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Greeley, city (1990 pop. 60,536), seat of Weld co., N Colo., at the base of the Front Range of the Rocky Mts.; inc. 1885. It is a rail and trade center for a rich irrigated farm area. There is meatpacking and other food processing and the manufacture of bridges, apparel, chemicals, and software. Greeley was founded (1870) by Horace Greeley Greeley, Horace, 1811–72, American newspaper editor, founder of the New York Tribune, b. Amherst, N.H.
Early LifeHis irregular schooling, ending at 15, was followed by a four-year apprenticeship (1826–30) on a country weekly at ..... Click the link for more information. through his agent, Nathan C. Meeker, as a cooperative farm and temperance colony. Meeker was killed in the Ute uprising of 1879; his home is a museum. The city is the site of the Univ. of Northern Colorado and has a symphony orchestra, a theater, and an art gallery. Greeley also holds an annual rodeo. |
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amp;rdquo; Horace Greeley “Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right. Horace Greeley, John Quincy Adams and the rest of the abolitionists - reckless madmen, obviously on the wrong side of history - ban 'em. Near the close of the 19th century, orator and publisher Horace Greeley asked, "Have we no professors of play? |
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