CIRCA 1870 HANDWRITTEN DIARY NH FULL YEAR FARMER RIKER FAMILY 100 PAGES

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CIRCA 1870 HANDWRITTEN DIARY NH FULL YEAR FARMER RIKER FAMILY 100 PAGES:
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Up for sale is a handwritten diary from the year 1870.

The diary is full for the year with entries for everyday. The author appears to have been afarmer and woodworker. He was from New Hampshire hislast name was Ricker.

What is reallyinteresting about this diary is a page that appears to have been written &signed by Horace Greeley. Greeley was a famous newspaper editor, and founder ofthe Liberal Republican Party, a reformer, a politician, and an outspokenopponent of slavery. The New York Tribune. (More about this entry later)

The author ofthe diary entries are very straight forward and to the point. He records thedays events He appeared to be a religious gentleman who attend church meetingsregularly and notes changes in weather.

He also haslist of family members listed in the back of the diary going back to the 1770sOther entries include when he bought a wagon for 97.00 he also seems to betapping trees for Maple syrup. He also planted potatoes notes when Bluebirdsreturned in the spring and other nature that appears.

theHorace Greeley entry :

I can lecture for you in Dec if we can agree on times Ishall ask $ 100 my new lecture not yet written is to be entitled the \" Women’sMission\"

I have old ones at your service 1. A Lincoln 2. Great Men 3. Self Made Men

I could come to you between 20 and 30th of December

Yours HoraceGreeley.

I am notsure what connection the author had with Greeley perhaps he had just asked himto speak at his church and Greeley wrote the note in the diary.

Regardless the diary needs more research.

Any questions feel free to ask

HoraceGreeley (February 3, 1811 – November 29, 1872) was an American newspapereditor, a founder of the Liberal Republican Party, a reformer, a politician,and an outspoken opponent of slavery. The New York Tribune (which he foundedand edited) was the most influential U.S. newspaper from the 1840s to the 1870sand \"established Greeley\'s reputation as the greatest editor of hisday.\"[1] Greeley used it to promote the Whig and Republican parties, aswell as opposition to slavery and in favor of a host of reforms ranging fromvegetarianism to socialism.

Crusading against the corruption of Ulysses S. Grant\'sRepublican administration, he was the new Liberal Republican Party\'s candidatein the 1872 U.S. presidential election. Despite having the additional supportof the Democratic Party, he lost in a landslide. He is the only presidentialcandidate to have died prior to the counting of electoral votes.