History Of Delaware County Indiana T.B. Helm 1881 Surnames in this biography are: Greene, Perkins, Fleming,                                         CAPT. GEORGE W. GREENE          was born at Whitehall, Washington Co., N. Y., October 6,1820, and came to Muncie in 1832,with his parents, George W. and Charlotte Greene. The father was a carpenter and builder, and was a respected citizen of Muncie. In the winter of 1835—86,he died.  In the tenth year of his age,the subject of this biography lost a boy’s last best friend his mother who died in July 1839.  He then went to live with his uncle, Goldsmith C. Gilbert, working for him about four years.  He then worked on a farm for about fifteen months, and at the end of that time (October 6, 1844), began learning the tailor’s trade under the instructions of W. H. Perkins, at Muncie. ‘After acquiring a partial knowledge of the trade, he started out “on a tramp,”visiting Logansport La Fayette, Delphi, Terre Haute and other cities and towns in the course of his wanderings. Returning to Muncie, he opened a custom merchant tailoring establishment, and prosecuted his trade successfully until the outbreak of the late rebellion.  In June 1861, he enlisted as a private soldier in Company E, Nineteenth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and was mustered into the United States service with his regiment on the 29th of July 1861. On the same day, he received a First Lieutenant’s commission, and on the 5th of April 1863 was promoted to the captaincy of the company.         His experiences are detailed in the military history of this volume and form an interesting chapter. He was confined in a rebel prison fur twenty months, and subjected to all the fiendish cruelties that characterized the treatment of Union men in those vile dens. He was discharged at Washington, in April 1865, and reached Muncie on the night of President Lincoln’s assassination. In October 1866, he was elected by the Republicans of Delaware County to the office of Clerk of the Circuit Court. At the close of his first term, be was nominated a second time, and re-elected in October 1870,his last term expiring in August 1875. He is well known throughout this city and county, and is universally recognized as an honorable, worthy citizen. On the 6th day of October 1851 he was united in marriage with Miss Nancy H.Fleming, daughter of Silas Fleming, then a resident of New Paris, Ohio.  She died in December 1857.  The subsequent marriage of the only daughter, Ella L. and her removal to the State of Illinois, left the father alone in the world, without the comfort of a family, and with an aching void in his heart that time cannot heal.