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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 (below the Harlem River) was only 202,589 in 1830, as compared with the 1,850,093 shown by the census of 1900; the total population of the district now embraced in Greater New York was then only 242,278, while in 1900 it was 3,437,202.
The total assessed valuation of the city, real and personal, in 1833, was only $166,491,542; in 1900 it was, for the Borough of Manhattan, $2,853,363,382. No railroad then landed passengers or freight in the city, no ocean steamers departed from the docks, and ther
William Alexander Linn, Horace Greeley Founder and Editor of The New York Tribune, Chapter 7 : Greeley 's part in the antislavery contest (search)