The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1872-12-04
DEATH or HORACE eREELEr.

Horace Greeley died on the BOT.
ult., Mt the house Of DIR. Choate, Pleas
nntville, n. Y. The news of his death
east q gloom over all, Republican:
and Democrats alike. Whatever act:
of his later life may have been oh.
noxious to any portion of the people
all sincerely mourn his departure
recognizing in him the friend of labor
and humanity. 1t is believed that
the exhausting lsbors of the late cam.
paign, combined with the shock of his
wife's death caused his heretofore great
constitution to give way. Weappend
a short biographical sketch of Mr..
Greeley:
Horace Greeley, was born in Am.
hearst, New Hampshire, in February,
1911, and was the son of a poor far.
mer, removed to Vermont in 1921.
He learned the art Of printing at
East Poultney, VT, where he worked
at his trade the four years from 1926
to 1880. After leaving Vermont he
went to Erie, Pa, where he worked in
the office of the Gazette during the
sickness of regular employee Of that
Office. Being out of employment
there he started on foot to Buffalo,
when he took a caual-boat for New
York, in which city he arrived on the
18th of August, 1881. He was then
employed as jourDeyman printer for
fourteen months, when he became a
partner of Francis Story, in 1888, in
the Morning Post, the first daily pen
ny paper ever published. 1t lasted
only few weeks, but was succeeded
by the Ne,o Yorker, Greeley & Co.,
weekly literary journal. This contin-
ued seven years. In 1886 he married
Miss Cheny, who died but few days
before the recent presidential election.
From March, 1888, to March, 1889,
he edited the JeforsOnidi,, a weekly
whig paper. In May, 1910, he began
to publish The Log Cabin, q Gen.
Harrison paper, which attained to
circulation of $4,000 during the cam
paign. In April, 1S41, he founded
the Tribune, price one cent, of which
Henry j. Raymond was assistant edi-
tor. The history of that paper is suf.
ficiently well.known to need no men,
ton here, further than that it is the
finest monument that could be erected
TO his memory. He was always O
whig in politics, even when working
mt the case, before he went to New
York. In religion he was a Univer.
salist. His hostility to slavery and
his advocacy of temperance are equal.
ly well-known to every school-boy in
tho land He was elected to Congress
in 1913 to fill vacancy for a term
which expired in 1849. In 1850 he
published "Hints toward Reform"
which consisted Of series of articles
on temperance, education, labor, etc.
lie had worldwide reputation for
his championship of labor, for the
emancipation of which he ever was at
work early and late. Having visited
Europe in 1851, he published a vol.
ume on his return, entitled "Glances
at Europe" When the republican
party came into existance he support
ed it, as he had done the wings, with
all his extraordinary power till about
two years ego, when his first detection
was suspected by his opposition to the
"two-term" policy and by his advoca-
cy of leniency for the South. On the
Sd of May last he was nominated by
the convention at Cincinnati for the
Presidency. Accepting the nomina.
tion, he retired from the editorial
chair of the Tribune as his equivocal
position on the tariff question was not
such as he had held in that paper for
years. During the canvass, and but
few days before the November election,
Mrs. Greeley died an affliction which
doubtless was more trying to him than
his defeat for the presidency. Upon
the close of the canvass, Mr.. Greeley
resumed his former position on the
Tribune but evidently he had run his
race.