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HORACE GREELEY

BY

WHITELAW REID

NEW YORK

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

1879

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HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

FROM

THE BEQUEST OF
EVERT JANSEN WENDELL

1918

COPYRIGHT, 1879, BY
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

TROW'S

PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY,
205-213 East Twelfth Street,

NEW YORK.

HORACE GREELEY.

HORACE GREELEY, an eminent American editor, was born at Amherst, New Hampshire, February 3, 1811. His parents were of ScotchIrish descent, but the ancestors of both had been in New England for several generations. He was the third of seven children. His father, Zaccheus Greeley, owned a farm of fifty acres of stony, sterile land, from which a bare support was wrung. 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 being the prodigy of the neighborhood for accurate spelling. Before he was ten years old his father, through bad management and indorsing for his neighbors, became bankrupt, and his home was sold by the sheriff, while Zaccheus Greeley himself fled the State to escape arrest for debt. The family soon removed to West Haven, Vt.,

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