Greeley
a city of Colorado, the county-seat of Weld co.
Union Pacific, the Denver, Laramie and Northwestern, and the Colorado and Southern railroads, and on the Cache la Poudre river. It is the center of an important agricultural and cattle region.
It has a large trade in potatoes, flour, wheat, etc. Its industries include lumber Teachers' College, and has a yards, flour mills, and a beet-sugar fac- Pop. tory. The city is the seat of the State ace Greeley, which was the first agriculbrary and two parks. It was the site of the "Greeley Colony," named after Hortural community in Colorado. (1910) 8,179; (1920) 10,883. public lijournalist; born in Amherst, N. H., Feb. journalist; born in Amherst, N. H., Feb. ice, and in August, 1831, arrived 3, 1811. About 1825, his parents having removed to Vermont, Horace obtained employment as an apprentice in a printing office, at New York, where he secured occasional work as a journeyman printer in HORACE GREELEY various offices. In 1834, in partnership he started "The New Yorker," a weekly literary journal, which proving unprofitable, was abandoned, and in 1841 he commenced the publication of the New York "Tribune." In 1848 he became a memmenced the publication of the New York "Tribune." In 1848 he became a mem- GREELY visited Europe, and was chosen chairman of one of the juries of the Great Exhibition in London. He wrote: "Hints Toward Reforms," "History of the Struggle for Slavery Extension" (1856); "The American Conflict" (1864-1866); "Recollections of a Busy Life" (1868).
He ardently supported the Union cause during the Civil War. In 1872 he was nominated by the Democratic party a candidate for the presidency in opposition to General Grant, but he failed to be elected. He died in Pleasantville, Westchester co., N. Y., Nov. 29, 1872.