Mary Cheney Greeley

Mary Cheney Greeley - wife of Horace Greeley 1811-1872 - the American newspaper editor. The marriage was not a happy one and her husband took every opportunity to avoid the severe company of his morose wife.

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She was a fanatical advocate of the Graham Diet and an obsessive believer in spirits. One of her daughters died of neglect due to her doting on a sibling son. Little is known of her early life and her strange relationship with her husband coloured her later life.

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