Biography -- Greene, Sam.

Christ of the Hills Monastery (Blanco, Tex.)

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Greene, Samuel, 1835-1921

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Congregational clergyman and missionary; b. in Boston, Mass.; son of a Congregational minister, he worked on family farm and moved to Vermont in 1852 and in 1856 to Iowa; looked for job opportunities in Tennessee, Arkansas, and St. Louis, Mo., before returning to Iowa to marry Sarah Elizabeth (Lizzie) Moore in 1861; then lived in Chicago but moved to Olympia, Wash., by 1873; employed by various odd jobs before becoming ordained as a Congregational clergyman in 1880 and in 1887 the Congregational...