The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1872-12-06
She Marietta 5onrnal.
Marietta, Georgia, November 20, 1872
DEATH OF HoEAcn GREELEY.
A short Sketch Of His Life.

horace UreeIeY, uleu III NSW
York, last Friday evening, at Z
o'clock, without pain, peacefully and
nationally.
Horace Greeley was born at AM
bert, New Hampshire, July 3, 1911,
and consequently was nearly sixty
three years old when he died. He
was the third of seven children of
Zaccheus Greeley, a respectable
farmer. of Scotch Irish lineage
Horace Greeley was an uncom-
monty smart and precocious child,
and manifested at very early age
unmistakable signs Of intelligence.
His first instructor was his mother,
and never was a mother better cal
culated to awaken the mind of a
child and keep it awake, than Mrs
Greeley.
She was tall. muscular, and well
formed, active in her habits, and ca
pable of hard out door work, with a
perpetual flow of animal spirits
She hoed in the garden, labored in
the field, laughing and singing all
the day long, and then told stories
to her children in tho evening
These stories Mr.. G. said, seemed
"to awaken in me a thirst for knowl-
edge and lively interest in learn
ing and history"
AT fifteen Mr.. Geeeloy entered the
office of Mr.. Bliss, at Poultney, YER
mont, where he remained four years
on a salary of forty dollars per year
and his board, and then went to
Erie Pennsylvania, when he became
a journeyman printer. Here he re-
manned seven months, during which
period he spent six dollars on his
personal expenses. He received
his pay in fifteen dollars in money
and balance in a note, which he
gave to his father, and started to
New York with the money,
Reaching New York he entered a
boarding house and began to look for
employment, and soon obtained
work. He worked at various times
at the Evening Post, the CONNER
cial Advertiser, from which office he
was dismissed on account of his awk-
ward appearance, then in the cam
ulet" until it was discontinued.
In 1888, DR.. Sheppard and Hor-
ace Greeley, and Mr.. Story started
the Morning Post, two cent paper,
on the united capital of $50. 1t
failed in three weeks, sinking about
sixty dollars. On the 22d of March
1884, he and Story started the New
Yorker, with one hundred subscrib-
ers. The second number had sale
of two hundred copies. In Septem-
Der the circulation was twenty five
hundred, and the second volume be-
gan with forty five hundred.
In 1871, Mr.. Greeley established
the Tribune on one thousand dollars
Of capital, loaned to him by James
Coggershall, and the evident need of
Just such paper as the Tribune.
The Tribune continued to have
great success until July, 1915, when
the Tribune building was burned
down. The mail books were, how
ever, saved. An Office was rented
temporarily, type was borrowed, all
hands went to work, and the paper
appeared next day as usual, and the
number was one of the best in that
volume. In three months the office
was rebuilt, and provided with every
facility for daily paper. Finally
it was the greatest newspaper sue
cess of the age, and the little printer
boy, Horace Greeley, became one of
the greatest and most influential men
Of the United States. He was elect
ed to Congress in 1848, and from
that date to his nomination for the
Presidency by The Liberal Republi-
can party his course has been well
known.
He is dead, and thus presses away
one of the most remarkable men of
this age, who, if he had been
spared, would have done the South
great service in defending her with
his mighty pen against her traducers