S. R. Greene Biography - Grant County Wisconsin

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Submitted by David W. Taft, dtaft @ cowtown.net

History of Grant County Wisconsin
Western Historical Publishing, Chicago, July 1881
Town of Lancaster, Biographical Sketches, Page 889-890

S. R. GREENE, proprietor of livery stable, Lancaster.  Commenced business in 
April, 1879, buying our J. Kilbourn, keeps fourteen horses, and does a 
prosperous business.  Mr. Greene is a native of Potosi, Grant Co., a son of A. 
J. and Sarah (Lyons) Greene. Mr. Greene attended the schools of Potosi, which he 
left at the age of 15, and went into the stage business. Having a natural taste 
for horses, he continued in the business, and, in 1870, commenced running a 
daily stage-line from Potosi to Dubuque until 1873, when the C., C. & D. & M. R. 
R., was completed to Spechts' Ferry. Having been taken in by his brother as a 
partner, they then ran a daily stage from Specht's Ferry to Lancaster, which 
they afterward discontinued and bought the stable in Lancaster in December, 
1878. Mr. Greene was married April 22, 1879.