Bio: Greenman, G. W. (1881) 
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Surnames: Greenman, Brown

----Source: The History of Northern Wisconsin (Marathon County, Wis.) 1881, page 574

G. W. GREENMAN, lumberman, Spencer, born in Jefferson Co., N. Y., Jan. 21, 1828. In 1851, the family moved to Manitowoc County, and settled on a farm, where he remained till 1858. He then started for California, and arrived in Virginia City, when there were only twenty men there. He went on to California, from there to Virginia City again, and up to Oregon. He had about fifteen thousand dollars which he lost in prospecting for more in Idaho; he returned to California and farmed and lumbered; at one time owned 320 acres in Vera Cruz Co., Cal. He finally returned to his native county; he then logged on the Chippewa and Black rivers; and came to Spencer in 1874. In 1870, he married Miss Sarah Brown, of Manitowoc County. They have two children, Maude L., and Archie C.