Sacramento County
Biographies
MYRON SMALL
GREEN
MYRON SMALL GREEN was born in Richmond, Vermont, May 17, 1838, his parents being Iddo and Louisa (Whitcomb) Green. The mother died in 1887, aged seventy-six; the father, a carpenter by trade, is still living, aged eighty, on January 9, 1889. Grandfather Isaac Green was over seventy when he died. Grandmother (Stevens) Whitcomb also lived to a good old age, dying of apoplexy. M. S. Green received a limited education in the district schools, and at the age of fifteen came to California with his uncle, James Whitcomb, helping to drive cattle across the plains. The uncle had come to California in 1850 with his brother Silas. They were the owners of a large part of the Whitcomb ranch, now owned by N. M. Fay. Young Green helped around on the place until near the close of 1856. On December 20 of that year he left San Francisco for Vermont, where he spent one year in an academy at Underhill Centre. Returning in April, 1858, he went into the butchering business in Sacramento. He also bought and sold stocks, and of this he has done more or less ever since. For some years his uncle James Whitcomb, carried on a large butchering business in the mining regions, running five shops at as many points, and in these enterprises Mr. Green was often an assistant, and at other times did butchering on his own account or for others. In 1871 Mr. Whitcomb bought a fruit ranch of 103 acres on the Sacramento, about four miles above Courtland. In 1873 he was seriously injured, resulting after a few months of paralysis of the lower limbs, which proved incurable. He had recourse to various kinds of treatment from 1873 to 1876, but all proved ineffective. In 1876 he settled down in the new house he had just built on his fruit, and lived there ten years, dying July 18, 1886, aged sixty-one. Mr. Green now occupies the place, and is administrator of the estate. There are about twenty acres of orchard, and forty of alfalfa, the other chief industry being the raising of horses and cattle. In 1865 Mr. Green was married in Virginia City to Miss Frances J. Field, a native of Keokuk, Iowa, daughter of Edward and Eliza (Moran) Field. Mr. Field was a native of Vergennes, Vermont. Mr. and Mrs. Green are the parents of three children: Clara Louisa, born in 1869; James Whitcomb, in 1871; and Edward, in 1880.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Davis, Hon. Win. J., An Illustrated History of
Sacramento County, California. Pages 587-588. Lewis
Publishing Company. 1890.
© 2007 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.