His book What I Know of Farming described his work in swamp reclamation on his Chappaqua estate.  Earlier in his career, he founded an unprofitable journal called the New Yorker before moving on to edit a Whig campaign journal called The Jeffersonian.  He failed to get Seward's Senate seat in 1861, and two years later was unable to win his state's other Senate seat thanks to the opposition of Thurlow Weed, though over the next decade he became a 
His book What I Know of Farming described his work in swamp reclamation on his Chappaqua estate.  Earlier in his career, he founded an unprofitable journal called the New Yorker before moving on to edit a Whig campaign journal called The Jeffersonian.  He failed to get Seward's Senate seat in 1861, and two years later was unable to win his state's other Senate seat thanks to the opposition of Thurlow Weed, though over the next decade he became a leader of the Liberal Republicans.  Sales of his collection The American Conflict took a nosedive after he signed a bond for the release of Jefferson Davis.  FTP, name this founder of the New York Tribune who unsuccessfully ran for President in 1872.
His book What I Know of Farming described his work in swamp reclamation on his Chappaqua estate.  
Horace Greeley