Horace Greeley
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: The 19th Century
- Categories: Education, Literature, Publishing, Social Issues, Reform, and Protest
- Subcategories: Civil Rights, Minority Rights, Minorities, Teaching, Teachers, Media, Journalism, Journalists
- Curriculum: American History 1816-1855, American Civil War & Reconstruction Era (1856-1877)
Article abstract: A daring journalist and lecturer, Greeley engaged himself personally with a wide range of social issues—labor rights, abolitionism, territorial expansion, women’s rights, and political reform—and his paper, the New York Tribune, became a medium for the best thought of his time.
Early Life
Horace Greeley’s ancestors were among the founding families of New England, having arrived in 1640. The third of seven children of Zaccheus and Mary (Woodburn) Greeley, he was a frail boy, uncoordinated, with a very large head on a small frame....
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