Horace Greeley
Horace Greeley is the only person with Chautauqua County roots ever to run for president of the United States.
His family lived in Clymer, or more succinctly, Wayne Township, Pa., on a road south of Clymer that delineates New York from Pennsylvania the state line road. Greeley’s parents, Zac and Mary Woodburn Greeley, were among Clymer’s earliest residents. They moved to the State Line Road in 1826 from Vermont, well before one could easily get from Buffalo.
There were no ways from eastern New York west, either, save for the Erie Canal. But the Greeleys were pioneers. The family made it to North East, Pa., by wagon and then took wagons to Wattsburg, ox carts from the Pennsylvania line between Wattsburg and Clymer, and walked up over the hills to the south and east to the Wayne Township property. A log cabin greeted their arrival. Mary Woodburn Greeley never stopped crying, it was said.
Judy Camp Smolk and Doug Neckers Robert H. Jackson speaking at the Council for Democracy at Carnegie Hall in New York City, Nov. 6, 1940.
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Robert H. Jackson speaking at the Council for Democracy at Carnegie Hall in New York City, Nov. 6, 1940.
AP photo
Horace Greeley is the only person with Chautauqua County roots ever to run for president of the United States.
His family lived in Clymer, or more succinctly, Wayne Township, Pa., on a road south of Clymer that delineates New York from Pennsylvania the state line road. Greeley’s parents, Zac and Mary Woodburn Greeley, were among Clymer’s earliest residents. They moved to the State Line Road in 1826 from Vermont, well before one could easily get from Buffalo.