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James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley, Chapter 2: Ancestors.—parentage.—birth. (search)
ohn Woodburn died in 1780. Mrs. Woodburn, the subject of the passage just quoted, survived her husband many years, lived to see her children's grandchildren, and to acquire throughout the neighborhood the familiar title of Granny Woodburn. David Woodburn, the grandfather of Horace Greeley, was the eldest son of John Woodburn, and the inheritor of his estate. He married Margaret Clark, a granddaughter of that Mrs. Wilson, the touching story of whose deliverance from pirates was long a favoritdeliverance from the hands of the pirates was annually observed as a day of thanksgiving by the passengers for many years. Mrs. Wilson, after the death of her first husband, became the wife of James Clark, whose son John was the father of Mrs. David Woodburn, whose daughter Mary was the mother of Horace Greeley. The descendants of John Woodburn are exceedingly numerous, and contribute largely, says Mr. Parker, the historian of Londonderry, to the hundred thousand who are supposed to have de
James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley, Chapter 3: early childhood. (search)
rable and clinching proof of the fact, that, at the age of four years, he could read any book in whatever position it might be placed,—right-side up, up-side down, or sidewise. His third winter Horace spent at the house of his grandfather, David Woodburn, in Londonderry, attended the district school there and distinguished himself greatly. He had no right to attend the Londonderry school, and the people of the rural districts are apt to be strenuous upon the point of not admitting to their d heard glowing accounts of Horace's feats at school, took him on his lap in the field, questioned him a long time, tried to puzzle him with hard words, and concluded by saying with strong emphasis to one of the boy's relatives, Mark my words, Mr. Woodburn, that boy was not made for nothing. Another, besides confirming the above, adds, that Horace was in some respects exceedingly brave, and in others exceedingly tim orous. He was never afraid of the dark, could not be frightened by ghost-st