Homer Greene

Background

Greene, Homer was born on January 10, 1853 in Lake Ariel, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Giles and Harriet L. (Schenck) Greene.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Civil Engineer, Union College, 1876, Doctor of Letters, 1906. Bachelor of Laws, Albany Law School, 1878.

Career

Began practice at Honesdale, Pennsylvania, 1879. Member Greene & Male. Director, treasurer Honesdale Cemetery Company.

Director Honesdale National Bank.

Active in Pennsylvania politics. Author: (poems) What My Lover Said.

My Daughter Louise. The Banner of the Sea.

Street Peter, 1927; What My Lover Said (book of collected poems), 1931. (prose) The Blind Brother, 1887.

Burnham Breaker, 1887. Coal and the Coal Mines, 1889, revised edit, 1928.

The Riverpark Rebellion, 1892.

A Tale of a Towpath, 1892. Whispering Tongues, 1902. Pickett’s Gap, 1902; A Lincoln Conscript, 1909.

Handicapped, the Story of a White-Haired Boy, 1915.

The Unhallowed Harvest, 1917. The Flag, 1917; The Guardsman, 1919.

Home: Honesdale, Pennsylvania

Achievements

• Homer Greene has been listed as a notable author, lawyer by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member Greene & Male.

Connections

Married Matilda East. Gilbert, September 1883 (died 1884). Married second, Catherine Gaines, June 30, 1886. Children: Giles Pollard, Margaret Harriet.

Father:

Giles Greene

Mother:

Harriet L. (Schenck) Greene

Spouse:

Matilda East. Gilbert

Spouse:

Catherine Gaines

child:

Giles Pollard Greene

child:

Margaret Harriet Greene