Greeley, Colorado, USA
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Where is Greeley, Colorado, USA? Greeley, Weld, Colorado, USA
...The fledgling town of 1200 was founded in 1870 by members of a joint stock colonization company called the Union Colony of Colorado, organized by Nathan Meeker, agricultural editor of Horace Greeley’s New York Tribune. Meeker visited Colorado Territory in October, 1869, and his observations on the people and places in the West were published in the Tribune. Meeker was smitten with the Rocky Mountain scenery, the energy and friendliness of its citizens, and the opportunity to inexpensively purchase or homestead fertile tracts of land in a climate renowned for its pure air, moderate temperatures and “perpetual” sunshine. His dream of starting a utopian community based on temperance, religion, education, agriculture, irrigation, cooperation, and family values was rekindled. He penned an appealing article, “A Western Colony” for the Tribune’s December 14, 1869 edition, in which he encouraged literate and temperance individuals with high moral standards and money to join him in a colony venture in Colorado Territory...
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1870 - Union Colony is established by Horace Greeley and Nathan C. Meeker at Greeley, and first irrigation canal surveyed there. The Greeley Tribune established.
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1876 - Greeley's first industry, the tanning of buffalo hides, turns out 12 robes a day.
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1884 - A DREADFUL DEATH Ten Roustabouts Connected with the Anglo-American Circus Perish in the Flames. CRIMINAL CARELESSNESS OF THE MANAGERS.
On the morning of the 29th as the Anglo-American circus...Read MORE...
1888 - Union Colony at Greeley completes 900,000 acre irrigation project.
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1897 - Kicked by HorseLast Wednesday the little four year old son of Mr. and Mrs. John Klug while playing near a horse at ...Read MORE...
1916
Greeley, a banking city, capital of Weld co., Colo., on the Cache la Poudre River, 52 miles NNE. of ...Read MORE...
Greeley, a banking city, capital of Weld co., Colo., on the Cache la Poudre River, 52 miles NNE. of ...Read MORE...
1924 - Celebration held in Greeley marking completion of concrete pavement between Denver and Greeley - first two major cities in State to be connected by paved highways.
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1937 - SECOND MAN DIES IN REFINERY BLAST. R. HOUSEWEART, 22, SUCCUMBS TO HIS BURNS. BODIES OF BOTH MEN ARE SENT TO KINDERHOOK, ILL., FOR BURIAL; GARD COLEMAN, 25, OTHER VICTIM OF SOUTH GREELEY EXPLOSION.RAY (DOC) HOUSEWEART, 22, of Eaton and Kinderhook, Ill., died at 1:09 a.m. Saturday, slightly more...Read MORE...
Ancestors Who Were Born Here
 
Grace Pauline GERRY
(8 November 1901, Greeley, Colorado, USA - 31 May 1987, Providence, Rhode Island, USA)
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Ancestors Who Died Here
Elbridge Joseph GERRY
(15 November 1878, Robbinston, Maine, USA - 27 November 1902, Greeley, Colorado, USA)
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Max K GERRY
(27 May 1869, Robbinston, Maine, USA - 26 November 1940, Greeley, Colorado, USA)
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Paul Elbridge GERRY
(19 January 1899, Somerville, Massachusetts, USA - 23 November 1902, Greeley, Colorado, USA)
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Ancestors Who Were Married Here
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Max K GERRY (27 May 1869 - 26 November 1940) &
Mary R THOMPSON (1863 - 25 June 1928)
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