To Penelope zibby@family-net.net and others researching GREEN/GREENE in Crawford County. Here are the references I found to that surname in the "History of Crawford County, PA, 1885." On pages 245 and 245, in the history of Crawford County: "One of the leading factors in building up the present flourishing dairy industries of northwestern Pennsylvania was the Dairyman's Association. On the 15th of April, 1871, the dairymen of Crawford and Erie Counties met at Venango and organized the "Crawford County Dairyman's Association," with the following officers: Joseph Blystone, President; H.C. GREENE, J.H. Blystone and Thomas Van Horne, Vice-Presidents; D.H. Gibson, Secretary; J.H. Marcy, Treasurer. The gentlemen present who organized the association were: Joseph Blystone, Thomas Van Horne, Cornelius Van Horne, William Morse, D.C. Root, D.H. Gibson, E. Chamberlain, George Thomas, J.H. Blystone, William Nash, D.M. Crouch, G.W. Cutshall, J.T. Cook, J.H. Marcy, G.N. Kleckner, H.C. GREENE, Darius Coulter, G.W. Brown, Adam Sherred, L.E. Townley, J.M. Bigger and S.F. Harned. This society accomplished but little, and June 2, 1875, was re-organized as the "Pennsylvania State Dairyman's Association," with A.M. Fuller, of Meadville, as President. At that time there were in western Pennsylvania about 100 cheese factories. owning to the fact that the association was then supported wholly by membership fees, it was unable to extend its work beyond the confines of the northwestern counties. In 1879 the proceedings of the association were published in the State Agricultural Report, for which it received from the State Agricultural Society the sum of $100. In 1880 the association secured an annual appropriation from the State of $350, and 500 copies of the report, with the privilege of using 100 pages of the report every year. Two meetings have been held annually since 1875, at which addresses have been delivered by almost every prominent dairyman in the county. These meetings have been well attended and not a single failure has occurred, while on some occasions over 500 persons were present." On page 274 of the same section: (discussion on the ground-breaking ceremonies for the French Creek Canal Feeder) "Marshal on horseback, Col. John Dick; Capt. Torbett's Company of Artillery; Capt. Berlin's Company of Light Infantry; Band of Music; President of the day, James Herrington; Orator of the day, Henry Baldwin, Jr.; Secretaries, Samuel Miles GREENE and Cyrus T. Smith, Esqs.; Superintendent, Gen. I Phillips; Engineer, I. Ferguson, Esq.; Revered Clergy; Committee of Arrangement; Persons appointed to break ground, Robert Fitz Randolph and Cornelius Van Horne; a team of seven yoke of oxen with a plow, James Fitz Randolph to hold the plow, and Samuel Lord, John Wentworth, John Ellis, and Edward Fitz Randolph to drive the oxen; eight laborers, Levi Cox, James Thorp, James porter, Robert McCurdy, Thomas Stockton, James McMath, William Johnston and R. Neal, dressed in proper costumes with implements for excavation; Contractors; two Vice-Presidents, James Burchfield and John Reynolds; Town Council; Judiciary; Gentlemen of the Bar; Sheriff and Coroner; Citizens, two and two; two Vice-Presidents, Eliphalet Betts and Samuel Torbett; Marshal on horseback, Col. Joseph Douglas." On pages 306 and 309, of the same section: "Samuel Miles GREEN came from Bellefont, Penn., about 1825, where he had read law and been admitted to practice. He was a man of strong common sense, a fair lawyer and a good speaker, but not succeeding as well as he had anticipated, he returned to his early home about 1834." More to follow! Kathy Brubaker Volunteer Genealogist Linesville Historical Society kbrbkr@toolcitiy.net