San Joaquin County Biographies


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FRANK T. GREEN.
 
        A wide-awake, painstaking official of San Joaquin County whose extensive 
and valuable practical experience constantly enables him to render service as 
efficient as it is willing, is Frank T. Green, the county horticultural 
inspector for the Lodi district, residing at 105 North Hutchins Street, Lodi. He 
was born on a farm near Cambridge Junction in Lamoille County, Vt., on October 
20, 1871, and as a young man followed farming in the Green Mountain state until 
1896, when he went into Boston. He was then at the age of twenty-five, and he 
was for a while employed by the Boston Street Railroad. Returning to his native 
state, he took up farming for a year, and then he engaged in liverying, under 
such conditions, for example, that in some winters there were 150 days and more 
of continuous sleighing. He rented out sleighs, and did a lively business; but 
in time he tired of the long, severe seasons and decided to change climate. 
Coming to California in 1907, he settled at Lodi, and for five years he engaged 
in selling insurance, and then, in 1912, he was offered and accepted his present 
position with the County Horticultural Commission. In summer he inspects fruit 
and in winter he superintends the extermination of rodents, squirrels, and 
weeds, which handicap agriculturists.     Understanding his business, he has 
proven a valuable assistant. While in Lamoille County, Vt., he served as a 
deputy sheriff, and his experience enables him at times to render aid in behalf 
of law and order.
        In 1920, Mr. Green bought a Tokay vineyard of twenty acres which in a 
short time he sold at a handsome profit; and at present he owns another ranch of 
twenty acres northeast of Lodi, where he has seventeen acres in Tokay grapes, 
and three acres in Muir peaches. He was made a Mason in Waterman Lodge No. 83, 
A. F. & A. M. at Johnson, Vt., demitting to Lodi Lodge No. 256, F. & A. M.
 
History of San Joaquin County, California � Los Angeles, Historic Record Co., 
1923
p     1600     
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler.