Tributes to Horace Greeley

The following are among the tributes to Horace Greeley, editor of the New-York Tribune and 1872 presidential candidate:

Legacy and cultural references

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Places Named After Greeley

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Plaque below Horace Greeley statue in New York City's Greeley Square
 
Horace Greeley Statue
City Hall Park

Miscellaneous

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Chappaqua Farm, New York, Residence Horace Greeley, Currier & Ives, c. 1870
  • In 1856, he designed and built Rehoboth, one of the first concrete structures in the United States.[2]
  • In the Publisher's Announcement in Volume III of Johnson's New Universal Cyclopaedia, A.J. Johnson stated, "the latest labors of Mr. Greeley's life were given to this work, to which he contributed largely. It is with justice, therefore, that his name is preserved in the list of its editors." Horace Greeley is listed as the editor for the topics American History, Statistics, Agriculture, etc.
  • The New York Tribune building was the first home of Pace University. Today, the site where the building stood is now the One Pace Plaza complex of Pace's New York City campus. Coincidentally, Choate House, Dr. Choate's residence and private hospital, where Horace Greeley died, today is part of Pace's campus in Pleasantville, New York.
  • On February 3, 1961, the US Post Office Department issued a 4-cent Horace Greeley Famous American stamp designed by Charles R. Chickering through the Chappaqua, New York, post office.[3]
 
Horace Greeley honored on U.S. Postage stamp
issue of 1961

References

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  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. ^ Walter J. Gruber and Dorothy W. Gruber (March 1977). "National Register of Historic Places Registration:Rehoboth". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Archived from the original on 2011-12-04. Retrieved 2010-12-24.
  3. ^ "Horace Greeley Issue". Smithsonian National Postal museum. Retrieved Sep 12, 2013.
  4. ^ "List of Markers by Marker Number" (PDF). nh.gov. New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources. November 2, 2018. Retrieved July 5, 2019.
  5. ^ Charles Neider (ed.). "Chapter 28". Autobiography of Mark Twain.
  6. ^ Twain, Mark. "Chapter 20". Roughing It.