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James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley, Chapter 2: Ancestors.—parentage.—birth. (search)
old age. So far, tradition. We now draw from the memory of individuals still living. The son of Benjamin Greeley was Ezekiel, old Captain Ezekiel, who lived and greatly flourished at Hudson, New Hampshire, and is well remembered there, and in alCaptain Ezekiel, who lived and greatly flourished at Hudson, New Hampshire, and is well remembered there, and in all the region round about. The captain was not a military man. He was half lawyer, half farmer. He was a sharp, cunning, scheming, cool-headed, cold-hearted man, one who lived by his wits, who always got his cases, always succeeded in his plans, alring property, however wanting in principle, however destitute of feeling, that man may be. Happily, the wife of old Captain Ezekiel was a gentler and better being than her husband. And, therefore, Zaccheus, the son of old Captain Ezekiel, was a Captain Ezekiel, was a gentler and better man than his father. Zaccheus inherited part of his father's land, and was a farmer all the days of his life. He was not, it appears, too fond of work, though far more industrious than his father; a man who took life easily, of
James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley, Chapter 8: arrival in New York. (search)
tedious. Several men had tried their hand at it, and, in a few days or a few hours, given it up. The foreman looked at Horace, and Horace looked at the foreman. Horace saw a handsome man (now known to the sporting public as Colonel Porter, editor of the Spirit of the Times.) The foreman beheld a youth who could have gone on the stage, that minute, as Ezekiel Homespun without the alteration of a thread or a hair, and brought down the house by his getting up alone. He no more believed that Ezekiel could set up a page of a Polyglot Testament than that he could construct a chronometer. However, partly to oblige Horace's friend, partly because he was unwilling to wound the feelings of the applicant by sending him abruptly away, he consented to let him try. Fix up a case for him, said he, and we'll see if he can do anything. In a few minutes Horace was at work. The gentleman to whose intercession Horace Greeley owed his first employment in New-York is now known to all the dentists i