Sacramento County
Biographies
GEORGE
BUCKMAN GREENE
GEORGE BUCKMAN GREENE was born in Leesburg, Virginia, March 4, 1849, his parents being Josiah B. and Caroline (Beale) Greene, natives of New Hampshire. The father was in the jewelry business in Leesburg for some years. In the winter of 1849-’50 he came to California, but returned East in 1852 and brought out his wife and child. In due time the boy attended the district school and afterward a private school at Petaluma. As he approached his majority he became familiar with the farm work and dairy interests of his father. He went into business on his own account in 1871, renting his father’s dairy farm. He owns the place he occupies, which he bought of his father in 1886, and of which he received the deed two years later, having been on the place since 1877. It contains 114 acres, with a very neat home and well-kept grounds. Sixty acres are orchard, on which he raises pears, peaches and apricots, a few cherries and plums. Ten acres are devoted to vegetables, and the remainder is tule or swamp land, of which some fractional parts are being reclaimed from year to year. Mr. Greene was married January 1, 1875, to Miss Alice Stanley, a native of California, daughter of Harvey and Harriet (Hoagland) Stanley. The father was born in Vermont in 1812, came to California in 1849, and died in 1862. The mother is still living. Mr. and Mrs. Greene are the parents of two boys: George Albert, born in August, 1876; Arthur Edison, March 16, 1885. A pretty and well designed two-story house, with carefully kept grounds and neatly trimmed hedges, constitute the home of the Greene family. Mr. Greene is a school trustee and a member of the Board of Swamp Land Trustees in District No. 150. He is a man of special talent in the line of mechanics and engineering. Without any formal training or apprenticeship he has constructed a small steam launch, which is the pride of this section, and of which he is the able commander and engineer.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Davis, Hon. Win. J., An Illustrated History of
Sacramento County, California. Pages 617-618. Lewis
Publishing Company. 1890.
© 2007 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.