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  Horace Greeley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Horace Greeley (February 3, 1811–November 29, 1872) was an American editor of a leading newspaper, a founder of the Republican party, reformer and politician.
Greeley was editor of the Tribune for the rest of his life, using it as a platform for advocacy of all his causes.
Greeley married in 1836, Mary Cheney Greeley, a sometime suffragette.
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 SPECTRUM Biographies - Horace Greeley
Horace Greeley was born February 3, 1811 on a farm near Amherst, New Hampshire.
Greeley was considered the outstanding newspaper editor of the day, and he edited the Tribune until his death.
Greeley had a life-long ambition to be elected to a high public office, and he felt that the Whig party was not supporting those ambitions.
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 NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Horace Greeley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Horace was a feeble and precocious lad, taking little interest in the ordinary sports of childhood, learning to read before he was able to talk plainly, and the prodigy of the neighborhood for accurate spelling.
Horace from childhood desired to be a printer, and, when barely eleven years old, tried to be taken as an apprentice in an office at Whitehall, New York, but was rejected on account of his youth.
Greeley dissented from many of Fouriers propositions, and in later years was careful to explain that the principle of association for the common good of working men and the elevation of labor was the chief feature which attracted him.
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 Horace Greeley (1811-1872)
Horace Greeley (February 3, 1811 - November 29, 1872) was an American newspaper editor and politician, known especially for his articulation of the North's vigorous antislavery sentiments during the 1850s.
Greeley, who produced a prodigious amount of high-quality editorial copy, came to be considered the outstanding newspaper editor of his time; his large and competent staff cooperated to make the paper a "political Bible" for many readers throughout the North.
The party nominated Greeley for president, and, in the dreary campaign that followed, Greeley was so mercilessly attacked that, as he said, he scarcely knew whether he was running for the presidency or the penitentiary.
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 Greeley, Horace. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Greeley’s interest in public questions led him to found (1834), with a new partner, the New Yorker, a weekly journal “devoted to literature, the arts and sciences,” which he edited ably but unprofitably for seven years.
From the first, Greeley’s object was to provide for the poor a paper that was as cheap as those of his rivals but less sensational and more probing than the “penny press.” Therefore, sensational police news and objectionable medical advertising were eliminated from the Tribune.
Greeley supported Ulysses S. Grant during the first years of his administration but came to resent what he considered Grant’s subservience to that wing of the Republican party in New York state dominated by Roscoe Conkling.
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 Horace Greeley
Horace Greeley, the son of a New England farmer and day laborer, was born in Amherst, New Hampshire in February 1811.
Greeley opposed slavery as morally deficient and economically regressive, and during the 1850s, he supported the movement to prevent its extension.
Greeley's free-soil sentiments brought him quickly into the Republican party's camp, and he attended the national organization meeting of the party at Pittsburgh in February 1856.
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 Horace Greeley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Abraham Lincoln paid attention to what Horace Greeley said; by the time of Lincoln's presidency, Horace Greeley was one of the most influential and respected newspapermen in the country.
Carl Sandburg described how 20-year-old Greeley arrived in New York "with $10 in his pocket, a greenhorn from Vermont farms who had picked up the trade of printer." Greeley went on to edit the New Yorker and the Log Cabin, and in 1841 he started the New York Tribune.
Horace Greeley was a supporter of Abraham Lincoln.
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 Horace Greeley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Horace Greeley (February 3, 1811–November 29, 1872) was an American newspaper editor and politician.
Greeley had requested a simple funeral, but his two surviving daughters ignored this request and arranged a grand affair.
Horace Greeley had a home in the hamlet of Chappaqua, New York in Westchester County.
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 Horace Greeley
Horace Greeley was born in New Hampshire, where he worked as a printer.
Horace suffered a nervous breakdown with the lost of his wife, loss of his paper, and the loss of the election.
Horace Greeley is buried in New York's Green-Wood Cemetery.
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 Horace Greeley
The American statesman and man of letters Horace Greeley was born at Amherst, New Hampshire, on the 3rd of February 1811.
Greeley became personally interested in one of the Fourierite associations, the North American Phalanx, at Red Bank, New Jersey (1843-1855), while the influence of his discussions doubtless led to or gave encouragement to other socialistic experiments, such as that at Brook Farm.
Greeley's political activity, first as a Whig, and then as one of the founders of the Republican party, was incessant; but he held few offices.
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 Horace Greeley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Horace Greeley (February 3 1811 - November 29 1872) was an American newspaper editor and politician.
Greeley is buried in New York's Green-Wood Cemetery.
Charles Dana and Greeley are ancillary players in the civil war drama; there's enough material on Grant and journalists to warrant a study of him...
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 MATHEW BRADY GALLERY, NY - Horace Greeley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
In 1869, Harper's Weekly called Horace Greeley "the most perfect Yankee the country has ever produced." Editor, politician, and founder of the New York Tribune, Greeley began his career as a Whig and in 1856 helped establish the new Republican Party.
Greeley advocated reform in every sphere, supporting temperance, Transcendentalism, labor unions, and scores of other, less significant causes.
This daguerreotype was made around 1851, when Greeley served on the jury for the exhibition in the Crystal Palace in London, where Brady's work earned a medal.
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 GREELEY, Horace (1811-1872) Bibliography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Horace Greeley’s views on Virginia: And what he knows about the South, slave-breeding, mixed schools, miscegenation, making sectional war, Kansas and the South, favoring secession, letting “the erring sisters go,” confiscation, rapine, and ravage, slave insurrections, supporting General Butler’s New Orleans order, the Ku—Klux trials, &c., &c., &c.
Greeley’s letters from Texas and the lower Mississippi: To which are added his address to the farmers of Texas, and his speech on his return to New York, June 12, 1871.
Horace Greeley; Founder of the “New York Tribune.” Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1926.
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 Horace Greeley
Horace Greeley was born in Amherst, New Hampshire in the farm country west of Nashua and Manchester.
Greeley was an early member of the Republican Party and, after initially supporting another candidate, helped to secure the nomination for Abraham Lincoln in 1860.
Horace Greeley was one of the most interesting and eccentric figures in American history.
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 Horace Greeley, Editor of the New York Tribune, Including His Lifelong Ties to the Universalist Church   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
In later life Molly Greeley was frequently ill and spent long periods abroad with her daughters while her husband toiled 18 hours a day at his newspaper.
Regarding his wife's irritability and unwillingness to entertain his friends and associates at their Chappaqua, NY home, Greeley once wrote to a friend that "Mother's sanity is not of the highest order." She died a few weeks before the 1872 election, leaving her husband prostrate with grief.
Greeley was active in church affairs as late as 1870, when he unsuccessfully argued for the establishment of a Universalist publishing house.
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 New England Press Association   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The HORACE GREELEY AWARD is presented by the New England Press Association in honor of Horace Greeley, one of the greatest and most dedicated journalists in the history of American journalism.
Horace Greeley, a native New Englander, was both a weekly and daily newspaper editor and publisher.
The HORACE GREELEY AWARD shall be considered an annual award, but the committee has the right not to present the award if, in the opinion of the committee, a suitable candidate has not been nominated.
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 Horace Greeley
Horace GREELEY - GREELEY, Horace (1811—1872) GREELEY, Horace, a Representative from New York; born in Amherst,...
Horace Greeley: Bibliography - Bibliography Greeley wrote The American Conflict (1866), a history of the Civil War, and the...
Horace Greeley: The Founding of the Tribune - The Founding of the Tribune His success in political journalism cemented Greeley's friendship with...
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 Horace Greeley: bio and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The new york tribune was established by horace greeley in 1841 and was long considered one of the leading newspapers in the united states....
Mary cheney greeley - wife of horace greeley 1811-1872 - the american newspaper editor....
Mary Cheney Greeley believed in spirits and was a rigorous adherent of The Graham Diet[For more info, click on this link].
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 Horace Greeley
Horace Greeley was born in Amherst, New Hampshire, on 3rd Fe bruary, 1811.
Greeley took a strong moral tone in his newspaper and campaigned against alcohol, tobacco, gambling, prostitution and capital punishment.
Greeley was highly critical of the presidency of Ulysses G. Grant and became associated with the Radical Republicans.
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 Horace Greeley
Greeley loved to read, and spent one year at Phillips Exeter before the family moved to Vermont, where he was appreniticed to a printer.
Greeley's wife died at this same time, he suffered a total breakdown, and died the same year.
Horace "Go West, young man" Greeley, founder of the New York Tribune and Republican candidate for president in 1872, was born in Amherst in 1811.
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 The Sylvania Association of Greeley, Pennsylvania. was one of the first "Utopian" Societies in the United States.
It appears Horace Greeley was the only member of the association to realize a profit from the failed experiment in socialized living.
Horace Greeley was not the leader or founder.
Horace Greeley died in a mental hospital at Pleasantville, New York on November 29, 1872.
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 NEW CASTLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY HORACE GREELEY HOUSE HISTORY
Horace Greeley House was built between 1852 and 1854 as part of the development of downtown Chappaqua after the arrival of the railroad.
Greeley first built a house on a wooded hillside in the southern part of the property.
Greeley's daughter Gabrielle retained possession of the farm and the house in the village.
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 Horace Greeley in TutorGig Encyclopedia
'Horace Greeley' (February 3, 1811– November 29, 1872) was an American newspaper editor and politician.
Greeley was an agrarian and supported liberal policies towards settlers: one of his famous phrases was " Go West, young man".
Horace Greeley, ''An Overland Journey from New York to San Francisco in the Summer of 1859''
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 HORACE GREELEY - LoveToKnow Article on HORACE GREELEY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Before Horace was ten years old (1820), his father became bankrupt, his home was sold by the sheriff, and Zaccheus Greeley him.,elf fled the state to escape arrest for debt.
On the 2nd of March 1834, Greeley and Winchester issued the first number of The New Yorker, a weekly literary and news paper, the firm theii supposing itself to be worth about $3000.
Greeley became personally interested in one of the Fourierite associations, the North American Phalanx, at Red Bank, N. (1843-1855), while the influence of his discussions doubtless led to or gave encouragement to other socialistic experiments, such as that at Brook Farm.
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 "When Horace Greeley Visited Kansas in 1859," by Martha Caldwell, Kansas Historical Quarterly, May, 1940
Greeley's stay in Leavenworth was necessarily brief at this time, for the party was compelled to push on in order to be in Osawatomie in time for the convention.
Greeley described Osawatomie as a village of at most one hundred and fifty houses, situated in the forks of the Marais des Cygnes and Pottawatomie, a somewhat smaller creek, which comes in from the southwest.
Other animals with whom Greeley had formed a "passing acquaintance" were the prairie wolf which he described as a "sneaking, cowardly little wretch," whose only feat entitling him to rank as beast of prey consisted in digging out a prairie-dog and making a meal of it when he was pressed by hunger.
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 HORACE GREELEY: LAND REFORM AND UNEMPLOYMENT, 1837-1862
Throughout 1844 and 1845 Greeley carefully watched the activities of Evans and his crusade to establish "the Right to Labor and the Right to the Soil." The reports of the workingmen's associations and their conversion to ; Land Reform were printed in the columns of the Tribune.
Greeley was more than lukewarm in his sympathy for the principles of these reformers.
Greeley caused much disruption in the Whig ranks by his refusal to support General Taylor, the Whig nominee; at the same time he bitterly attacked General Cass, the Democratic candidate, for his extensive speculation in western lands.
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 Horace Greeley Scholarship Fund
It is what defines the "Greeley Spirit." And it is in the same spirit that students who wanted to help their classmates with the expenses for college, which they could not receive elsewhere, created the Horace Greeley Education Fund (HGEF) in 1946.
Recently renamed the Horace Greeley Scholarship Fund, the Fund is a community grant-making fund whose sole purpose is to help HGHS students further their education.
I can assure you that your support for the HGSF in the same "Greeley Spirit" will not go unappreciated by the students and families who turn to this valuable resource as a means of making college a reality.
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 Mr. Lincoln's White House: Horace Greeley (1811-1872)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Greeley looked at the President as he declared that abolition of slavery was the "one sole purpose of the war." Congressman George Julian noted that Mr.
Greeley visited the White House less than some other prominent Republican editors, but his correspondence to and from the President was very important in defining public policy on the war and emancipation.
Greeley served briefly in Congress in 1848, winning strong enmity from his colleagues as a result of the Tribune's series exposing account padding—including that of Congressman Lincoln.
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