Greeley, Horace
journalist, statesman, author, was born Feb. 3, 1811, in Amherst, N. H. In 1831 he obtained work journeyman printer in New York city. In 1834, in connection with Jonas Winchester, he started the New Yorker, a weekly journal of literature and general intelligence, and became its editor; after struggling on several years the journal was abandoned. During its existence, Mr. Greeley published several political campaign papers, the Constitution, the Jeffersonian, and the Log Cabin. In 1841 he commenced the publication of the New York Tribune, and in 1848 was chosen to fill a vacancy in the thirtieth congress. In 1851 he visited Europe, and was chosen chairman of one of the juries at the world's fair; gave an account of his travels in a series of letters to the Tribune, which were afterwards collected into a volume. He also published a collection of his addresses, essays, etc., under the title of Hints Toward Reforms; and a work entitled The American Conflict. In 1864 he was a presidential elector; was a delegate to the Philadelphia loyalists' convention of 1866, and to the state constitutional convention of 1867. He was one of those who gave bail for Jefferson Davis in May, 1867. In 1872 he was nominated by the conservative party for the office of president, but was defeated. His most popular book was Recollections of a Busy Life. He died Nov. 29, 1872, near Pleasantville, N. Y.
GREELY, ADOLPHUS WASHINGTON, explorer, author, was born March 27, 1844, at Newburyport, Mass. He is an arctic explorer in the United States service. In 1887 he was appointed chief of the signal service corps, with the rank of brigadiergeneral, and was thus at the head of the weather bureau until its transfer to the department of agriculture in 1891. He is the author of Three Years of Arctic Service; American Weather; Handbook of Arctic Discoveries; and Explorers and Travelers.
GREEN, ALEXANDER LITTLE PAGE, clergyman, author, was born June 6, 1806, in Sevier county, Tenn. He was a methodist clergyman of Nashville who was the author of The Church in the Wilderness.
He died July 15, 1874, in Nashville, Tenn.