Sacramento County
Biographies
CHRISTOPHER
GREEN
CHRISTOPHER GREEN, was born in Ireland, December 25, 1830, and when he was a little more than thirteen years of age he left his native country and came on the vessel Shenandoah to New York city, where he entered himself as an apprentice to the carpenters’ trade, in which relation he worked by the month. In 1844 he went down to Washington Market and obtained employment from Joseph Churchill, beginning to work for him for $5 a month, at his up-town house, near University place. After remaining with him for six years he went to Chicago, and for sixty days was in the employment of Byer, Wadsworth & Chapin, at $2.50 a day. After a sojourn of twenty-three weeks in Chicago he returned to New York and at once embarked on the Daniel Webster for California, January 5, 1852, coming by the Nicaragua route. On the Pacific side he took the steamer Pacific, upon which he reached San Francisco. There he went to work at the old Pacific Market for George W. Green. Eight months afterward he came to Sacramento and passed on to Nevada City to observe the methods pursued in mining. Returning to Sacramento in August, 1852, he engaged himself in the City Market at the time of the fair of that year. During the autumn, that year, he entered the butchering business on J street, between Front and Second. In 1853 he and H. C. Trainor became partners in the Empire Market, which relation has ever since continued. Mr. Green has always taken an active interest in politics, in public improvements and in the public welfare generally. Was an old-time Whig, and is now a leading Republican, being a member and the treasurer of the Republican county central committee. He was elected mayor of the city of Sacramento in 1872 by a handsome majority, on the issue raised by the railroad company concerning the filling up of China slough, he being in favor of the railroad company’s proposition. In this office he served two terms of three years each. Next he was appointed Postmaster, to fill out the expired term of Mr. Hopping; was re-appointed for the second term, and was succeeded by the present incumbent, R. D. Stephens. For the last sixteen years Mr. Green has been a member of the State Board of Agriculture, being now a Director, and he has been Superintendent of the Grounds. December 9, 1858, Mr. Green married Alice Tolan, a native of Ireland, who came to Massachusetts when young. They have six children, named Tessie, Mamie, Belle, Christopher, Jr., Marcella and Samuel. In his social relations Mr. Green has been a member of the I. O. O. F., since 1857,—of El Dorado Lodge, No. 8, in which he has passed the chairs, and is also a member of Sacramento Lodge, A. O. U. W.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Davis, Hon. Win. J., An Illustrated History of
Sacramento County, California. Pages 664-665. Lewis
Publishing Company. 1890.
© 2007 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.