Los Angeles County
Biographies
MRS. BERTRAM
EUGENE GREEN
Mrs. Bertram Eugene Green, whose efforts have constituted an important factor in the moral and cultural progress of her community, is doing effective work as chairman of the Rehabilitation committee of Los Angeles county and in this capacity donates the entire proceeds of her Los Angeles mercantile establishment to the needs of the poor. A native of Caldwell, Burleson county, Texas, she bore the maiden name of Mamie Lamkin. Her father, John Barker Lamkin, characterized as a full-blooded American of the old school, was born in Hannibal, Missouri, February 22, 1837. He had graduated from law school and had just begun the practice of law at the time of the outbreak of the Civil war, in which he fought with the Confederate forces, being wounded in action. Politically he was a stalwart democrat. His death occurred January 11, 1894, when he was about fifty-seven years of age. In early manhood he married Georgia Smoot, who was born in Caroline county, Virginia, May 19, 1848, of the First Families of Virginia, and who was a true southern aristocrat. She was a granddaughter of Judge Andrew Broaddus, of Richmond, Virginia, and a member of the famous Broaddus colony that settled in Burleson county, Texas, in 1854. Her death occurred September 21, 1906, when she was fifty-eight years of age.
Following her graduation from the high school of Caldwell, Texas, Mamie Lamkin received collegiate training under a private tutor for two years and was then married later completing her college course. On the 9th of June, 1896, in Caldwell, Texas, she became the wife of William Elmo Welborne and removed to Longview, that state, where the husband passed away on the 25th of October, 1904. During the years 1902 and 1903, Mr. and Mrs. Welborne had resided in Crockett, Texas. They were the parents of two sons: William Elmo, Jr., who was born in Longview, Texas, August 30, 1897; and Homer Lamkin, whose birth occurred in Crockett, Texas, June 30, 1903. William Elmo Welborne, Jr., joined the army at the time of the World war and went to France as a first lieutenant with the One Hundred and Sixty-fifth Infantry of the Rainbow Division, with which he participated in numerous engagements. He was wounded in battle and arrived home in Texas a few days before the signing of the armistice. Both he and his brother now reside with their mother in Los Angeles.
Following the death of her first husband, Mrs. Mamie Lamkin Welborne removed to Dallas, Texas, where she made her home for a number of years and formed the acquaintance of Bertram Eugene Green, whom she married in that city on the 19th of March, 1919. Mr. Green is a descendant of the old Randolph family of Virginia, his father J. W. Green being the second cousin of Thomas Jefferson. Mr. and Mrs. Green remained residents of Dallas for a year after their marriage and then spent two years in travel. In 1921 they took up their abode in Los Angeles, California, where they have resided continuously to the present time.
Mrs. Green gives her political allegiance to the democratic party, while her religious faith is indicated by her membership in the Temple Baptist Church. Prominent in the club and social activities of her adopted city, she is curator of the art and travel department of the Ebell Club of Los Angeles and is also serving as first vice president and program chairman of the Town and Gown Club. She likewise belongs to the Los Angeles Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, is a member of the advisory board of the Girls Corner Club of Los Angeles and, as previously stated, is chairman of the Rehabilitation committee of Los Angeles county, owning and conducting a store in order to procure funds for this charitable project, every penny being expended for the poor. Mrs. Green, moreover, is on the advisory board of the University Religious Conference work and during the past three years has contributed thereto the sum of more than three thousand dollars received from benefit garden musicals and similar entertainments which she has successfully planned. Mrs. Green is on the advisory board of the Young Womens (sic) Christian Association of the University of Southern California, having made four or five hundred dollars in garden musicals for this cause. For six years she has been chairman of the Hollywood Bowl campaign breakfasts in the month of June. The object of the four breakfasts is to stimulate the sale of tickets for the Hollywood bowl concerts—through the months of July and August, known as the Symphonies under the stars. She also belongs to the Los Angeles Art Association and the Art Noon Club and is widely known as a woman of broad culture and personal charm.
Transcribed
2-17-13 Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: California
of the South Vol. V, by John Steven McGroarty, Pages
619-621, Clarke Publ., Chicago, Los Angeles, Indianapolis. 1933.
© 2013 Marilyn R. Pankey.
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