Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Greene, Edgar B. September 11, 1859 - ????
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Source: Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair Co, PA: Philadelphia, 1892.
Author: Samuel T. Wiley

EDGAR B. GREENE, 
a man of business ability and energy, and superintendent of the Electric
Light Company of Altoona, is a son of Frank P. and Lavina (Burrows) Greene,
was born on the old Green homestead in Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania,
September 11, 1859.  His paternal grandfather Greene was a native of Scotland
and at seventeen years of age came to Huntingdon county, where he cleared out
a large farm, on which he resided until his death, in 1863, at seventy years
of age.  He reared a family of nine children, of whom one was Frank P. Greene
(father), who was born in 1835.  He learned the trade of carpenter at
Freeport, Armstrong county; went to Des Moines, Iowa, where he remained but
one year, and then returned to his native county, in which he followed
carpentering until 1861, when he enlisted in the Union service for three
months.  At the expiration of his term of service he re-enlisted and served
as a private for three years under General Hancock.  He participated in most
of the hard-fought battles of the Army of the Potomac, and endured all the
hardships of military life in the swamps of Virginia.  After being honorably
discharged from the service he returned home, and in 1866 removed to
Philipsburg, Beaver county, where he followed his trade until 1870, when he
went to Bellefonte, Centre county.  He there engaged in the sewing machine
business, which he followed with varied success until 1875, in which year he
disposed of his business on account of impaired health, caused by exposure
while in the army.  After a few years rest he partly recovered his health,
and since then has followed his trade.  He married Lavina Burrows, whose
father was a native of England who settled in Buffalo Run valley, Centre
county, and afterward died at Philipsburg, Beaver county.  Mr. And Mrs.
Greene have four children.
      Edgar B. Greene was reared in Huntingdon and Centre counties, and
received his education in the Bellefonte High school, then under the charge
of Gen. D. H. Hasting.  Leaving school he served an apprenticeship of five
years with his father to learn thoroughly the trade of carpenter.  He then
worked as a journeyman for seven years, and at the end of that time, in 1883,
became manager of the works of the Edison Construction Company at Bellefonte,
which position he held until 1886.  In that year he came to Altoona as
superintendent of the works of the Electric Light Company, which position he
still holds.  He has made a thorough study of electrical lighting, and has
given good satisfaction in his management of electric light works for the
last ten years.
      Mr. Greene was united in marriage to Minerva, daughter of James O.
Bryan of Bellefonte, this State.  To this union have been born four children,
two sons and two daughters:  James A., Fred W., Nannie, and Bessie.
      In politics Mr. Greene is an independent republican, and supports,
without regard to party, those measures which he thinks best calculated to
advance the public welfare and protect the rights of the individual
citizen.  He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Altoona,
Knights of Honor, and Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

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Originally submitted 2001. Transcribed by Sharon McCartney Russell 
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