Thanks to Nancee Seifert Green County Iowa Biography Project WILLIAM R. GREENE, farmer, section 14, Greenbrier Township, is a native of County Down, Ireland, born December l9, 1832. His parents, Robert and Mary (Tweedie) Greene, had seven children, of whom our subject was the second child. When he was fourteen years of age his parents removed to Dundee, Scotland, where he lived six years, working in a flax factory. At the age of twenty he came to the United States and located in Whitley County, Indiana, where he lived about seventeen years, engaged in railroading. In 1868 he came to this county, first settling three miles south of Jefferson, where he lived eight years, having purchased eighty acres of land. In 1876 he came to Greenbrier Township and settled upon his present farm, where he has since resided. He first bought 160 acres, and has since added to his original purchase until he now owns 240 acres of excellent land, well improved and in a good state of cultivation. He has a good house, well furnished, and comfortable out-buildings for stock and grain. He also has a fine orchard and a native grove of five acres. He is engaged in general farming, stock-raising and feeding. He was married in December, 1850, to Miss Mary Elliott, a native ofIreland, and a daughter of Thomas and Margaret (Hill) Elliott. Mr. and Mrs. Greene have eight children -- Robert, George G., Maggie, Mary Jane, Elizabeth, Samuel E., William H. and Rose Alice. Mrs. Greene died October 8, 1884. Mr. Greene is a Republican in politics, and is a worthy and consistent member of the Presbyterian Church, always taking an active interest in the advancement of education and religion.