Nathan C. Meeker papers, 1843-1951 [manuscript].

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Nathan C. Meeker papers, 1843-1951 [manuscript].

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The collection contains correspondence and personal papers related to the Meeker family and Nathan Meeker's establishment and running of the Union Colony of Colorado (1847-1922). Of special interest is the correspondence received by Meeker from Horace Greeley (1850-1872) concerning the financial and administrative operations of the colony. Microfilm reels contain additional papers found at the Greeley Municipal Museum, Greeley, Colo. including Meeker family correspondence (1843-1897) and the Union Colony of Colorado land records, correspondence, court records, scrapbooks and news clippings (1870-1951).

.5 linear ft. (1 box), 1 oversize box, 2 microfilm reels

Denver Public Library, Central Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6821685

Denver Public Library, Central Library

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Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872

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Horace Greeley (February 3, 1811 – November 29, 1872) was an American newspaper editor and publisher who was the founder and 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 unsuccessful candidate of the new Liberal Republican party in the 1872 presidential election against incumbent President Ulysses S. Grant, who won by a landslide. Greeley was born to a poor family in Amherst, New ...

Union Colony of Colorado

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Meeker, Ralph, 1845-

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Meeker, Arvilla Delight Smith, 1815-1905

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Meeker, Nathan Cook, 1814-1879

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Colorado pioneer, Nathan Cook Meeker was born in Ohio in 1817. He worked as a newspaperman, traveling salesman and teacher throughout the United States. Meeker was selected by Horace Greeley, editor of the New York Tribune, to found the agricultural community known as the Union Colony of Colorado at present day Greeley, Colo. Greeley provided major funding for the colony. Based on utopian and religious ideals, the organization was established in 1869 with approximately 700 colonists and was know...

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