Andrew P. Greener (1841 - 1927)

Born 4 Mar 1841 in Shelby, Bureau, Illinois, United States

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Died 8 Aug 1927 at age 86 in Baker, Oregon, United States

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Biography

An Illustrated History of Baker, Grant, Malheur and Harney Counties, pub. 1902 by Western Historical Pub. Co. of Chicago. page 337 Andrew P. Greener Our subject is a native of Shelby, Illinois, born in 1841, his parents being John J. and M. J. (Savage) Greener, natives respectively of Bavaria and Indiana. He continued to reside under the parental roof until the outbreak of the Civil war, when he enlisted in Company B, Fifth-seventh Illinois Infantry, and he did not lay down his arms until the last disloyal gun had been silenced, never more to awake the echoes. He was wounded twice, the first battle scar being received at Pittsburg Landing, the second at Corinth. When his services as a solider were no longer required he went to Kansas and engaged in school teaching. For nine consecutive years he wrought for the educational amelioration of the youth of Jefferson and Linn counties, but in 1875 he came out to Grande Ronde valley, Oregon. For two years he followed his profession there. In 1877 he came to Eagle valley, and after teaching a term took a claim of one hundred and sixty acres a mile and three-quarters north of the present Pine post office and turned his energies to farming and stock raising, a line of endeavor in which he has been engaged ever since. He is an energetic man, and has highly improved his premises by the erection of good buildings, fences, etc., and by judicious cultivation of the soil. In politics Mr. Greener takes quite a leading interest, being a stanch Republican, and an active worker in the conventions of his party. For two years he served as county assessor, and to him belongs the honor of having secured the establishment of the post office at Pine, and of having acted as its first postmaster. In April, 1873, our subject married Miss Amanda, daughter of Josiah and Mariah (Long) Brooks, natives respectively of Pennsylvania and Delaware, and to their union seven children have been born: Birch, deceased; Elmer, Edward, Ola and Eva, at home; Orville, who died in 1900, and Norvall, at home, the last two being twins. Mr. Greener is a member of Phil Kearney Post, No. 66, G.A.R.

Sources

• An Illustrated History of Baker, Grant, Malheur and Harney Counties, pub. 1902 by Western Historical Pub. Co. of Chicago. page 337

• Find A Grave https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/36396535/andrew-p.-greener