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Greeley, Horace (1811-1872)

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From: American Eras
Date: 19970101
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Horace Greeley (1811-1872)

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The Written Word. Horace Greeley was born into a poor family in Amherst, New Hampshire, in 1811. Greeley ’ s father always struggled and could not provide his son with much in the way of an education, but Greeley took advantage of the family ’ s few William Shakespeare works, and his early apprenticeship as a printer with the Northern Spectator of East Poultney, Vermont, gave him exposure to the news of the day. Not long after the Nothern Spectator failed in 1830, Greeley stuffed his possessions into ...

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