GREENE, GEORGE E.: 1861-1917.
" George E. Greene was born in Vincennes . "He attended the public schools and also St. John's page: 124[View Page 124] College, Dayton, O. , and Ceceilian College in Elizabethtown, Ky.
"He entered the office of the VINCENNES SUN in 1873, where he learned the trade of compositor, varying it with reportorial and editorial work until 1882, when he accepted a position with the Louisville COURIER-JOURNAL, where he remained one year. When he returned to Vincennes he engaged in newspaper work until 1886, when he was elected city clerk. He was twice re-elected. In 1894 Mr. Greene was elected mayor and re-elected in 1898.
"He was never married and died Jan. 19, 1917, aged fifty-six."
From Hodge–Vincennes in Picture and Story.
- History of Old Vincennes and Knox County.
Cleveland, 1911. 2
vols.
