Butte County
Biographies
FRANK E. GREENE
FRANK E. GREENE--A journalist of more than ordinary newspaper enterprise who, by controlling several representative journals has been able to feel the pulse of the people, and to influence and direct public opinion and action for the welfare of the community, is Frank E. Green, proprietor and owner of the “Biggs Blade,” and “Paradise Advance.” He was born in Wheatland, Yuba County, on March 25, 1889, and while yet a small child was taken by his family to Honcut, in Butte County. There, at the grammar school, he was given the foundation for his education, and later he graduated from the Gridley high school. Next he matriculated at the University of California, and graduated from that institution, a member of the Class of ’15.
While attending classes and pursuing the regular course in college, Mr. Greene joined the staff of the “Daily California,” the University morning paper. As a matter of fact, he had started to learn the printer’s trade at the age of twelve, and made his way through the State University while working in a printing office at Berkeley, and owned and conducted a job shop for three years. He had also edited, while still in the middle of his teens, the “Butte County Times,” of Honcut. He was thus prepared by valuable practical experience for work in Berkeley.
In the spring of 1916, Mr. Green bought the “Biggs Blade,” which is published at Biggs, and he is putting out the “Paradise Advance” from his office at Biggs, having purchased the latter publication early in 1918. His almost phenomenal progress in California journalism is due to the fact that although a young and energetic man, he has already mastered printing and publishing in its many branches, and has become a thorough newspaper man, particularly well-posted on the problems peculiar to the Coast country.
Mr. Greene was married, at Berkeley, to Miss Georgia Bodette, a native of New York State, who was reared in Toledo, Ohio. They have one daughter, Frances Georgia. It was at Berkeley, too, that he became a member of Berkeley Parlor, Native Sons of the Golden West, and a member of the Oakland Typographical Union.
Transcribed
by Joyce Rugeroni.
Source: "History of
Butte County, Cal.," by George C. Mansfield, Pages 1072-1073, Historic Record Co, Los Angeles, CA, 1918.
© 2008 Joyce Rugeroni.
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