BIOGRAPHY: E. Will GREENE, Cambria County, PA 

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From Wiley, Samuel T., ed. Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Cambria 
County, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Union Publishing Co., 1896, p. 318-9
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E. WILL GREENE, editor of the Patton Courier, and an energetic and reliable 
business man, is a son of Squire Joseph W. and Julia F. (Prindle) Greene, and 
was born at Brockwayville, Jefferson county, Pennsylvania, June 28, 1869. His 
great-grandfather, Greene, came from Scotland to Burlington, Vermont, where he 
became a farmer. His son, Edward Allen Greene, was the father of Joseph W. 
Greene.
     Joseph W. Greene walked from Glen's Falls, New York, to Brockwayville, this 
State, when but twenty years of age, and became an early settler at that place, 
where he followed lumbering for a number of years. He then engaged in the real-
estate business, and late in life dealt in oil and coal lands. He conducted the 
only temperance hotel of his town for many years. Like his father and 
grandfather he was a strong whig, and took an active part in politics, serving 
one term as county commissioner and as a justice of the peace for thirty-three 
years. He was a man of integrity and reliability, well liked by all who knew him 
and thoroughgoing in all business enterprises in which he was engaged. He was a 
painter by trade, but gave his time largely to dealing in real estate in his 
section of the State, where he met with the varying fortunes of the early 
pioneer in those lines of business, but in success or under reverse his word was 
never doubted or his honesty questioned. His active and useful life closed in 
1887, when he died suddenly of asthma. He married Julia F. Prindle, July 4, 
1848, who is a daughter of Bennett Prindle, now deceased, a resident of 
Allegheny county, New York, and a member of an old New York family of Irish 
origin.
     Mrs. Julia F. Greene still resides at her old home, and is now in the 
sixty-first year of her age. To Squire and Mrs. Greene were born seven sons and 
a daughter: John A., of Washington city, District of Columbia; Rev. Charles F., 
now residing at Franklinville, Florida; Phoebe E., wife of J.C. Moorhead, of 
Kittanning, this State; E. A., residing at Kane, this State; Joseph R.; B.P., 
and C.W., residing at Brockwayville, Pennsylvania, while E. Will resides at 
Patton, Pennsylvania.
     E. Will Greene attended the common schools until he was thirteen years of 
age, and two years later entered a printing office in his native town, but 
finished his trade at Du Bois, this State, with E.W. Gray & Co. publishers of 
the Du Bois Morning Courier. He remained with this firm about five years, then 
was foreman for a year on the Bradford Star, and after working about two years 
for Stevenson and Foster, job printers of Pittsburg, when on the Reynoldsville 
Volunteer, as foreman, which position he held up to January 2, 1894. He then 
came to Patton, and was made manager and editor of the Patton Publishing 
company, publishers of the Patton Courier. This company on November 23, 1893, 
issued the initial number of the Patton Courier, which is an eight-page six 
column weekly independent paper, devoted to local news and the interests of the 
borough and county, while matters of State and national importance receive due 
attention. Mr. Greene has acted as editor since January 2, 1894, and under his 
charge the paper has constantly gained in interest, and now has a wide 
circulation. He makes a bright and newsy paper, whose every page is interesting 
and entertaining.
     On September 17, 1890, Mr. Greene wedded Nellie Silena Robinson, a daughter 
of Robert Robinson, of Du Bois, this State.
     In politics E. Will Greene is a staunch republican of pronounced views. He 
is clerk of the borough council, and secretary of the Patton board of trade, 
which he helped to organize.
     He is a member of Patton Lodge, No. 1089, I.O.O.F. In addition to being a 
good editor and a skilled painter, Mr. Greene is an energetic businessman, and a 
useful citizen. He has made his own way in life, and has done his best in every 
position in which he has been placed since leaving home at fifteen years of age. 
He is independent and fearless alike of public clamor or popular opinion when in 
the discharge of duty. E. Will Greene may be classed among the self-made 
business men of the county, and although young in years is already an example of 
what properly directed ambition and a will to succeed may accomplish.