Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-12-03
Horace Greeley is Dead.

insane nOsplIhi near MS rebluence hJ
Chappaqua on Friday evening last,
aged near 62 years. There is moth
ing more sad TO contemplate than
the wreck Of noble mind, the death
Of an eminent citizen. The death of
Horace Greeley will be sincerely
mourned all over the land. No name
is more familiar to the public mind
than that Of Horace Greeley. The
acts of no public man are more gen.
orally known than those Of the la
mented editor. Bot the errors Of
his life are forgotten in the memory
OF his great and good aud benevolent
deeds. "Courting the favor and
deprecating the wrath of no man"
was the lifelong motto of Horace
Greeley. His opinions and conclu>
sions, fearlessly given, upon any
great question Of the day have often
fallen like shock upon the pablo
mind, but have in the main been ac-
oepted as correct aud in the interest
OF the Iaboring or oppressed classes.
TIE story Of his life for a year past
Is we'll known and needs no review
AZ this time.
Mr.. Greeley's disease was organic
affection of the brail. In letter to
a gentlemen in Chicago, after the
death Of his wife and since the elects
ion, he said that he had no desire to
live, and his utterAnce jus before he
became deerious, six days ago,
shows "A complete breaking down of
mind a. body. "The country is
gone, the Tribune is gone, and | am
gone" were his words, which indi-
cate the terrible depression of mind
which destroyed him. The foIlowin g
brief sketch of Mr.. Greeley's life is
added:
Horace Greeley was born 10 Am.
herst, New Hampshire, February Sd,
1911. His father was farmer, and
Horace was an eager and apt boy in
the acquisition of knowledge. By
tho time he was 10 years old he is
aid to have read, chiefly by the
ight of pine knots, every book that
40 could borrow within seven miles
Of his fathers house; and be early de-
termined to enter "the poor boys
college" a printing office.
At the age Of ten years no remov-
ed with his father, to West Haven,
VI, and working on the farm until
fifteen, when he entered the Office of
the Northern Spectator, at East Poult-
ney, w., as an apprentice. He be-
came the best workman in the Office
there, and occasionally assisted in ed
ting tho paper, until his goth year,
whom it was discontinued. lie then
went to Erie, Pennsylvania where
his parents we're living and worked
therc, and at jamestown and Lodi,
Now York, "a j0urneyman, for a
short time. In 1871 be entered New
York poor printer, with but ten dol
lars in his pocket. Here he worked
ut the case till January /, 1888, when
he formed partnership with Fran
cis Story and established the Morning
Post, the first penny daily ever pub
lished. 1t lived but three weeks
In March, 1884, he established the
Nsto Yorker, a weekly, but it did not
furnish much income and he wrote
for the daily Wing and in 1888 3 he
edited Wing weekly at Albany call
ed the JeferSonidn,
In 1910 he edited the Log Cabin, a
paper of wide circulation which Wig
orOusly advocated the election OF
HARRISON and Tyler. Ga the 10Th OF
April, lS4l, no cemmenced the publ.
cation Of the New York Tribune, dai-
ly, and in the fall of that year be
merged his other two pape into the
Weekly Tribune.
He served in Congress from De-
cember ], 1S4S, until March 4, 1S49,
and devoted himself chiefly to attack
ing the abuses Of the mileage system.
He often lectured on subjects affect
ing the welfare Of the laboring class
e., and published his lectures and es-
says in 1850, in a volume entitled
"Hints Toward Reforms" In 1851
he visited Europe, and was one of the
iurymen at the Crystal Palace Exhi-
bition. He published volume emit
tied "Glances at Europe" on his re-
turn. In 1856, published History
Of tho Struggle for Slavery Extension
or Restriction from 1887 to 1856"
In 1856 he visited California trav-
eliugoverland and delivering address
es At the principal towns through
which nc passed. In 1864 he pub
lished history called The American
Conflict" and has since written
What know About Farming and
his autobiography entitled "Recolleo-
tons Of Busy Life"
The remains of the deceased were
carried to New York last Saturday
eve, accompanied by his two afliet-
ed daughters, and deposited at Mr..
Sinolair's residence. Hundreds OF
friends applied for admittance, but
policeman allowed none to enter.
The remains will lie in state, either
at the City Hall, or at Rev. DR.. Cha
pins church. He will DO buried in
Greenwood, where his wife and three
small children already lie inferred.
The Trustees of the Tribune, st q
meeting on Saturday, appointed
Messrs. Sinclair, Reid ard Cleveland
to take charge of all arrangements
for tho funeral. They have fixed
it for Wednesday at IL A. NJ from
the Church Of the Divine Paternity,
Rev, DR.. Chapin's, where Mr.. Gree.