S. R. Greene From History of Grant County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 889 - 890.

LANCASTER

S. R. GREENE, proprietor of livery stable, Lancaster. Commenced business in April, 1879, buying out J. Kilbourn, keeps fourteen horses, and does a prosperous business. Mr. Greene is a native of Potosi, Grant Co., a son of A. J. and Sarah (Lyons) Greene. Mr. Greene attended the schools of Potosi, which he left at the age of 15, and went into the stage business. Having a natural taste for horses, he continued in the business, and, in 1870, commenced running a daily stage-line from Potosi to Dubuque until 1873, when the D., C. & D. & M. R. R., was completed to Spechts' Ferry. Having been taken in by his brother as a partner, they then ran a daily stage from Specht's Ferry to Lancaster, which they afterward discontinued and bought the stable in Lancaster in December, 1878. Mr. Greene was married April 22, 1879.

 


This biography generously submitted by Roxanne Munns.