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and genial disposition have brought him
many friends, who esteem him as highly
for his fellow feeling as for his ability.
Mr. Greene married, October 16, 1905,
in St. John's Episcopal Church. Bridgeport,
Louise Klein, a native of New York
City, but a resident of Bridgeport since
her second year ; she is the daughter of
John and Catherine (Riehl) Klein, both
deceased. John Klein was born in New
York City, wherein he was for many
years an undertaker.
HOUSE, Albert Hammond,
Man of Affairs, Legislator.
Albert Hammond House, one of the
principal figures in the business world of
Hartford, Connecticut, and a very successful
real estate and insurance man
there, comes of good old New England
stock, both his father and grandfather
having been natives of the State of Vermont.
He is a son of Frederick C. and
Mary S. (Viets) House, his father having
been born at St. Johnsbury, Vermont, in
the year 1843, where his grandfather, Albert
Hammond House, was a well-known
and much respected Baptist minister. He
was born in St. Johnsbury. in 1802, and
lived there all his life. Frederick C.
House, on the contrary, left his native
place when a young man and came to
Connecticut, where he married Mary S.
Viets, a daughter of Samuel C. Viets, and a
native of Suffield, Connecticut, where she
was born on March 17, 1846. Her father,
Samuel C. Viets, was a native of Granby,
Connecticut, where he was born in the
year 1800, and a member of an old and
distinguished family. Frederick C. House
and his wife were the parents of two sons
and a daughter.
Born June 12, 1870, at Windsor, Con-
necticut, on his father's farm, Albert
Hammond House has made this region
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his home ever since. As a child he
attended the local public schools and
afterwards spent two years in the Wind-
sor High School. The two years following
he attended the Williston Seminary
at Easthampton, Massachusetts, and here
completed his formal education. Immediately
thereafter he returned to Wind-
sor, where he engaged in the tobacco
business, continuing in this line until the
year 1906. During that time he met with
considerable success, but he perceived in
the rapid growth of the community where
he dwelt and the consequent rise of land
values there that the real estate field of-
fered opportunity which very few others
possessed. Accordingly, he established
himself in a real estate and insurance
business, which he has continued up to
the present time. During the eleven
years in which he has been thus engaged,
Mr. House has met with a remarkable
success and now is at the head of one of
the largest businesses of its kind in the
community. His operations have gradu-
ally extended from Windsor as a center,
not only all over Hartford county, but
throughout the whole of Northern Con-
necticut. He is considered in all that
region an expert on real estate values and
few men are more conversant with the
situation than he is. He has his office at
Hartford as well as at Windsor, and since
the opening of his establishment, eleven
years ago, has sold in all over three hundred
and fifty properties in Windsor
alone. His wide knowledge of property
values has been recognized to such an
extent that he is now retained as an
appraiser for five different banking insti-
tutions, and also does much appraisal
work for the Superior Court in Hartford
county. Since he has been dealing in this
line, Mr. House has found many opportunities
for the investment of his own
money in valuable property in this sec-