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Jannie W. Richmond, born in Halifax,
Massachusetts, October 12, i85i,a daughter
of Andrew and Harriet N. (Waterman)
Richmond, of that town. To Mr.
and Mrs. Parker four children have been
born, as follows : Arthur, at Poughkeepsie,
New York, September 6, 1877; Andrew
Richmond, at Poughkeepsie, New
York, June 12, 1881 ; Robert Lyman, at
Halifax, Massachusetts, July 16, 1886, and
Priscilla, at Halifax, Massachusetts, May
21, 1891, who became the wife of Diman
Lockwood, of Topsfield, Massachusetts.
GREENE, Charles Farnum,
Journalist, Postal Official.
Charles Farnum Greene, postmaster of
Bridgeport, Connecticut, is a native of
that city, born June 17, 1879, son of William
Henry and Sarah Jane (Tucker)
Greene. Heredity, undoubtedly, has been
a factor of some importance in the quali-
ties Charles Farnum Greene has mani-
fested, for he had among his ancestors
some of substantial prominence and
weighty achievement in their day. His
antecedents connect him with the Johnson
and Tucker families, both of which hold
distinguished place in Colonial history,
the progenitor of the Johnson family
having been one of the founders of New
Haven, Connecticut, and the Tucker fam-
ily trace back to the seventeenth century.
Henry Pierce Greene, paternal grandfather
of Charles Farnum Greene, was
born in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, and
there spent his entire life as an educator,
having been a man of superior intellect
and honorable bearing, and he acquired
the esteem of his fellow-citizens. He
married, February 23, 1815, in Smithfield,
Rhode Island, Nancy Chillson, born
December 19, 1790, in that town, daugh-
ter of John and Sarah (Newland) Chill-
son, the former named having been born
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April 24, 1755, in Smithfield, son of Jo-
seph and Sarah Chillson.
William Henry Greene, son of Henry
Pierce and Nancy (Chillson) Greene, was
born on a sailing vessel anchored off
Whitestone, Long Island, New York,
1833, and his death occurred in San Fran-
cisco, California, 1898. He was a sculptor
by occupation, operating at Woon-
socket, Rhode Island. He responded to
President Lincoln's first call for seventy-
five thousand men, enlisting in and be-
coming corporal of Company A, Twelfth
Regiment, Rhode Island Infantry, and
participated in the battle of Bull Run, in
which engagement he was wounded.
Upon recovery, he was attached to the
staff of General Burnside, as mounted
orderly, and subsequently saw considerable
service during the Peninsula campaign.
From the termination of the war
until his decease he was in the honored
ranks of the Civil War Veterans. He
married (first) in Woonsocket, Rhode
Island, a Miss Cook, who bore him three
children : Eva, who became the wife of
William Furrey, of Los Angeles, Cali-
fornia ;
Minerva, unmarried, who resides
in Los Angeles, California ; Herbert, a
resident of San Francisco, California. He
married (second) Sarah Jane Tucker, of
Bridgeport, Connecticut, daughter of
John and Marietta (Peet) Tucker, of
Huntington, Connecticut, and a repre-
sentative of an old Connecticut family.
John Tucker was born at Seymour, Connecticut,
and died at Bridgeport, Connec-
ticut, aged about fifty years. He was a
member of the Second Company, First
Corps, Fourth Connecticut Artillery, in
1830. He was a mason and builder by
occupation. Mr. and Mrs. Tucker were
the parents of two children, Sarah Jane,
aforementioned, and Frederick, both now
deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Greene were the