Distant Cousin Horace Greeley

Horace Greeley (1811-1872) is my 4th cousin 4 times removed on my mother's side. He was a newspaper editor, politician, and abolitionist. He founded and edited the New York Tribune, a prominent and influential newspaper from the 1840's - 1870's. Wikipedia has an extensive article about him.


He persuaded my paternal second great-grandfather, James Pyle, of the benefit of newspaper advertising. Following is from James Pyle's 1900 New York Daily Tribune obituary. (See James Pyle & Sons for more about my second great-grandfather.)

You can see James Pyle's full New York Times obituary here, which also includes this story.

I wrote about my Greeley ancestry here, where I mention the basic secondary source for the Greeley family: George Hiram Greeley, Genealogy of the Greely-Greeley Family (Boston, Mass.: 1905), which can be found at Google Books and the Internet Archive. Pages 671-673 include information about the life of Horace Greeley.

Andrew Greele

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Joseph Greele

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Samuel Greele      Benjamin Greele

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Samuel Greele     Ezekiel Greele

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Samuel Greele     Zaccheus Greele

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Samuel Greele    Zaccheus Greeley

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Samuel Sewall Greeley   Horace Greeley

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Ethel May Greeley

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Lowell Townsend Copeland

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My mother

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Me

Horace Greeley is buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in New York. You can see a memorial for Horace Greeley at Find A Grave, where my second great-grandfather, James Pyle is also buried.