Duval County FlArchives Biographies.....Greene, Ralph N. November 5, 1883 - 
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Source: Vol. II  pg.109-110  The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923
Author: History of Florida, Past and Present

        RALPH NELSON GREENE, M. D. In the course of his wide experience as a
physician and surgeon Doctor Greene for a number of years was associated with
the Florida State Hospital for the Insane. He served with the rank of major in
the Medical Corps during the World war, and since establishing himself in
private practice at Jacksonville, has limited his work to mental and nervous
diseases.
	Doctor Greene, whose offices are in the St. James Building, was born at 
Indianapolis, Indiana, November 5, 1883, son of ARTHUR H. and MARY ELIZABETH 
(SELLERS) GREENE. This is a branch of the Greene family of which Gen. NATHANIEL 
GREENE of the Revolution was a conspicuous member. On his mother’s side Doctor
Greene represents the DANIEL BOONE ancestry.  His parents were both natives of
Indiana, his father born in Morgan County, in 1854, and his mother in Johnson
County, in 1851. They had three children: LORIN A., who holds the rank of major
in the Medical Corps of the Army; LAYLON, who died at the age of five years;
and RALPH NELSON.
	ARTHUR H. GREENE, who since 1914 has been a resident of Jacksonville, 
Florida, has had a long business career in connection with the manufacture and 
sale of paper. For many years he was located at Atlanta, Georgia, and Memphis, 
Tennessee, and he now represents the Virginia Paper Company of Richmond. ARTHUR 
GREENE was the inventor of the first press capable of printing four-color work.
He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and the Christian Church, and for
years has been a stanch prohibitionist and temperance man.
	RALPH NELSON GREENE received his professional education in the Hospital 
Medical College of Memphis, Tennessee, graduating in 1904. After graduating he 
located at Greenville in Madison County, Florida, and engaged in a general 
practice there until 1909. In that year he was appointed assistant physician to 
the Florida State Hospital for the Insane at Chattahoochee, and in 1910 was 
promoted to chief physician, serving in that capacity until 1916. Doctor Greene 
resigned from the state institution to accompany the First Florida Field 
Hospital to the Mexican border. In March, 1917, after his return, he located at 
Jacksonville, but in August of that same year he re-entered the United States
Army Medical Corps, with the rank of major, and served until honorably
discharged in July, 1919. Soon after coming out of the army Doctor Greene was
appointed state health officer of Florida, but resigned in June, 1921, in order
to devote all his time to his special practice in mental and nervous diseases.
	The medical profession of Florida looks upon him as one of its foremost 
members, and in 1917 the Florida State Medical Association elected him its 
president. He is also a member of the American Medical Association and is a 
Fellow of the American Association of Psychiatrists. Doctor Greene is 
affiliated with the Solomon Lodge No. 20, F. and A. M., Jacksonville Chapter 
No. 12, R. A. M., Damascus Commandery No.  2, K. T., Morocco Temple of the
Mystic Shrine. He is chairman of the Official Board of Riverside Christian
Church, and in politics is a democrat.
	February 8, 1905, he married LILLIAN ALLEN, a native of Greenville,
Florida. Their two children are VIRGINIA ELIZABETH and RALPH NELSON, Junior.


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