In 1811 Horace Greeley was born in Amherst, New Hampshire on February 3rd. Twenty-two years later he moved to New York.

Greeley founded the New Yorker newspaper in 1834. Six years later he published the Log Cabin. The next year Horace founded the New York Tribune.

Horace Greeley was elected to congress for one session in 1848. Two years later he was one of the people who protested against flogging in the navy.

In 1856 Greeley was a founder of the Republican Party. Three years later he went to Colorado during the gold rush. He prepared a report on the Colorado gold rush and printed it in the Tribune. He was known for saying, "Go west, young man, go west". Lots of people took his advice.

In 1860 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention. In 1872 Horace was nominated for president but he died that same year.

We got information our from:
Colorado Kids Dig Up The Past,
The World Book Encyclopedia, Vol.
and this web site