Horace Greeley
(1811-1872)

founder of the New-York Tribune, editor of the New-York Tribune, and US House of Representatives member

Died aged c. 61

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Commemorated on 3 plaques

Horace Greeley [full inscription unknown]

35 East 19th Street 10003, New York, NY, United States where they was

Sylvania Colony. The site of Horace Greeley's Utopian colony modeled on Brook Farm and the ideas of Fourier, French Socialist, was located here. Based on common property holding and equal labor, it failed in 1845 after July frosts had killed all crops.

PA 434, ~100 yds. from PA 590 junction, Greeley, PA, United States where they founded

Lincoln Nomination. In May, 1859, Horace Greeley met with notable political leaders to create a boom to nominate Abraham Lincoln for President. The events that ensued at the Republican National Convention in Chicago paralleled the strategy planned at the parley held in this building.

115 9th St., Honesdale, PA, United States where they met (1859)