Greeley
Greeley names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Greeley HORACE, an American journalist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
HORACE, an American journalist; born in Amherst, N. H., Feb. 3, 1811. About 1825, his parents having removed to Vermont, Horace obtained employment as an apprentice in a printice, and in August, 1831, arrived ing office, at New York, where he secured occasional work as a journeyman printer in HORACE GREELEY various offices. In 1834, in partnership with Messrs. Winchester and Gibbett, 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 member of the 30th Congress; in 1851 he 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.
Greeley a city of Colorado
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a city of Colorado, the county-seat of Weld co. It is on the 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 yards, flour mills, and a beet-sugar factory. The city is the seat of the State Teachers' College, and has a public library and two parks. It was the site of the "Greeley Colony," named after Horace Greeley, which was the first agricultural community in Colorado. Pop. (1910) 8,179; (1920) 10,883.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
The Horace Greeley entry still stands: the dates, the founding of the New York "Tribune" in 1841, and the failed 1872 run against Grant are as Collier's had them in 1921. Two things have moved since. Greeley's paper did not outlast the century "the Tribune" merged with the Herald in 1924 and the New York Herald Tribune closed in 1966; and the phrase most Americans now attach to him, "Go West, young man," is generally credited to the Indiana editor John B. L. Soule rather than to Greeley himself. The Colorado city has changed out of recognition: the 10,883 residents of the 1920 census have become well over 100,000, the beet-sugar factory is long gone, the State Teachers' College is now the University of Northern Colorado, and the "important cattle region" is today dominated by industrial feedlots and one of the largest beef-packing plants in the country.
Written for this edition, 2026.