I am seconding the nomination of Horace Greeley with this additional comment. I was the first to write a history of Harborcreek Township before 1900 as a project for Harborcreek High School in 1965. Greeley stood on the railroad tracks at what is now Wallbridge Road during a railroad strike because he was blocked from entering Erie by train and announced the famous quote, "...until the grass shall grow in the streets, and until her pie bakers in despair shall move to some other city not inhabited by fools and ruffians"..."Go west, young man! Go west!" He, of course, was an editor of the NY Times at that point and would one day run unsuccessfully for President.

Original nomination from Carl Niebauer
Horace Greeley was an American editor of a leading newspaper, a founder of the Republican party, reformer and politician. From 1826 to 1830 Greeley worked as a journeyman printer in Erie, Pa., and later in New York City. His New York Tribune was America's most influential newspaper from the 1840s to the 1870s and "established Greeley's reputation as the greatest editor of his day." Greeley used it to promote the Whig and Republican parties, as well as antislavery and a host of reforms. Crusading against the corruption of Ulysses S. Grant's Republican administration, he was the presidential candidate in 1872 of the new Liberal Republican Party. Despite having the additional support of the Democratic Party, he lost in a landslide.

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