Yolo-Sutter County CA Archives Biographies.....Greene, Charles E. 1865 - 
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CHARLES E. GEEENE

    Among the leading citizens of Yolo county is Charles E. Greene, the owner of
El Nido ranch, comprising two hundred acres eight miles southwest of Woodland,
which ranks among the finest and most highly developed ranches in that section.
Representing the type of man well fitted for the labor of building up a
community, Mr. Greene's executive ability and tenacity of purpose, united with
unquestioned honor and good judgment, have enabled him to control with ease the
many problems which are inevitable in his work.

    Mr. Greene was born July 9, 1865, in the old Greene home adjoining the
present place, where his father, whose life appears elsewhere in this volume,
located in 1852. Upon completion of his public school education the son entered
the California Military Academy, at Oakland, where he continued his studies for
three years and later took a course in the Atkinson Business College at
Sacramento, where he graduated in 1885. He then assisted his father in the
management of their ranch consisting of twelve hundred and eighty acres devoted
to grain raising. In 1902, in connection with the home place, he rented the Hext
place, comprising nine hundred and sixty acres adjoining the old home, and after
giving up the Hext ranch he rented the Marders grain ranch of nine hundred acres
located near Esparto. After four years he relinquished his control of this
property in order to take charge of the two hundred-acre tract allotted to him
upon the division of his father's estate, since which period he has devoted his
efforts to the improvement of his inheritance. In addition to raising barley,
which runs fifteen to twenty-five sacks per acre, he conducts an almond orchard
of fourteen acres which produces from one-half to three-quarters of a ton per
acre annually. His comfortable bungalow erected in 1906 is surrounded by trees,
vines and shrubbery, artistically arranged, and his entire ranch is suggestive
of the progressive, thought and untiring industry of its owner.

    July 30, 1902, Mr. Greene was married at Sacramento to Miss Cornelia
Purrington, whose birth occurred in Sutter county and whose parents, Henry and
Anna (Parker) Purrington, were natives of Maine and California respectively. Two
daughters, Lucile and Dorothy, have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Greene. Since 1896
Mr. Greene has been an active member of Athens Lodge No. 228, F. & A. M., at
Davis, being affiliated also with Woodland Chapter No. 46, E. A. M., and
Woodland Commandery No. 21, and by virtue of-his wife's identification with
Ionia Chapter No. 199, O. E. S., at Davis, is likewise enabled to enjoy the
privileges of that order. In all enterprises pertaining to the public good, Mr.
Greene is prompt to lend his hearty support, and is conceded to be one of the
most able citizens of the section in which he is so well and favorably known.



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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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