Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,997
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News Summary
- Henry Raymond founded the New York Times in 1851.
- The Times was a Republican rag all the way.
- Raymond was a Whig and served as Speaker of the House for the state at the time.
- He broke with Horace Greeley by this time, uniting with men such as William Seward and Thurlow Weed, leading to him getting the nomination for lieutenant governor of New York in 1854.
- He eventually became close allies of Abraham Lincoln and wrote a couple of books about him.
This is the grave of Henry Raymond. Born in 1820 outside of Lima, New York, Raymond grew up in the educated middle classes of that era, with a family proud to talk about their lineage in this count [+6707 chars]
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