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Greeley, Horace (1811-1872) New-York daily tribune. [Vol. 25, no. 7501 (April 21, 1865)]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC08428.06 Author/Creator: Greeley, Horace (1811-1872) Place Written: New York, New York Type: Newspaper Date: 21 April 1865 Pagination: 8 p. ; 54 x 40 cm. Order a Copy

News of the capture of George Atzerodt, John W. Booth seen in Pennsylvania, and Secretary Seward and son recooperating. Also reports on the death of Richard Cobden.

The New-York Daily Tribune also known as the New York Tribune was established by Horace Greeley in 1841 and was long considered one of the leading newspapers in the United States.
Greeley died in 1872, the year Whitelaw Reid assumed control of the paper. His son Ogden Mills Reid merged the paper with the New York Herald to form the New York Herald Tribune, which continued to be run by Ogden M. Reid until his death in 1947.

Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Atzerodt, George A., 1835-1865
Booth, John Wilkes, 1838-1865
Seward, William H. (William Henry), 1801-1872
Seward, Frederick William, 1830-1915
Cobden, Richard, 1804-1865

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