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1909, Abraham Greenberg entered the University of Nebraska, from which he was awarded his B. Sc. in 1913, and his M. D. in 1915. During 1918 he attended the Neurological Institute at New York City. He is a member of Phi Delta Epsilon. He was married to Blooma Kogan at Minneapolis, on June 14, 1922. Mrs. Greenberg, who was born at Minneapolis, on December 14, 1901, is of Russian Jewish descent. They have three children, Beverly Ramona, born April 6, 1923; Renee Joyce, born December 8, 1924, and Phylliss Doretto, born October 21, 1928.
Upon his admission to practice in 1915, Dr. Greenberg took up the active practice of medicine. From 1919-25 he was a member of the surgical staff at the University of Nebraska, and has been a member of the staff of Wise Memorial Hospital since 1917. He is now associate member of the staff of Clarkson Memorial Hospital. From 1917-19 he was first lieutenant in the Medical Corps, attached to American Red Cross Medical Hospital No. 5, Base Hospital No. 49, and commanding officer Ambulance Company No. 157. He is a member of the American Legion and the Forty and Eight.
Dr. Greenberg is a member of the Conservative Jewish Synagogue of Omaha, and is extremely active in Jewish welfare and social work. He is a member of the executive committee of the Jewish Welfare Federation and in 1929 was first vice president of the Jewish Philanthropies. A director of the Jewish Community Center, serving from 1925-30, he is a member of the Hebrew Club and B'nai Brith.
His professional organizations include the Douglas County Medical Society, the Elkhorn Valley Medical Society, the Association of Military Surgeons and the American Medical Association of which he is a fellow. He is a member of the Red Cross, the Dundee Parent-Teachers Association, the Modern Woodmen of America, and the Odd Fellows. His clubs include the Omaha Athletic Club, and the Highland Country Club. His sport is golf and his favorite recreation is bridge. Residence: Omaha.
Robert James Greene
Robert James Greene, lawyer, was born at Delphi, Indiana, October 22, 1862, son of James Wilson and Catherine Elizabeth (Organ) Greene. He has the degrees of A. B., LL. B., and A. M., and has been in active practice in Lincoln for many years.
On December 9, 1887, he was married to Maude Miller at Lafayette, Indiana. She was born there on December 7, 1861. Mr. Greene is a Republican. He is a member of the American, Nebraska State and Lancaster County Bar Association, and of the Chamber of Commerce, the University Club, the Red Deer Club and the Lincoln Country Club. Residence: Lincoln.
R. R. Greenland
As a pioneer rancher and farmer of Nebraska, R. R. Greenland came to Nebraska nearly 60 years ago, enduring all the privations and hardships of the early days in the middlewest and taking an active part in the building of the state. He was born at Colfax, Pennsylvania, August 22, 1853, the son of Ezra and Elizabeth (Madden) Greenland. His father, who was a farmer and laborer, was born at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in October, 1819, and died at Colfax, in December, 1891. His mother was born at Orlisonia, Pennsylvania, in 1823, and died at Colfax, August 1, 1870; her ancestry was Irish.
Mr. Greenland worked in the mines of Pennsylvania during his boyhood, and for eight years was a cowhand in Nebraska; since then he has been engaged in ranching in Blaine County, Nebraska. He is president of the Purdum State Bank, at Purdum, Nebraska, is a member of the Nebraska State Historical Society, and holds membership in the Nebraskana Society.
He was married at Ord, Nebraska, in January, 1883.
Mrs. Greenland was born in Webster County, Iowa June 14, 1865. The following children were borne to them: Richard J., born November 8, 1883; George W., born August 12, 1885, who died October 8, 1885; Albert E., born September 12, 1886, who married Henrietta Marsburg; Robert N., born September 12, 1889, who died September 16, 1891; Ruth H., born December 1891, who died in June, 1904; Ruby E., born December, 2, 1896, who died in June 1904; and Harold W., borne March 5, 1900, who died in August, 1902. Residence: Purdum.
David Westbrook Greenleaf
A banker for more than thirty years, David Westbook Greenleaf was born at Wolowich, Maine, November 4, 1870, son of Silas Holt and Arabella Augusta (Farnham) Greenleaf. Silas, who was born at Westport, Maine, April 5, 1832, was a sea captain twenty-five years, and in later life came to Nebraska where he engaged in farming. He died at Tekamah in 1902. Of English descent, his ancestors came to America in 1632, settling at Newburyport, Massachusetts, and were active in the early life of New England.
Arabella Farnham Greenleaf was born at Woolwich, Maine, November 13, 1843, and died at Los Angeles, May 1, 1920. As a young woman she taught in the public schools of Bath, Maine. She was also descended from early English settlers in New England.
David Westbrook Greenleaf was graduated from Tekamah High School in 1888 and from Western Normal Business College at Shenandoah, Iowa, in 1890. He has been a banker practically all the time since leaving school, and was first associated with the First National Bank of Tekamah. Later he served with the Chelsea, Michigan, Savings Bank four years, and for the past twenty-five years has been connected with the Farmers State Bank of Tekamah, of which he is now president.
On June 12 1901, he was united in marriage to Ida Dorothea Schumacher at Chelsea, Michigan. Mrs. Greenleaf, who was born at Chelsea, February 1, 1875, was a saleswoman and manager of the silk department of a department store before her marriage. Her father was born in Germany and her mother in Ann Arbor, Michigan. There are three children of this marriage, Mariane Enid, born February 2, 1904, who is a teacher; Ruth Schleicher, born May 13, 1905, who is a stenographer and bookkeeper and Dorothy Augusta, born January 30, 1907, who is a teacher.
Mr. Greenleaf is a Republican, and active in party politics. He was local chairman for enlistment in the Citizen's Military Training Camps for a number of years, and local treasurer of the Red Cross and chairman for all bond issues and savings stamps drives in Tekamah during the late war.
For ten years he was a member of the school board, and he is at the present time a member of the First Presbyterian Church, the Chamber of Commerce, the State Young Men's Christian Association, the Odd Fellows, Odd Fellows Encampment and the Rebekahs. During his early life Mr. Greenleaf taught in the country schools in the winter and farmed in the summer. He is fond of reading. Residence: Tekamah.
Walter Lee Greenslit
Born at Surprise, Butler County, Nebraska, March 5, 1885, Walter Lee Greenslit is the son of Walter Henry and Catherine Cecelia (Ammerman) Greenslit. His father was born at Scotland, Connecticut, September 30, 1855, and has been engaged in the lumber business at Surprise for nearly half a century. One of the oldest lumbermen in the state in point of service, he is also engaged in the banking business. The family came from England between 1620 and 1666, one line on the filet flower, settling at Plymouth, Barnstable, Andover and
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Lynn Massachusetts. Walter Henry Greenslit's wife, Catherine, was born at Asbury, Pennsylvania, January 13, 1852, and died at Surprise, December 9, 1928. A teacher for ten years prior to her marriage, she was one of the founders and an active worker in the Methodist Church and a charter member of the Womans Christian Temperance Union. Her ancestors came from Holland and England and were early settlers in New York City, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Walter Lee Greenslit attended the public and high schools of Surprise, and was graduated from Nebraska Wesleyan Academy in 1904. In 1908 he received a B. A. degree each from the University of Nebraska and Nebraska Wesleyan University. At Nebraska Wesleyan he was editor in chief of the Coyote, treasurer of the Athletic Association, member of the Y. M. C. A. Cabinet, and Everett Fraternity, and was a member of the committee that established the first fraternity house in Nebraska Wesleyan. At the University of Nebraska he was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon and a member of the editorial staff of the Daily Nebraskan. Active in athletics, he was a member of the baseball team 1906, 1907, and the basketball team, 1907, at Nebraska Wesleyan.
On December 30, 1908, he was married to Mollie Hannah Stewart at Surprise. Mrs. Greenslit was born at Warren, Minnesota, January 27, 1886. She is a former teacher and a great granddaughter of Joseph Stewart who in 1815 was commended by the 14th Congress for distinguished service in the War of 1812. They have one son, Frank Stewart, born September 26, 1912, a freshman at the University of Nebraska, and member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
Mr. Greenslit's career began in 1908 when he served as high school principal at Gothenburg, Nebraska. From 1909-13 he was principal and later superintendent of schools at Scottsbluff. In 1913-14 he was an instructor in the Lincoln High School, leaving to become credit man for the University Publishing Company of which he became secretary-treasurer in 1916. He still holds that office in addition to the following: secretary-treasurer Superior School Supply Company, Kansas City, Missouri; secretary Greenslit Lumber Company of Ravenna, Nebraska, Stapleton, Stanton and Ashland; president of the Everett Building Society and treasurer of the Business Education Bureau. He is a former editor of the Nebraska Teacher.
On October 14, 1903, he enlisted in the second regiment band of the National Guard and was discharged on October 13, 1906. During the World War he assisted in Loan drives, Red Cross and other activities. He is a member of the California Society of Coloniel Wars; the Lincoln City Mission (board of directors); the Chamber of Commerce of which he has served on various committees; the Nebraska Society of Mayflower Descendants, etc.
A Kiwanian since the organization of the club, he has served on many of its committees, and he is a charter member of the Lincoln Hiram Club and past president of Hiram International. Since 1920 he has been a trustee of Nebraska Wesleyan University, and is a member of the executive committee. A member of the Nebraska State Teachers Association, of which he was district president, the Alumni Association of the University of Nebraska, he is also a member and past president of the Alumni Association of Nebraska Wesieyan. He is a Republican.
His professional memberships include the Lincoln branch of the National Credit Men's Association, of which he is ex-president; the National School Supply Association, etc. He is an honorary member of the Linoln Musicians Union, and a member of the Young Men's Christian Association. A member of St. Paul's Methodist Epsicopal Church, he is also a member of its official board.
Mr. Greenslit enjoys baseball, basketball, football and hiking. His hobby is genealogy. Residence: Lincoln.
Edwin Stanton Gregg
Edwin S. Gregg was born of a pioneer Nebraska family, at Nebraska City, October 25, 1861. James Harrington Gregg, his father, who was born at Wheeling, Ohio County, Virginia, April 20, 1820, and died near Nebraska City, October, 1888, was one of Nebraska City's leading citizens for many years. In 1854 he established the Platt Valley Nursery, and later platted and owned the Greggsport Addition to the city. He served as mayor of Nebraska City in 1858. His ancestry was Scotch.
Elizabeth Jane (Bloss) Gregg, his wife, who was born in Treble County, Ohio, November 18, 1830, and died at San Jose, California, July, 1914, was descended from early Pennsylvania Dutch ancestors.
Mr. Gregg has lived in Nebraska City all his life, and is an electrician there at the present time. His marriage to Jesse Tait was solemnized at Council Bluffs, Iowa, November 29, 1913. Mrs. Gregg was born near Nebraska City, October 21, 1886. Her grandfather, James Nelson Tait, was a member of the firm Ashton & Tait, merchants whose brick store building was south of the new Waugonsie Mridge at Nebraska City. He was wharfmaster and had charge of all boats that landed there. Mr. and Mrs. Gregg have three children: Dorothy, born February 21, 1915; Elizabeth, born October 18, 1916; and Paul Stanton, born January 25, 1919.
He is a member of the Fourteenth Street School Parent-Teachers' Association. His family is affiliated with St. Mary's Episcopal Church. Residence: Nebraska City.
Fred Marion Gregg
Fred Marion Gregg, head of the department of psychology of Nebraska Wesleyan University was born at Nevada, Ohio, March 7, 1867, son of William Smith and Louisa Jane (Welty) Gregg.
He received his A. B. degree from Ohio Northern University in 1894, and his A. M. from the University of Chicago in 1915. He attended the University of Nebraska, 1929-31.
On June 30, 1898, he was married to Carrie Pettis Cockerill at Washington Court House, Ohio. She was born at Lincoln, Missouri, December 18, 1868. Their children are: Genevieve, born August 21, 1899, who married Frank W. Hubbard; Otis, born March 15, 1904; and Helen, born April 19, 1905, who married Arthur Von Thaden.
Professor Gregg is the author of Manual of Parlimentary Law (1910); Hygiene as Nature Study (1917); Hygiene by Experiment (1923) ; Courses of Study in Character and Health Education in Nebraska (1927), revised (1929), etc. He was president of the Nebraska State Teachers Association 1917-19, chairman of child hygiene station, Parent Teachers Association of Nebraska 1930, and is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Psychological Association, the First Methodist Episcopal Church, etc. Residence: Lincoln.
George Albert Gregory
George A. Gregory was born at Hillsdale, Michigan, November 19, 1851, the son of George and Jane (Bross) Gregory. His father, who was a farmer, was born in Jackson County, New York, 1826, and died at Council Bluffs, Iowa, in 1912; his Scotch ancestors were members of the Alpine Clan. His mother was born in Cattaraugus County, New York, and died at Crete, Saline County, Nebraska, October, 1881; her Dutch ancestors, who settled in Pennsylvania in the early history of the country, served in the Revolution.
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graduated from the Crete High School in 1878. He was awarded his A. B. degree at Doane College in 1882. He helped to organize Gates College at Neligh, Nebraska, and for a time was at the head of the institution; he was botany instructor in addition to his executive duties. In 1894 he moved to Oregon where he was superintendent of schools for three years at Medford, and was county superintendent for two years.
Returning to Crete, in 1900, he was superintendent of public schools and during the summer months was a student at Amherst University, Chicago University, and Yale, where he specialized in mathematics, botany, and German. He was active in debating during his college days, and was a member of the Hesperian Society. In 1909 he was appointed normal training inspector for Nebraska normal schools and traveled throughout the state visiting all the accredited schools. In 1916 he was recalled to Crete to serve as superintendent of schools; he remained in this capacity until 1919 when he retired to the Bonivu Gardens to engage in growing flowers, plants, shrubbery, and trees.
He was united in marriage with Mary Mattrassa Foss at Crete, December 16, 1884. Mrs. Gregory, who was born at Grafton, New Hampshire, November 22, 1858, was graduated from Doane College in 1881, and taught school before her marriage. She is of Scotch and English descent. They have two children: Annadora, born April 15, 1893, who will receive her Ph. D. degree at the University of Nebraska this year; and Mary Alberta, born March 26, 1898, who married E. J. Stowell of Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Mr. Gregory is a member of the Knights of Pythias, the Knights and Ladies of Security. He is a trustee of Doane College and is a member of the committee for developing the grounds and buildings of the campus. He is a member of the Nebraskana Society. He is affiliated with the First Congregational Church of Crete. His hobby is horticulture. He is a Republican. Mr. Gregory has lived in Nebraska for 58 years, and has made many projects for the development of education.
In 1904 the Crete Plan in Domestic Science was developed by him and was successfully used in many states, was recognized by leading educators and was discussed in articles in newspapers and educational magazines all over the United States. He introduced basketball in the Crete schools in 1901; Omaha and Lincoln schools were the only other schools in Nebraska where the game was played at that time. Mr. Gregory has developed a method of addition which is used successfully in many schools. Residence: Crete.
Emmett H. Gribble
A banker and farmer for many years, Emmett H. Gribble was born in Decatur County, Iowa, May 1, 1865. His parents, both of whom are deceased were Barnabas and Ellen (Walden) Gribble. Barnabas Gribble, who was a farmer of English descent, died at Dakota City, Nebraska, May 28, 1916. His wife, a native of Ohio, died in Dakota City, March 26, 1889. She was of German and Irish extraction.
Emmett H. Gribble was educated in rural schools. Now retired he was a successful farmer for many years, and later engaged in banking. At the present time he is president of the Nebraska State Bank at South Sioux City. He was married to Ida M. Savidge at South Sioux City on May 31, 1893, and to them two children were born, Harold, born May 29, 1894, who married Gertrude Hubbell; and Emmett, born April 2, 1896, who died July 2, 1896. Harold is a graduate of the University of Nebraska.
Mr. Gribble is a Democrat and active in local politics. A resident of the state 65 years, he has taken much interest in its development. Among other things he has served as a member of the Board of Education, is a member of the board of elders of the First Presbyterian Church, and is a member of the Commercial Club. His fraternal affiliations include the Modern Woodmen of America, the Woodmen of the World and the Modern Brotherhood of America. His hobby is mechanics. Residence: South Sioux City. (Photograph in Album).
David Gurney Griffiths
For the past fourteen years superintendent of the Lincoln State Hospital, David Gurney Griffiths is an outstanding member of the medical profession. He was born at Verdon, Nebraska, November 27, 1875, son of David and Mary Ellen (Young) Griffiths. His father who was born at Sugar Creek, Pennsylvania, October 27, 1845, was a farmer, who came to Nebraska just after, the Civil War. His parents came to America from Wales about a year prior to his birth. His wife, Mary Ellen, was born in Ridgeway, Wisconsin, August 20, 1851. The father died at Verdon on November 6, 1918, and the mother on October 19, 1925.
Dr. Griffiths attended the Verdon High School and thereafter the Peru State Normal School for two years. He was graduated from the medical department of the University of Nebraska with an M. D. in 1902. On June 25 of the same year he was married to Nora May Moore at Wymore, Nebraska. She was born at Blue Rapids, Kansas, May 18, 1877, and was a teacher of Dutch, Irish and Scotch descent. They have one son, Heath, born September 20, 1903. He is married to Blanche Martz. He and his wife are both graduates of the University, she having also been graduated from the conservatory. Heath is a member of Delta Tau Delta, and at present is an undertaker in Lincoln. His wife is a member of Alpha Phi sorority. They have one child, Joyce M., born December 6, 1929.
From 1913 to 1916 Dr. Griffiths was a member of the staff of Lincoln State Hospital; and from February 1, 1916, to November 1, 1919, was superintendent of the Institution for the Feebleminded at Beatrice. Returning to Lincoln in 1919 he was made superintendent of Lincoln State Hospital, which position he still holds. He is active in the Red Cross and state and county welfare work. and is a member of the American Medical Association, the Lancaster County Medical Association, the District Psychiatric Association, and in 1917 was president of the Gage County Medical Society.
Since 1917, he has been a member of the Rotary Club. A Blue Lodge, Scottish Rite Mason and member of the Shrine, he is also a member of the Nebraska Art Association, the Lincoln Chamber of Commerce, the Nebraskana Society and the Young Men's Christian Association. His hobby is reading and his club is the Shrine Country. Residence: Lincoln.
Kirk Griggs
Kirk Griggs was born at Beatrice, Gage County, Nebraska, January 8, 1878, the son of Lewis Theodore Griggs and Carrie Edith (Gale) Griggs. His father was a lawyer and rancher in Wyoming, and served as county attorney of Weston County, Wyoming for several years. He was a soldier in the 11th Indiana Cavalry in the Civil War. He was descended from Mayflower pilgrims; one of his ancestors was a soldier in the Revolution. He was born at Jefferson City, Indiana, April 17, 1841, and died at Newcastle, Weston County, Wyoming, November 9, 1907.
His mother was born in Pennsylvania, and at an early age was left an orphan. She was the first school teacher in Gage County, Nebraska. She died at Atchison, Kansas, June 11, 1885.
Mr. Griggs attended the public schools of Beatrice and Lincoln, Nebraska, and was later graduated from the high school at Newcastle. Since a university course was not available he finished his higher education through private instruction and correspondence courses.
He entered the business world as auditor for the Kilpatrick Brothers Company at Beatrice. He was cashier of the First National Bank at Hastings; was secretary of
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