Background
Greeley, Horace was born on February 3, 1811 in Amherst, New Hampshire, United States. Son of Zaccheus and Mary (Woodburn) Greeley.
Greeley, Horace was born on February 3, 1811 in Amherst, New Hampshire, United States. Son of Zaccheus and Mary (Woodburn) Greeley.
Editor The Jeffersonian, 1838, Log Cabin, 1840 (both Whig campaign papers). Editor and publisher weekly New York Tribune (merger Log Cabin and New Yorker1841 ), 1841-1872. Delegate New York State Constl.
He founded the New Yorker, a weekly literary and news journal
Greeley founded the Tribune, New York's first daily penny paper of Whig opinion, and later he merged the New Yorker and the Log Cabin with the Tribune.
His advice to Josiah Bushnell Grinnell (1821-1891), "Go west, young man, go west," has become a well-known saying.
Member United States House of Representatives (Whig, filled vacancy) from New York, 30th Congress, December 4, 1848-1849.
Married Mary Young Cheney, July 5, 1836, 7 children including Gabriella, Idaho.
