Weekly Trinity journal., 1872-05-25
HORACE GREELEY.

The man whom the Liberal Rcpub-
licuns at Cincinnati selected to be their
standard bearer in the ensuing political
campaign is in every sense of the word
self-made." His father, Zaccheus Gree
ley, was Il poor New Hampshire farmer,
who was only able to give him the ad-
vantages of a common-school education,
and very little or that. But his energy,
ambition, and capacity supplied all def
ciencieS, and enabled him to push his
way from obscurity to the prominent po-
sition he now occupies. Horace Greeley
was born in Amherst, New Hampshire
on the 3d of February, 1911. He was n
rather feeble child, and for years suffered
from want of physical strength rather
than from any positive disease. He lived
with his parents in New Hampshire un-
til the lst of Fcbruay, 1921, going to
school little and working on the farm
great deal, when, in consequence of his
fathers failure and the enforced sale of
his farm, the whole family went to West
Haven, Vermont. Here he was distin-
guished at school by the readiness with
which he absorbed knowledge.
After about five years farm experience
in West Haven, where each season proved
n worse failure than its predecessor, he
became an apprentice in newspaper Of
fee, 7He Northern Spectator, ut East
Poultney, Vermont.
Mr.. Greeley remained four years nt
East Poultney, doing the hard work of
an apprentice with credit. He went
thence to visit his father in Chautauquu
county, New York, and subsequently
worked ut his trade in jamestown, Lodi
and Erie. But work in small towns was
scarce, and, after vain searching for per-
manent employment, the young printer
started for New York city. lie went by
canal-boat from Buffalo to Schnectady,
and thence footing it over the old turn
pike, he reached Albany, where he took
passage in tow boat for Now York.
Here he landed August II, 1881. Work
was the thing first in order, and after a
short search he found it with II printer in
Chatham Street.
Mr.. Greeley made his first business ven
turc in New York as partner in daily
paper called the MorHing Post, started
January l., 1893, by II. d. Sheppard.
The paper lived about month. In
March, 1884, he made his first visible
mark in journalism by issuing the Nc,O
Yorker, a large and handsome weekly
paper devoted TO literature and news.
Here, for the first time, he began TO use n
pen as well as types, and in short time
became widely known as writer, Two
years after starting this paper Mr.. Gree
ley married. Five children have been
born to him, Of whom two boys and one
girl died at early ages.
While publishing the NeW Yorker Mr..
Greeley made his debut as II political
writer in 1893, on n small campaign pa
per called the Je6ersOnidn, and in the
Harrison campaign as the editor of the
Log Cdbin. On the 10th Of April, lS4l,
the day on which the people observed
the funeral of President Harrison, Mr..
Greeley, almost moneylcss and unaided,
issued the first number of the New York
tribune.
In 1913 Mr.. Greeley was elected to
fiji Il vacancy, and served from Decem-
Der Of that year till March 4, lSl9. His
Congressional career was not n brilliant
one, and was chiefly distinguished by his
vigorous assault upon the mileage sys-
TEN. In 1850 he published volume of
political lectures and essays, under the
title Of "IIints toward Reform" The
following year he made II voyage TO Eu-
rope, and during his visit to England
served rs a juryman at the Crystal Pal
ace Exhibition. On his return he pub
lished v,lume entitled "Glimpses at
Europe" lis first contribution to polit-
cal literature was his History of the
| Strugg', for Slavery Extension and Re
striction from 1887 to 1856" the year OF
its publication. In 1859 Mr.. Greeley
paid visit to California, travelling over
land across the plains.
During the political excitement which
Immediately preceded the outbreak of the
Southern rebellion, Mr.. Greeley, in COM
mon with many prominent members of
the Democratic party, took the ground