GEORGE ALBERT GREENE

Sacramento County

Biographies

GEORGE ALBERT GREENE

GEORGE ALBERT GREENE.—Success comes only to the industrious and persevering in the majority of instances, and George Albert Greene, vice-president and secretary of the National Bond & Mortgage Company, is thoroughly deserving of the prosperity which he is now enjoying. He is a native Californian, born in Yolo County, August 20, 1876, a son of George B. And Alice (Stanley) Greene. Grandfather Greene came to California in 1849 and three years later George B. Greene, the father of our subject, accompanied his mother to the golden State, in 1852. Grandfather Greene engaged in gardening and hauled his produce to the mines. George B. Greene has been a rancher all of his life and was the first white boy to locate on the Sacramento River, and is now located on a large fruit ranch on that river; he is a pioneer fruit-grower and is still active in the industry that has engaged his attention for a lifetime; the mother of our subject is also living.

George Albert Greene began his education in the public schools and finished with a business course; then he became a buyer for a large produce house in San Francisco, which occupation he followed for several years; then he purchased a fruit ranch and farmed for three years, when he sold his ranch and removed to Sacramento and engaged in the real estate business, specializing on farm lands until the spring of 1921 when the National Bond & Mortgage Company was organized and Mr. Greene became vice-president and secretary of the Sacramento branch; the main office of the company is in San Francisco. Mr. Greene disposed of his interests with the bond company during the spring of 1923 and engaged in colonization work and development of large tracts of farming land in northern California.

The marriage of Mr. Greene united him with Miss Emma Catherine Sorenson, a daughter of Wisconsin. Mr. Greene is a third degree Mason and is also a member of the Sciots.

Transcribed 3-28-07 Marilyn R. Pankey.

Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With Biographical Sketches, Page 459. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.