Title | : | Horace Greeley |
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Author | : | Charles F. Horne |
Release | : | 2024-07-01 |
Kind | : | ebook |
Genre | : | Biographies & Memoirs, Books |
Size | : | 432645 |
Horace Greeley was one of the few persons whose manhood fulfilled the precocious promise of his youth. He could read before he could speak plainly, and at the age of six he had declared that his purpose in life was to be a printer. At eleven he tried to be apprenticed at the village printing-office and was unsuccessful; at the age of fourteen he was taken on as an apprentice in the office of the Northern Spectator, at East Poultney, Vt. |