Cheney family deeds and financial records, 1804-1877.

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Cheney family deeds and financial records, 1804-1877.

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Deeds for land in Litchfield, Connecticut, purchased by Silas E. Cheney and his son Silas, and bought and sold by his wife Mary Cheney. Two deeds to Mary, dated 1851, are signed by Horace Greeley, her son-in-law. An indenture, 1819, apprentices Heman Whites to the elder Silas to learn the craft of chairmaking.

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Connecticut Historical Society

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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 ...

Cheney family.

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