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HARRY
ASHLAND GREENE, JR.
Harry
Ashland Greene Jr., chief engineer for Remler
Company, was born in 1898, in Monterey, California; son of Harry Ashland and Ada (Farren) Greene.
After graduating from Monterey
(California) Union High School he entered Leland Stanford Junior University,
from which he graduated with the A.B. Degree in 1924.
Mr. Greene was engaged in amateur
and experimental radio communication from 1912 to 1917. He made the first radio
telephone communication to an airplane, Del Monte, California, in 1916;
collaborated in the construction and operated the broadcast transmitted at
Stanford University in 1922; and broadcast the first football game in 1922.
Mr. Greene was chief engineer for
International Radio Corporation of Los Angeles from 1925 to 1926; and chief
engineer for Remler Company of San Francisco since
1926.
From 1917 to 1919 he served as chief
electrician, Radio, with the United States Naval Reserve Forces.
Member of Phi Beta Kappa Fraternity;
Democrat in politics; and is a Protestant.
Mr. Green married Viola Archibald in
1927 and they have three sons, Harry A. III, Clay M. and Richard. Their home is
in San Carlos, California, at 1225 Alberta Avenue.
Offices: 2101 Bryant Street, San Francisco, California.
Transcribed By: Cecelia M. Setty.
Source: “Eminent Californians 1953”,
by Lee E. Johnson & C. W. Taylor. Page 138, C. W. Taylor
Publ., Palo Alto, California, 1953.
© 2013 Cecelia M. Setty.
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