Newspaper publisher Horace Greeley was born on February 3, 1811, in Amherst, New Hampshire. The son of a farmer and day laborer, Greeley received limited schooling until he was 14. After that, he found work as an apprentice with a newspaper editor in Vermont. Greeley remained in the newspaper business, taking jobs in New York and Pennsylvania. Then in 1831, he sought to improve his life and returned to New York. He worked a variety of jobs for a while before he had enough money to start his own literary and news journal, the New Yorker. Greeley’s New Yorker proved popular, but not lucrative, so he made extra money writing more on the side, in particular for the Whig Party. His support of the party and close connections to Whig leaders helped him become editor of the Whig publication, the Log Cabin. Under his leadership, the Log Cabin reached about 90,000 readers and helped