Bio of Greer, Allen J. (b.1854) Wabasha Co., MN
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Greer, Allen J., the junior member of the firm, was born in Mifflin
county, Pennsylvania, June 14, 1854. His parents, James and Sarah A.
(Carson) Greer, removed to Jefferson City, Missouri, in 1858, where he was
in business at the outbreak of the late war. In 1861 he enlisted as a
private in the war for the Union, and died of pneumonia at Helena,
Arkansas, February 18, 1862, having risen to the rank of second
lieutenant. He was a native of Pennsylvania, and a son of Adam Greer, who
emigrated from the North of Ireland to America, with his wife and elder
children, in about the year 1830. Mrs. Greer finding it unsafe to remain
in a country infested with rebels, Ku-klux and borders ruffians, after her
husband's enlistment, returned with her three small children to her old
eastern home. In 1865 she came with her family to Lake City, where she was
married in 1869, to the Rev. Silas Hazlett. Here young Greer began the
rudiments of an education, which he completed with distinction at the
state university at Minneapolis, where he graduated June 5, 1879, with the
degree of bachelor of science. To Mr. Greer is due the credit of making
his own way through all the branches to the end of a complete scientific
course, and is the first young man from Wabasha county so distinguished.
After graduating from the State Normal at Winona in May, 1873, he secured
a position as principal of the Carver, Minnesota, high school, where he
taught two years previous to entering the State University. While pursuing
his university course, he also (under authority of the state
superintendent of public instruction) taught county institutes in nearly
all the counties in the state. In 1879 he was elected to the position of
superintendent of schools for Wabasha county, and again in 1881, without
opposition. Mr. Greer having had from childhood a taste for the legal
profession, he devoted what little spare time he had, after 1879, to the
reading law in the office of the Hon. Wm. J. Hahn, and was admitted to the
bar in May, 1882, and at once became Mr. J. M. Martin's law partner. He
was married February 21, 1882, to Miss Mary Dorman, daughter of D. B.
Dorman, Esq., of Minneapolis, and has one son.