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GREENE, W. W. Was born in Howard County, Missouri, January 22, 1827. Here he grew up on a farm and resided until
1850, when he crossed the plains to California, and arrived at Hangtown July 28th of that year. He engaged in mining
in El Dorado County for about one month, and then went to Placer County and engaged in merchandising in company
with two others, for about six months. He then went twelve miles below Sacramento and engaged in farming. At the
end of four months he disposed of his interest there and went to Rough and Ready, in Nevada County, and again embarked
in merchandising, where he continued until June, 1851. He then moved his stock of goods to Auburn, Placer County,
and continued merchandising for about eight months. He then closed out and followed teaming until January, 1853,
when he returned to Missouri via Panama. He started from San Francisco in company with Judge Wallace, now of Napa
County, but at Acapulco they separated, Wallace going through Mexico and Mr. Greene via Panama. In April, 1853,
he started from Missouri, accompanied by his father, two sisters and three brothers, his wife and two children,
bound to California with ox teams, and arrived in El Dorado County in the following October. He settled at Auburn,
Placer County, and engaged in hotel keeping and teaming until the fall of 1858, when he moved to Colusa County
and engaged in the stock business, which he followed until 1865. He then moved to the town of Colusa and engaged
in hotel keeping until the spring of 1868. He then went to Oregon and bought horses and sold them in San Francisco.
In the fall of 1868 he engaged in merchandising in Colusa under the firm name of Greene, Murray & Co., which
he continued for one year. He then sold out and built what is known as the Eureka Hotel, which he conducted until
the spring of 1871. He then moved to Lake County and engaged in merchandising in company with his brother, A. D.
Greene, at Kelseyville. In April, 1872, he leased the Bartlett Springs and conducted them for. one year. During
this time he purchased the Lake View Hotel at Lakeport, and in October, 1872, he moved to that place, where he
has since resided, being engaged in hotel keeping. He has changed the name of the house to Greene's Hotel. He was
married, July 23, 1846, to Miss Mary A. Moody, a native of Kentucky. The children are, Martha A., Willis E., Isabell
M., Alice G. and Frank A.
From:
History of Napa and Lake Counties, California
Slocum, Bowen & Co., Publishers
San Francisco, California 1881
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