Who is horace greeley?
The son of poor farmers Zaccheus and Mary Greeley was born in Amherst, NH’s farm country. His schooling was intermittent, but he was an enthusiastic reader. He declined a scholarship to Phillips Exeter Academy and left school at the age of 14. At age 15 he was apprenticed to a printer in Poultney, Vermont and began learning a trade he would follow, in one form or another, for the remainder of his life. In 1831 Greeley settled in New York City and quickly became involved in a number of publishing ventures, including the New Yorker (1834), a weekly which was mostly comprised of clippings from other magazines that dealt with current events, the arts and literature. In 1836 Greeley married Mary Cheney Greeley, an intermittent suffragette. Horace Greeley spent as little time as possible with his wife and would sleep in a boarding house when in New York City rather than be with her. Only two of their seven children survived into adulthood. The New York Tribune, one of the earliest “penny dai
