WHAT would Horace Greeley have been thinking? You had to wonder. His massive portrait hangs over the mantelpiece in his former house — now the home of the New Castle Historical Society — and his beneficent image gazes down on the proceedings unfolding in what was once his daughter’s bedroom.
It was the opening reception for the society’s new exhibit — ”Bill Clinton, Our Neighbor” is the title — and the former president himself had come to see the show. Surrounded by a beehive of excited Chappaqua residents, Mr. Clinton made the rounds of the exhibit, which mostly featured photographs of him and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton in and around the hamlet.
Mr. Greeley, newspaper publisher and frustrated farmer, was also a presidential candidate. He ran unsuccessfully against Ulysses S. Grant in 1872. For more than a century, he retained his position as Chappaqua’s most famous resident. But when the Clintons purchased their colonial farmhouse here in 1999, the hoopla that followed seems to have ousted Greeley from that spot as well.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/28/nyregion/county-lines-after-our-neighbor-bill-who-ll-remember-horace.html?smid=pl-share