Biographical Sketch of William A. Greer, Johnson County, Missouri
Simpson Township
>From "The History of Johnson County, Missouri," 
Kansas City Historical Co. 1881

WILLIAM A. GREER,

P.O. Fayetteville, is among the straight forward business young men of
Simpson township.  He was born in Johnson county, Missouri, near where
he now resides, December 13, 1856, and received his early education at
the common schools of his neighborhood.  He attended the State
University at Columbia, one session, which, with what knowledge he had
already received in the common schools, eminently fitted him for
business transactions and agricultural pursuits.  When only eighteen
years of age, he took charge of his father's farm, which he controlled
while his father was living.  His father died during the winter of 1881.
His present landed estate numbers 230 acres of excellent agricultural
land, all well improved, except thirty acres of timber.  The farming
land is in a high state of cultivation and produces excellent crops of
corn, wheat and grass.  At present he is erecting one of the most
substantial residences in the township.  He is of a good family, being
the third son of Alexander and Louisa Greer, who are known over the
northeastern part of the county. Wm.  A. in politics, is a democrat.  He
is a prominent stock dealer of the township, and takes delight in the
improvement of the farm and stock enterprise.  He is yet a young man,
who has not chosen a wife, and since the death of his father he has been
very dutiful towards his aged mother.  The biographical sketch of
Alexander Greer, his father, will be found elsewhere, and also an
elaborate notice under the head of the pioneers of Simpson township.
The subject of this sketch is a young man of steady business habits,
temperate and refined.  He uses neither ardent spirits nor tobacco, and
is one of those whom the public may rely upon as having a bright and
prosperous future before him.

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