Horace Greeley’s Daughter.

Te Aroha News, Volume VIII, Issue 484, 28 June 1890, Page 6

Horace Greeley’s Daughter.

Gabrielle Greeley has met an irreparable lose in the burning of her house and the destruction of her father’s correspondence. It deprives her of what she considered the greatest purpose in life—the publication of a correct memoir. The Chaqqaqua farm was Greeley’s only recreation. It was an inferior piece of land, but he determined he would reform nature, just as he tried to reform society. He spent about $50,000, and the land is not worth much more at present than it was when he made the purchase. Greeley had three children, one son and two daughters. The son died in childhood, and Greeley never freely recovered from the blow. The daughters survived him, and the oldest, Ida, married Colonel Nicholas Smith, of Kentucky, then the handsomest man in the country, which waß his sole claim to distinction.- This union, which was unfortunate, was, in a few years, severed by Ida’s death, ana Smith went back to Kentucky with his two children, thus leaving Gabrielle the sole representative of the great editor. She is a finelooking woman of thirty-five years, and being well adapted to single life, declines all matrimonial offers. She has a handsome competence, and prefers independence. Inheriting her father’s benevolence, she is noted in Chaqqaqua for her active charity. Hence her recent calamity awakens widespread sympathy. N.Y. corr. ‘Troy Times.’