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New England families, genealogical and memorial
William Richard Cutter
pg 2192-3

(VII) Lester Bruce Green, son of Henry Collamer Greene, was born at St. Albans, June 29, 1839, died November 21, 1887. He was educated in the public schools, and learned the printers' trade. When the railroads were built in Vermont in 1848, he went to work in the railroad shops and afterward he was fireman and locomotive engineer. lle was a charter member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, and became secretary and treasurer of the national organization. He was instrumental in electing Peter M. Arthur as grand chief of the national organization, and for years was intimately associated with him in the work at Cleveland, Ohio. He enlisted from Vermont, May 2, 1861, in Company C, First Regiment Vermont Volunteer Infantry, in the civil war, and was mustered out of service September 2, 1861. From 1873 to 1878, he resided at Cleveland, Ohio, on account of his duties as an officer of the brotherhood. He was stricken with locomotor ataxia and had to resign his position. He spent his last years in St. Albans. He married, December 31, 1868, Mary Elizabeth Hoadley, born at Fairfield, daughter of Edwin Franklin Hoadley (see Hoadley).

Children:
Frank Lester, mentioned below;
Stanley A., born January 10, 1876, died August 5, 1899.

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Lester Bruce Greene

Nathan Greene
1767-1859
Susan Alford
1774-1866
Artemus Bruce Larrabee
± 1774-1862
Olive Rose
± 1780-1845

Lester Bruce Greene
1839-1887


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    Historical events

    Birthday June 29, 1839

    • The temperature on June 29, 1839 was about 16.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: omtrent betrokken winderig bui. Source: KNMI
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      De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden werd in 1794-1795 door de Fransen veroverd onder leiding van bevelhebber Charles Pichegru (geholpen door de Nederlander Herman Willem Daendels); de verovering werd vergemakkelijkt door het dichtvriezen van de Waterlinie; Willem V moest op 18 januari 1795 uitwijken naar Engeland (en van daaruit in 1801 naar Duitsland); de patriotten namen de macht over van de aristocratische regenten en proclameerden de Bataafsche Republiek; op 16 mei 1795 werd het Haags Verdrag gesloten, waarmee ons land een vazalstaat werd van Frankrijk; in 3.1796 kwam er een Nationale Vergadering; in 1798 pleegde Daendels een staatsgreep, die de unitarissen aan de macht bracht; er kwam een nieuwe grondwet, die een Vertegenwoordigend Lichaam (met een Eerste en Tweede Kamer) instelde en als regering een Directoire; in 1799 sloeg Daendels bij Castricum een Brits-Russische invasie af; in 1801 kwam er een nieuwe grondwet; bij de Vrede van Amiens (1802) kreeg ons land van Engeland zijn koloniën terug (behalve Ceylon); na de grondwetswijziging van 1805 kwam er een raadpensionaris als eenhoofdig gezag, namelijk Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (van 31 oktober 1761 tot 25 maart 1825).
    • In the year 1839: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 2.9 million citizens.
      • January 19 » The British East India Company captures Aden.
      • July 2 » Twenty miles off the coast of Cuba, 53 kidnapped Africans led by Joseph Cinqué mutiny and take over the slave ship Amistad.
      • September 4 » Battle of Kowloon: British vessels open fire on Chinese war junks enforcing a food sales embargo on the British community in China in the first armed conflict of the First Opium War.
      • September 5 » The United Kingdom declares war on the Qing dynasty of China.
      • November 25 » A cyclone slams into south-eastern India, with high winds and a 40-foot storm surge destroying the port city of Coringa (which has never been completely rebuilt). The storm wave swept inland, taking with it 20,000 ships and thousands of people. An estimated 300,000 deaths resulted from the disaster.
      • November 27 » In Boston, Massachusetts, the American Statistical Association is founded.

    Day of death November 21, 1887

    • The temperature on November 21, 1887 was about 5.7 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 100%. Source: KNMI
    • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1887: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
      • January 20 » The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base.
      • February 2 » In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania the first Groundhog Day is observed.
      • February 8 » The Dawes Act authorizes the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into individual allotments.
      • April 28 » A week after being arrested by the Prussian Secret Police, French police inspector Guillaume Schnaebelé is released on order of William I, German Emperor, defusing a possible war.
      • July 26 » Publication of the Unua Libro, founding the Esperanto movement.
      • October 1 » Balochistan is conquered by the British Empire.
    

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