Sacramento County Biographies

CHRISTOPHER GREEN

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
Page 283-284.
 
	of Green & Trainor, proprietors of the Empire Market, 
Sacramento, was born in Ireland in 1830. In 1844 he crossed the water to New 
York City, and engaged in butchering until 1852, and then came to California, 
via Nicaragua. He spent eight months in San Francisco and then came to 
Sacramento. In 1855 he formed the present partnership, and located at the 
present stand. The firm has an extensive stock and grain ranch of nine thousand 
acres. Mr. Green married Miss Alice Toland, in December, 1858, a native of 
Ireland. They have had eight children, of whom four daughters and two sons are 
living. Mr. Green was twice Mayor of the city, and for six years a member of the 
Board of Directors State Agricultural Society. 
 
Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by 
Thompson & West.