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passed in New York city, was New Engls nder |
by birth, New Hampshire being the state of his |
nativity. He was born OF Scotch Irish parens |
in Amherst county. OF that state. and at the |
time of his death was about 90 years of age. |
Mr.. Greeiey's father, although a man of excel |
lent sense, had great faculty for getting along
in the world, and after eultiyating his far IN for
sc me eight or ten years, he found himself hope-
lessly in debt. His creditors seized everything,
the sheriff sold him out of house and home, and |
he emigrated In 1871 to the state of Vermont in |
the boIe of be ttering his fortunes. Here Horace
assisted his father the farm, and spent all his
spare time in reading and study; in fact, he was
hardly ten years old before he had read hv the
1gnt OF pine knots everv look within a
After tSres Is of his fathers residence.
in years of rough work in the woods
:" ..rmont, Horace, then fifteen years OF age,
went into the Office of the Northern Spectator
at East POuitney, as an apprentice to learn the
moved to Erie county Pa, where for the rest of
his life was a plain, industrious farmer. Me-.
Greeley became an expert printer, and at the
age Of twenty went in the office Of the Erie
PA Gazette for year, and then turning his
face eastw he started out to seek his fortune.
He arrived in New York August IL, 1881. All
bis worldly goods were tied up In hsndker.
chief. After tramping around two days, and
visiting nearly all the printing offices in the
city, without success, Mr.. Greeley was en-
ployed; " and thus, when barely three days q
During the next year Mr.. Greeley worked in q
half dozen Offices, and in the autumn Of 1882
made pedestrian tour through part Of New
England. Returning to New York, Mr.. feeley
worked q few months at book printing, and
then entering partnership with : young man
named Story. who had no more capital than
account. The first venture was the publicasien
of daily paper called the Morning Post
which lasted one month. The young partners
managed to keep their presses going in working
off such little jobs az were sent them, Mr..
Greeley generally doing the composition. The
the first number of the New Yorker was pub
lished. Mr.. Greeley now launched into edito-
rial life, and for seven years and half pub
lshed a vigorous and influential paper. The
disastrous commercial reyulsiOn eff 1887 came
near sweeping it ont Of existence. He strug-
gled on till September q, 1871, when the New
Yorker was stopped. His subscribers and adver-
Users owed him SIC, 900. which they never paid
Mr.. Greeley was married July Is, 1896, in I'm
manuel Church, Warrenton, North Carolina,
by Rev. VIM. Norwood, to Miss Mary Y.
Cheney, OF WarrentOn, formerly of New York.
His wife was by profession a teacher. The lady
is unde rstOod to have possessed high intellectual
endowments, and her domestic virtues must
have been great to have secured 81 CHI profound
and permanent devotion as Mr.. g. eeley showed
to her. In 1910 he edited the Log Cabin, de-
voted to the election OF William Henry Harri-
lished the Daily Tribune, and shortly after
wards the Weekly Tribune, in which was
merged the New Yorker and the Log Cabin;
nato 1ns nus Us lame as an edtor
I'LL vacancy. He served in that body from
December let Of that year to March 4th, 1919,
and was chiefly distinguished for his OPP
In 1850 he published volume Of essays and lee.
tures under the title of "Hints towards Re-
FORM" In 1851 he went to Europe, and during
his stay in England served as one OF the jury.
men ut the Crystal Palace exhibition. After
his return he published volume entitled
"Giances at Europe" In 1856 he published a
"HistOry Of the Struggle for Slavery Extension
or Restriction in the United States from 1857 to
1856" His more recent books are the "HistOry
of the Great Rebellion" and "What Know or
plains to California, and was received in San
Francisco by the municipal authorities. While
there he lectured on temperance, the Pacific
railroad ana Politics. MI. Greeley, in 1850. at
from Oregon, and supported for the nomination
for the Presidency Judge Edmund Bates, OF
Missouri; In February, 1861, Mr. Greeley was
represent the state of New York in the Senate
of the United States. His rival was VIM. NJ.
Evsrts, the distinguished lawyer. On the tenth
for Judge Ira Harris, of Albany, which secured
his nomination. Mr.. Greeleys history since, in
Guiding his course during the war, his bsiling of
jefferson Davis, and his nomination tor the
Presidency by the Cincinnati and Baltimore
conventions, Is too fresh in the public mind to
need more extended mention in this article
MI Greeley's abstraction is well illustrated by
his biographer who says that he often looked up
from his work, asking an associate whether he
had been to dinner, and was governed entirely
by the answer, whether in earnest or q quiz on
his known peculiarly. One Of the most singular
events Of his life happened in Paris, France
where he was imprisoned for debt few days,
and OF which he gives most graphic account
The debt was not one Of his own, but OF the New
York Crystal Palace Association, Of which he
was one Of the managers.
Although q man of no great learning, and de.
hctent in that technical education which can
only be acquired ct the universities and higher
schools, he was perhaps the best political writer
of his generation, and mSnufactured moro pub
lie sentiment, and had . larger influence in
moulding public opinion than any man America
has ever produced, Franklin alone excepted.
Mr.. Greeley had some infirmities and weak
nesses, but upon the whole he led q pure, manly
and upright life. He was temperate, and, In
some respects, austere in his habits He vas a
most devoted and faithful husband, and Il Is
more than probable that the decease Of his
faithful partner, five weeks ago, FASTENED his
own.
Mr.. Greeley's religious belief was that
or Unitarian Restorationist. He saws
in letter to the Rev. j. n. ustin: "I believe
that the moral character formed in this life viii
be that In which We shall awake In the life to
come, and that many die 60 deeply stained and
tainted by lives Of transgression and depravity
that tedious and painful discipline must pre-
cede and prepare for their admission to the
realms or eternal purity and bliss"
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