SAMUEL W GREEN

Sacramento County

Biographies

SAMUEL W. GREEN

SAMUEL W. GREEN.--A very interesting personality is revealed to all who become acquainted with Samuel W. Green, the popular postmaster at Iselton [sic], although a native of old Jolon, in Monterey County. He was born within a mile of the famous San Antone Mission, on December 24, 1888, and his parents were Harry and Zoy (Avala) Green. Even his maternal great-grandfather was a native of California, and they could boast that their people were numbered among the earliest settlers in the Golden State.

Harry Green was a native of that other Mission town, San Luis Obispo, the son of Grandfather Green, who came from Philadelphia to California via Cape Horn during the days of the early gold excitement. Harry Green was a carpenter and bridge builder with the Southern Pacific Railroad at San Luis Obispo. He was accidentally killed on a railroad crossing when he was fifty-four years of age. His devoted wife still resides at San Luis Obispo. They had three children: Samuel, the subject of this narrative, is the oldest; and then comes Harry D. Green, who is with his mother; and in the same old town of historic fame, Rosie, who is married and has become Mrs. L. Bittick, is also living.

Samuel W. Green went to the grammar school of San Luis Obispo, and later attended the Mission school in San Francisco, and then he pursued the usual courses of study in the Mission high school at San Francisco, where he graduated in 1905. Still later, he attended the Hastings Law School for a year and eight months, and he also took a business course at Heald’s College, in San Francisco. At present, he is enjoying a law course in Sacramento Law School and is now in the Junior year, having commenced to do clerical work of a legal nature when he was seventeen. On February 27, 1918, he came to Iselton [sic] as bookkeeper for Libby, McNeill & Libby at the Isleton plant. In 1919 he took the civil service examination for postmaster and was appointed postmaster of Isleton, in 1920, and has been discharging the heavy responsibilities of this bustling office ever since. He has faith in the town, and the town has faith in him, especially since he purchased valuable property here and thereby demonstrated his expectation of a bright future for the place. While at San Luis Obispo, Mr. Green did justice court work in the district attorney’s office, and that has made his legal studies, and even his administration of the post-office, easier and more successful. In national political affairs, he is a Republican.

Mr. Green was married at Sacramento, on February 15, 1919, when he took Miss Elna Isabel Jensen, a native of Isleton, for his bride. She was the daughter of Jens and Sophie (Hallander) Jensen, worthy folks of their day and generation. Jens Jensen was a native of Denmark, who came to California when eighteen years old. Her father is an old-timer in Isleton and an interesting sketch of the Hallander family appears elsewhere in this historical work. Elna Jensen Green is the oldest of three children, the others being Violet and Roy. Mr. Green is a member of Rio Vista Lodge No. 208, F. & A. M.; and of Pyramid No. 3, of the Sciots, of Sacramento. Both Mr. and Mrs. Green are members of Rio Vista Chapter No. 222, Order of Eastern Star. Taking an interest in law he is naturally a notary public; and being active in civic and social affairs, he is valued as a member of Isleton Chamber of Commerce, as well as of the National Postmasters’ League.

Transcribed by Vicky Walker, 8/2/07.

Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With Biographical Sketches, Page 968. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.