Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-04-19
AGED BRUNO
man PASSES
DR.. F. w. Greene, 80, Was
Eli for Two and One
half Years.
Was Descendant From Pre-
Revolutionary Residents
of United States.

Death again won a persistent fight
and took from this earth Tuesday
night DR.. F. w. Greene, an aged res
ident of Bruno. DR.. Greene had been
i'll for the past two and one-half years
suffering from compilations of old
age. He had suffered considerably
during the last weeks of his life.
DR.. Greene, besides being a resi-
dent of the Bruno community for 20
years where he had practiced med
icine, was a direct deScendent OF
early pioneers of the United States,
having been able to trace his anceS-
tors back to before the Revolution
airy war. He was born in Baltimore,
Maryland, on October 5, 1858, and
was yet little tot when his parents
left the Maryland city and moved
to Cincinnati, Ohio. As boy he
also lived in New York City but
spent most of his childhood years
in Boston, Mass, where he attended
public school, high school and the
College of Physicians and Surgeons
for two years. At the age of q he
passed the examination and in 1874
came west to Iowa in Crawford
county where he treated his first pa
tient on June %, 1874. There he did
a little farming on the side to make
enough money to complete his studies.
Finishes Education.
In 1885 DR.. Greene went to Mime
apolis and entered the medical de-
partment of the University of Mime
sofa, from which he graduated and
received his diploma in 1887. On Nov.
6, the same year he was married to
Miss Katherine A. Rorke of Water
town and they went to Housekeeping
in Minneapolis where the Doctor
practiced his profession for six years.
Following their Minneapolis resi-
dence the Greenes moved to Lang
ford, S. D., where they resided five
years and where DR.. Greene suffered
a breakdown in health. They moved
to Missouri where he could recup-
crate and remained in that place six
years and then moved to Waterville,
Mimi, in 1904 where they lost their
only son, Winston David, at the age
of 9, who fell from a scaffold and
died of lockjaw.
Came to Pine County i'm 1912.
In 1908 the family moved back to
South Dakota, settling at Seneca,
where they remained until 1912 when
they came to Bruno with DR.. Greene's
intention of retiring from active prac-
tice. They bought 40 acre farm
short distance northeast of town, but
the neighbors knew he was a medical
man and continually came to him for
relief. He could not resist their de-
mands upon him and gradually his
practice grew until he packed up his
belongings and with his family moved
to Murdoch in 1916. There misfor-
tune overlook the Doctor when he
suffered a broken ankle after which
he was taken ill with typhoid fever
and influenza. He recovered from
this and again returned to Bruno in
1922 where the family have made
their home since.
DR.. Greene was a member of the
Episcopal church and is survived by
his wife and one daughter, Mrs. Oscar
Eklund, of Bruno.
The funeral will be held Friday
morning at Bruno, after which the
body will be shipped to Waterville
for burial.
The sincere sympathy of a large
circle of friends from far and near
is extended to Mrs. Greene and her
daughter i'm the loss of a good hus-
band and loving father.