Bisbee daily review., 1911-02-04
HORACE GREELEY IF ME ENARY
 OBSERVED
Leaders in All Walks ia New York Join in Doing
 Honor

fAs r D. dreth anniversary of the birth of Horace Greeley, greatest of all Amer iean journalists. was fitly observed to- day by appropriate exercises in the public schools of the state and by memorial gatherings under the aus pices of various institutions of learn ing throughout the state. Special cele- brations were held under the auspices of the City club and by Typographical Union No 6, whose first president Horace Greeley was. Large crowds visited Greeley's old farm at Chap pagua. Westchester county, where ne lived during the latter and most eventful part of his life
 Horace Greeley was born on a farm hve miles from Amherst, N. H., on February, 1S11 His father was poor and Horace had little opportunity to obtain more than the most primitive education. As a A.Aall bay Horace Greeley vas an omnivorous reader and with the aid of sa excellent mem oTy he succeeded in acquiring not only a thorough knowledge of the English language, but large amount of heterogeneous information, which proved of great value to him in later
 At the age of fifteen he entered the office Of The Northern Spectator at East Poultney. Vt. as an apprentice He seemed to be born to the trade and soon he was the best printer in the shop. It might also be added that even ct this time he was a better journalist than ;the editor of that paper until it died from lack of sup port five years later. During those years he sent the greater part of his nteager wages to his father. who had removed to farm near Erie,Pa.
 After the Spectator had suspended. Greeley worked his way to his fathers farm, earning as much as he could on the way by working for a few weeks | at time on different newspapers After a few months he made his way 10 New York He arrived there with but few cents in his pocket, no oth- CT clothes except those he wore, but eager Pnd ambitious to become great 1 journalist. For eighteen mouths be worked as compositor at poorly paid odd jobs. then. together with another young compositor he opened a print. ing office. After one or two unsuc. eessflil efforts to start a newspaper, Greeley, in 1884, undertook the publi- cation of a weekly literary journal called The New Yorker Two years later the paper had 7.500 subscribers. The panic of the following year nearly caused the suspension of The New Yorker and it was on it's last ! legs when. in 1888 Thurlow Weed made made Greeley editor of tho ! JefTeIE Saian. a Wnig paper estab lished in Albany during the campaign that ended in the election of William Ii. Seward as governor of New York As editor of that paper Greeley be
 came prominent figure in Stat.
 affairs and although he was onl. 2 years of age. he was recognized a. one of the strongest political writer. of the day.
 Two years later Greeley was ehoseI
 to edit the Log Cabin, the Whis campaign paper of 1S40. His success increased Greeley's prestige and gave Linn the courage to establish q news
 paper of his own. April 1G.1S41 va.
 the birthday of the New York Fri
 bune, which under his management and direction became one Of tn
 greatest newspapers in the countr.
 and a great political power The sub
 sequent history of Greeley was in sepaTably linked to that of the New York Tribune. at the head of whicl
 he remained for thirty years, sever
 ing his connection with that jOurna only few days before his death
 which occurred on November g, 1872
 Il would be dif1cHit to overestimat'
 the influence which was yielded b.
 the pen Of Horace Greeley He hal
 courage and he had an honest cor
 science and these were backed by mastery of incisiTe, clear English He was brought to the intense hostil ify 10 slavery that eliminated iE r
 birth Of the republican party and tn emancipation proclamation of Abrs ham Lincoln was, in large measure
 due to the editorial co.amns of tn
 New York Tribune.
 Greeley never held public ofiic , but one. when he filled an unexpirel term in congress for a few weeks
 He was nominated for the presidenc. by the democrats and the liberal re [ Imblicans in 1872. but was oyerwhelm ingly defeated by Grant. The intens,
 disappointment of his defeat. follow ing the death of his wife in Seytem
 Der of the ssme year and the tremend
 oHs eexertion of the campaign causel
 his collapse and his sudden deat
 from brain fever on November 2: IS-2