Horace Greeley collection, 1826-1972.

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Horace Greeley collection, 1826-1972.

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Papers of Greeley and his family, especially his daughter Gabrielle Greeley Clendenin and her family, and materials relating to the life and career of Greeley. Original papers of Horace Greeley include several letters from Greeley and his wife Mary Cheney Greeley to her family, 1838-1849; twenty-one letters between Greeley and his friend Margaret Allen; a copy of a letter from Abraham Lincoln to Greeley, 1864; and miscellaneous bills, receipts, and legal papers. Papers of Gabrielle Greeley and her husband Rev. Dr. Frank M. Clendenin include correspondence, scrapbooks, autograph books, photographs, deeds, receipts, legal papers, and genealogy pertaining to their family life, Greeley's property in Chappaqua, Dr. Clendenin's theological interests and duties, the death of their daughter Muriel, the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, and their Stahl relatives. Other items include manuscript copies done by Gabrielle Clendenin of Greeley's letters, 1847-1872; transcript of Greeley's apprenticeship agreement, 1826; an 1895 letter concerning an earlier assassination plot on Greeley's life; and clippings; articles, pamphlets, speeches, and memorabilia concerning the life and career of Horace Greeley, ca. 1850-1972.

5 cubic ft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6881822

New York State Historical Documents Inventory

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New Castle Historical Society (Chappaqua, N.Y.)

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Greeley (1811-1872) was the editor of the New York TRIBUNE, an abolitionist, and Presidential candidate in 1872. He and his family lived on their farm in Chappaqua, which he bought in 1852-1853, into the 1930s. From the description of Horace Greeley collection, 1826-1972. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155540108 Collecting area: History of the Town of New Castle. Will also accept Horace Greeley items. From the description of Repository description. (Unknown). Wor...

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 ...

Church of Saint Mary the Virgin (New York, N.Y.)

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Greeley, Mary Young Cheney, 1811-1872

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Clendenin, Frank M.

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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky-died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the sixteenth President of the United States from 1861 until his death by assassination. He was the son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Thomas Lincoln, and Nancy Hanks. In 1816, Lincoln moved to Pigeon Creek, Indiana, where he worked on his family's farm. Following his mother's death two years later, he continued working on farms until moving with his father to New Sa...

Clendenin, Muriel.

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Allen, Margaret (Margaret Ellen), 1947-

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Clendenin, Gabrielle Greeley.

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