Representative Charles G. Greenwood View All Years

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Charles G. Greenwood

Mills County

CHARLES G. GREENWOOD was born at Abbott, Piscataquis County, Maine, May 24, 1836, and died at Silver City, Mills County, Iowa, April 7, 1929. His parents were Horace and Cordelia Greenwood. He attended common school, Foxcroft Academy, the University of Wisconsin, and Bryant & Stratton’s Commercial College, Chicago. After teaching school a few years he located on a farm in Livingston County, Illinois, in 1864, and lived there thirteen years. There he was a justice of the peace twelve years. In 1879 he removed to Silver City and bought a lumber yard which he developed and with the aid of his son, C. D. Greenwood, who was associated with him after 1889, extended it into a chain of yards in southwestern Iowa. He also bought and sold grain several years, and was one of the organizers of the Silver City State Bank in 1883 and was its president for many years. In 1906 he was elected representative and served in the Thirty-second General Assembly.

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