Sacramento County
Biographies
HENRY GREEN
HENRY GREEN.—The high standards
attained by the Sacramento musical world are reflected in the
widely-acknowledged achievements of Henry Green, the accomplished music
teacher, whose studio is at 3811 4th Avenue,
in the Capital. He was born at Cornwall,
and comes from a picturesque part of Old England famous for its association
with the lives of great musical leaders. His father, Frederick Green, came
out to the United States in 1858, and
stayed for about three years; and in 1876 he ventured on a voyage to Australia,
and died there. He married Miss Phillipa Waters,
and both husband and wife made an excellent record for usefulness in the world.
Henry
Green attended the excellent English schools of his home district, where he
also commenced his musical training; and in far-away Australia
he was able to make additional progress in musical studies. He came to the
United States, in 1891, for the second time, for he
had been here in 1873 and had located for a while at Virginia City, Nevada, where
he mined and taught music, and had then, in 1876, gone back to England. In
1882, he went to Australia, where he
remained eight and a half years; and in 1891 he returned to the United
States. He located at Grass
Valley, and in 1915, came to Marysville, where
he was a director of the Marysville Band, and then for two years he was in Hammondton and Oakland. On
July 1, 1919, Professor Green came to Sacramento, and for
the past three years he has been teaching music in the Sacramento
high school. In addition, since December, 1920, he has directed the Boys’
Band, which that year won the third, and the next year, the first prize, at the
state fair. This band has a membership of some forty youths, the youngest
lad being ten and the oldest eighteen years of age. He belongs to the
Federated Teachers’ Association, and does private teaching. In politics,
he is an Independent.
Professor
Green was married, in 1882, to Miss Minnie Bernice Quick, a native of Australia,
and three children have been born to them. Olive Blanche, the wife of Reuben
Terry and the mother of four children, is the eldest; George H., the father of
two children, comes next; and Frederick I. is the third in the order of
birth. He was in the World War, as a member of Battery E, 348th
Heavy Artillery, 91st Regiment, saw service in France,
and was one of the number who entered the officers’ training school and got his
rank of lieutenant. Mr. Green belongs to Sacramento Lodge No. 6, B. P. O.
Elks.
Transcribed 8-6-07
Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: Reed, G.
Walter, History of Sacramento County,
California With Biographical Sketches, Page 987. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Marilyn R. Pankey.