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...Bridgeport home of Phineas T. Barnum a special room was always reserved for him, know as "Mr. Greeley...
James Gordon Bennett invited him to join him in establishing the New York Herald. Greeley declined. Instead, in 1834, aged 23, he began to publish and edit the New Yorker, a weekly literary journal (in no wise connected with the current smart-chart by that name...
...columns of our leading Penny Papers, will be carefully excluded from this, and no exertion spared to render it worthy of the virtuous and refined, and a welcome visitant at the family fireside." Horace was editor; one Thomas McElrath, his partner, was business manager. Among those who worked on Greeley's Tribune at one time or another: Charles A. Dana (famed for the Sun), Whitelaw Reid (father of Ogden Reid, present Herald Tribune owner), John Hay (Lincoln's secretary and Ambassador to England), William Winter (famed critic...
...Union without freeing any slave, I would do it?if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it?and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that." Lincoln penned those lines in a letter to Greeley...
Vexed while traveling by certain citizens of Erie, Pa., Greeley broke forth in the Tribune; "Let Erie be avoided by all travelers until grass shall grow in her streets and until her piemen in despair shall move to some other city...