Yolo-Sacramento County CA Archives Biographies.....Greene, Charles E. (Sr.) 1824 - 1886
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CHARLES E. GREENE, SR.

    Among the wave of emigrants who left the east to answer the call of the
Southern California gold fields in 1849 was C. E. Greene, who passed away July
10, 1886, at his home near Davis, after laboring with other brave pioneers
nearly thirty years to bring to a state of beauty and production the vast tracts
of virgin land in Yolo county, which awaited the touch of the homesteader. Born
in Sherburne, Vt., in 1824, he received his education in the local schools of
Vermont and New York state. During the excitement occasioned by the discovery of
gold in California in 1849 he left his boyhood home in company with others,
making the journey by ox-teams, and after a trying and hazardous trip finally
reached Sacramento. For a year thereafter he worked in the mines with success,
and later was engaged in the mercantile business in Sacramento. In 1852 he
settled on Putah creek, where he carried on farming on an extensive scale, later
purchasing a tract of twelve hundred and eighty acres of valuable land located
five miles from Davis, upon which he made a specialty of grain raising.

    Mr. Greene was united in marriage in Sacramento in 1855, with Miss Bertha L.
Bennett, who was born in Muscatine county, Iowa, and whose parents, Milo and
Mary (Gibson) Bennett, were among the first settlers of Sacramento in 1851,
having crossed the plains that year. Mr. and Mrs. Greene were blessed with three
children: Mrs. B. B. Tuttle, Mrs. Col. James Jackson, and Charles E., Jr.
Identified with all public movements of merit, Mr. Greene was known throughout
the county as a man of the highest worth and to those who had the privilege of
knowing him best, the memory of his life will ever remain an encouragement and a
blessing.


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HISTORY OF YOLO COUNTY CALIFORNIA
WITH
Biographical Sketches
OF
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been Identified With Its Growth
and Development From the Early Days to the Present

HISTORY BY
TOM GREGORY
AND OTHER WELL KNOWN WRITERS
ILLUSTRATED COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME

HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA [1913]

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