Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....Greenwood, A. C. December 7, 1885 - 
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Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Pages 983 - 984
Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

     A. C. GREENWOOD, president of the Union Fuel Company, of Portland, has 
gained wide recognition as an able and progressive business man and has met 
with substantial success in this and other enterprises with which he is 
identified. He was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin, on the 7th of December, 1885, 
and is a son of Joseph and Angeline (Allard) Greenwood, also natives of Green 
Bay. The family was early established in Wisconsin. The first to locate there 
bore the name of Boisvert and was a native of France. He came to this country 
and settled at Fort Howard, Wisconsin. He afterward changed his name to its 
English equivalent, Greenwood, "bois" being French for wood and "vert" meaning 
green. Joseph Greenwood, who died in 1909, was a veteran of the Civil war, 
having served in Company G, Thirty-second Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer 
Infantry. During his army service he contracted rheumatism, from which he was 
an invalid during the last twenty years of his life.

     A. C. Greenwood received a good public school education, which he 
supplemented by a commercial course in a business college. For a time he 
worked for his father and later entered the employ of the Bird & Wells Lumber 
Company, first as timekeeper and stenographer but one year later was promoted 
to the position of head bookkeeper. Eventually he became auditor and assistant 
manager, which dual position he held until 1909, when he came to Portland, 
Oregon, as bookkeeper for the Oregon & Washington Lumber Company. Later he 
entered the employ of the Monarch Lumber Company, being put in charge of dry 
sheds and finished lumber, and two months later was made yard superintendent. 
In 1911 he became connected with the fuel business as manager of the Multnomah 
Fuel Company, which relation he sustained until 1915, when he organized the 
Union Fuel Company, of which he has been president continuously since. His 
company takes the output of fuel from the Eastern & Western Lumber Company and 
has been very successful in its operation, employing from twenty-five to 
thirty persons. In 1921 Mr. Greenwood organized the firm of Greenwood & Dann 
and they have engaged in the road construction business, in which they have 
met with distinctive success, having built over one hundred and twelve miles 
of highways in Oregon. They own an up-to-date equipment and give employment to 
two hundred and fifty men. In July, 1928, he purchased Mr. Dann's interest and 
is now carrying on construction work  under the name of A. C. Greenwood. In 
all of his affairs Mr. Greenwood has exercised excellent judgment and has 
conducted his business operations in a way that has earned for him the 
confidence of all who have had dealings with him.

     In 1908 Mr. Greenwood was united in marriage to Miss Lillian Caesar, who 
was a public school teacher in Wisconsin, and to them have been born five 
children, namely: Keith and John, who are attending Columbia University; 
Catherine; Jane; and Robert.

     Mr. Greenwood gives his political allegiance to the republican party and 
has shown a commendable interest in public affairs. He is a member of the 
Knights of Columbus, of which he was grand knight in 1921. A man of 
substantial qualities, he does well whatever he undertakes, and through his 
determined and wisely directed efforts, has earned the prosperity which is now 
his.

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