Greene, Clement Mendell 1849 - 1881

GREENE

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Date: 9/3/2014 at 10:56:36

Decorah Republican March 17, 1881, P3 C3

MR. C. M. Greene
died early Wednesday morning, this week, at the home of his father, Mr. B. B. Greene, in this city. Only a few weeks ago he came home to recruit health that had weakened under exposure and excessive labor. It was hoped rest and nursing would prove the needed restoratives. But consumption had marked him for a victim: and he has been taken, not by insiduous{sic} steps, but by the rapid pace, which, at times this fell destroyer occasionally assumes. The circles in which he moved, lose a bright intellect, and one who promised a career of more than usual prominence. At a very early age he learned the art of telegraphy, and became at once an expert. Although just in his teens, he was operator for Gen. Thomas in the Tennessee campaign and he subsequently became one of the most skillful operators in the west. But this work was not the one he chose to follow for life. Law was selected as offering larger opportunities. He studied with Levi Bullis, Esq., in this city, was admitted, removed to Minnesotta{sp}, and, not long afterwards, became Assistant U. S. District Attorney for that State, a position he was holding when taken ill. His age was 31 years.

St. Paul Globe, March 17, 1881, P1 C6
{throughout this article the name Greene is spelled without the “e” except for his brother’s name}

Death of Clement M. Green.

It was announced in yesterday’s issue of the GLOBE that Mr. Clement M. Green, assistant United States district attorney, was lying dangerously ill at the residence of his parents in Decorah, Iowa.

Yesterday a telegram was received conveying the painful information of the death of Mr. Green, which took place early yesterday morning. Although not altogether unexpected the news will be received with painful and shocking effect by his many friends in this city.

At the time of his death the deceased was one of the brightest and most promising members of the St. Paul bar, and the life which has been cut off in the flower of manhood had before it a brilliant future. The deceased was about 28 or 29 years of age. He first came to St. Paul from Iowa about ten years ago; originally a telegraph operator he was employed in the office of the Northern Pacific railroad company, and bore the reputation of being one of the most skillful operators in the United States. He read law at the State university of Iowa and was admitted to the bar. Afterwards he returned to this city, several years ago, and entered the law office of W. W. Billson. He subsequently was associated with the district attorney, which position he held at the time of his death His disease was consumption, and although a
victim to the dread malady for two or three years, the efforts of the destroyer were not marked until a few months ago, when he commenced to rapidly fail.

He has a brother in this city, Mr. Oscar C. Greene, superintendent of the telegraph lines of the Northern Pacific Railroad company.

Transcriber’s Note: According to cemetery records Mr. Greene was born November 16, 1849 and died March 16, 1881.

Transcribed from scans of newspaper clippings provided by Laura Colton

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