Denver-Pueblo County CO Archives Biographies.....Green, Fred L. 1886 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/co/cofiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000031 January 4, 2009, 6:38 am Author: Wilbur Fiske Stone (1918) FRED L. GREEN. Fred L. Green is one of Denver's most successful and representative automobile men, now the vice president and general manager of the O'Meara & Green Motor Company, distributors for the Ford cars. He has built up a business of magnitude in this connection. Moreover, his activities have been an effective force in advancing Colorado's progress and upbuilding along many lines. He is an enthusiastic champion of the state and its possibilities and has done everything in his power to exploit its interests and promote its substantial growth. The life record of Fred L. Green began at Mason, Michigan, on the 31st of October, 1886, his parents being Frank H. and Minnie M. (Pratt) Green, the former a native of Bergen, New York, while the latter was born in Michigan. In early life Frank H. Green removed westward to Michigan, where he later engaged in the lumber business and in farming. His has been an active and useful life along those lines of labor and he still retains his residence in Michigan at the age of fifty-four years, he and his wife being well known and respected citizens of Lansing. It was in her native state that Mrs. Green was reared, educated and married. By her marriage she became the mother of two children, the younger being George Green, who is still living in Michigan. The elder son, Fred L. Green of this review, began his education in the public schools at the usual age, pursuing his studies at Mason, at Gladwin and at Lansing, Michigan, as his parents removed from one place to another. He at length became a pupil in the high school at Lansing, but before the time of graduation he put aside his textbooks in order to make his initial step in the business world. In 1906 he went to Kalamazoo, Michigan, and there started out in mercantile lines on his own account as a dealer in sporting goods. He met with a very substantial measure of success in that connection and continued to conduct business in Kalamazoo until 1912, when he sold out and returned to Lansing, Michigan, where he entered into the automobile wheel manufacturing business, in which he remained until February, 1914. He then came to Denver and entered into business relations with the Ford Motor Company, becoming thoroughly acquainted with the trade. On the 16th of August, 1916, he secured the Ford agency for Colorado in handling Ford motor cars and accessories. He organized the O'Meara & Green Motor Company and leased a building at the corner of Fourteenth Street and Broadway, one of the most advantageous locations in the city. Here a substantial building has been erected and a successful business is now being conducted under the able management of the two capable young men who constitute the firm. The business was incorporated on the 19th of August, 1916, with Walter K. Hurd, of Pueblo, Colorado, as president; F. L. Green as vice president and manager, and Alfred M. O'Meara, as the secretary. They have closely studied every question bearing upon the development of the business and the extension of their patronage and their trade has assumed large proportions. This is now one of the most progressively and successfully conducted agencies in the west. In addition to his interest in the automobile business, Mr. Green is also director in many other growing enterprises of the state. He has unbounded faith in the future of Colorado and is therefore glad to ally his interests with those of the commonwealth. He is a director of the Commercial Investment Company, with offices in the Gas & Electric building, and his standing in business circles is indicated in the fact that he has been elected to the presidency of the Automobile Trade Bureau. He is also identified with the Civic and Commercial Association and heartily cooperates in every plan and effort put forth by that organization for the development of the city, the extension of its business and trade relations and the advancement of its civic standards. On the 2d of October, 1911, Mr. Green was united in marriage to Miss Margaret Middleton, of Kalamazoo, Michigan, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Middle-ton, now of Schoolcraft, Michigan. Fraternally Mr. Green is connected with the Knights of Pythias. He and his wife have many friends in Denver and the hospitality of its best homes is freely extended them. Mr. Green is alert, enterprising and energetic and is thoroughly and sincerely optimistic regarding Colorado and its future. His has been a notable career of steady progress for he started out in life empty-handed and has steadily worked his way upward through persistent effort and the utilization of the chances which have come to him—chances which others have passed heedlessly by. Additional Comments: Extracted from: HISTORY OF COLORADO ILLUSTRATED VOLUME II CHICAGO THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY 1918 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/co/denver/bios/green225nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/cofiles/ File size: 5.4 Kb