Horace Greeley (1811 - 1872)

Born 3 Feb 1811 in Amherst, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Mary Young (Cheney) Greeley — married 5 Jul 1836 in Warren County, North Carolina, USA

Descendants

Died 29 Nov 1872 at age 61 in New York City, New York County, New York, United States

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Biography

Horace Greeley is Notable.

Horace Greeley was a part of the Abolitionist Movement.

Horace Greeley was editor of the New-York Tribune, among the great newspapers of its time. Long active in politics, he served briefly as a congressman from New York, and was the candidate of the Democratic and Liberal Republican parties in the 1872 presidential election. He was defeated by President Ulysses S. Grant, and died before the casting of the electoral vote.^[1]

He founded the Tribune, which through weekly editions sent by mail became the highest-circulating newspaper in the country. Among many other issues, he urged the settlement of the American West, which he saw as a land of opportunity for the young and the unemployed. He popularized the phrase "Go West, young man, and grow up with the country," although it is uncertain whether it originated with him.^[1]

He backed Presidential nominee Abraham Lincoln. When the Civil War broke out, he mostly supported Lincoln, though urging him to commit to the end of slavery before the president was willing to do so. After Lincoln's assassination, he supported the Radical Republicans in opposition to President Andrew Johnson.^[1]

"Greeley had a long, but unhappy, marriage to Mary Cheney Greeley, a sometime Suffragette. Mary Cheney Greeley believed in spirits and was a rigorous adherent of The Graham Diet. Mrs. Greeley doted on one son to the extent that an infant daughter died from neglect. The eventual death of that son was devastating to Mrs. Greeley. Horace Greeley spent as little time as possible with his wife and would sleep in a boarding house when in New York City. After the death of the Greeley couple. the two daughters found thousands of dollars worth of china, objets d'art, and finery under covers in the basement." ^[2]

Legacy

• Greeley County, Kansas and Greeley County, Nebraska are named in his honor, as is the city of Greeley in Weld County, Colorado.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Horace Greeley at Wikipedia Wikidata: Item Q436790
2. ↑ Horace Greeley at Nationmaster

• Rourke, Constance. Trumpets of Jubilee (Harcourt, Brace & Co., New York, 1927) Page 241-365
• Horace Greeley on Wikipedia
• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 20 July 2020), memorial page for Horace Greeley (3 Feb 1811–29 Nov 1872), Find A Grave: Memorial #414, citing Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings County (Brooklyn), New York, USA ; Maintained by Find A Grave .

From behind the ancestry.com subscription wall:

• North Carolina Marriage Index, 1836
• US Census, 1850
• US Passport Application, 1851
• US Census, 1860
• US Census, 1870
• New York, Wills & Probate, 1872

Acknowledgments

• Thank you to Frank Turscak for creating WikiTree profile Greeley-165 through the import of TurscakFTM_081905_0300.GED on Nov 11, 2013. Click to the Changes page for the details of edits by Frank and others.