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William Alexander Linn, Horace Greeley Founder and Editor of The New York Tribune, Chapter 1 : his early years and first employment as a compositor (search)
Chapter 1: his early years and first employment as a compositor
New York city in 1831
Parentage and farm life
his schooling
opinions of a college education
apprenticeship in Vermont
appearance and dress
views of country journalism
amusements
a nonuser of tobacco and liquor
arrival in New York city
The country lad who went to New York city in the summer of 1831 to seek his fortune, arrived in what would now be called a good-sized town.
The population of Manhattan Island ( ct school from the house of his grandfather, which was nearer it than his home, and this school he attended most of the winter, and some of the summer, months during the next three years. He also attended the district school while they lived in Vermont, as circumstances permitted.
The text-books in those days were as primitive as the teaching and the discipline, embracing Webster's Spelling-Book (just introduced), The American Preceptor as a reader, and Bingam's Ladies' Accidence as a grammar
William Alexander Linn, Horace Greeley Founder and Editor of The New York Tribune, Chapter 2 : first experiences in New York city -the New Yorker (search)
William Alexander Linn, Horace Greeley Founder and Editor of The New York Tribune, Chapter 4 : the founding of the New York Tribune (search)
William Alexander Linn, Horace Greeley Founder and Editor of The New York Tribune, Chapter 7 : Greeley 's part in the antislavery contest (search)
William Alexander Linn, Horace Greeley Founder and Editor of The New York Tribune, Chapter 8 : during the civil war (search)