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Village:Alfred, ME Source:bios:128

id 128
firstname [George] Henry
lastname Green
birthyr 1844
deathyr 1931
bio Green, [George] Henry (1844-1931), was elder of the Church F. at Alfred, ME, from 1896 until 1931. He was born in St. John, New Brunswick, Canada. He joined the Shakers at Alfred, ME, together with his brother, Frederick, as a boy of fifteen, in 1859. He came under care of Elder Joshua H. Bussell, from whom he learned all the trades needed at the saw and grist mills, tanyard, wood tyrning and joinery, manufacturing wagon wheels and wagon beds, harvesting timber, and framing. At the age of eighteen, he was placed in charge of the Boys' order, through 1863, when he became 2nd Elder, with Elder Joshua (until 1872), and then with Br. John Vance (until 1896), also serving as trustee or deacon from 1896 to 1927, and as a schoolteacher (in 1864). In the 1860's he, together with Br. James Pender, planted an apple orchard behind the Trustees Office, and did most of the pruning and harvesting. An elder at Alfred for more than thirty years (1896-1931), he also served as a cabinetmaker, carpenter, purchasing agent, and salesman for fifty years, and as commercial manager. From his friends in the World he gained his nickname, "the Old Man of the Mountains." He was also involved, among other things, in furniture design. Cabinetmaking preoccupied him between approximately 1870 and 1890; he made sewing desks, tailor's bunks, looms, a cheese press, bookcases, secretaries, wood-carriers, oval boxes, and other small items for the Alfred community. He lived there until it closed in the spring of 1931 and was moved with the remaining twenty-one members to Sabbath day Lake, ME, where he died in September of that year. He was called by Elder Otis Sawyer "a very ingenious useful brother." (Br. Arnold Hadd, 1993.)

	id	128
	firstname	[George] Henry
	lastname	Green
	birthyr	1844
	deathyr	1931
	bio	Green, [George] Henry (1844-1931), was elder of the Church F. at Alfred, ME, from 1896 until 1931. He was born in St. John, New Brunswick, Canada. He joined the Shakers at Alfred, ME, together with his brother, Frederick, as a boy of fifteen, in 1859. He came under care of Elder Joshua H. Bussell, from whom he learned all the trades needed at the saw and grist mills, tanyard, wood tyrning and joinery, manufacturing wagon wheels and wagon beds, harvesting timber, and framing. At the age of eighteen, he was placed in charge of the Boys' order, through 1863, when he became 2nd Elder, with Elder Joshua (until 1872), and then with Br. John Vance (until 1896), also serving as trustee or deacon from 1896 to 1927, and as a schoolteacher (in 1864). In the 1860's he, together with Br. James Pender, planted an apple orchard behind the Trustees Office, and did most of the pruning and harvesting. An elder at Alfred for more than thirty years (1896-1931), he also served as a cabinetmaker, carpenter, purchasing agent, and salesman for fifty years, and as commercial manager. From his friends in the World he gained his nickname, "the Old Man of the Mountains." He was also involved, among other things, in furniture design. Cabinetmaking preoccupied him between approximately 1870 and 1890; he made sewing desks, tailor's bunks, looms, a cheese press, bookcases, secretaries, wood-carriers, oval boxes, and other small items for the Alfred community. He lived there until it closed in the spring of 1931 and was moved with the remaining twenty-one members to Sabbath day Lake, ME, where he died in September of that year. He was called by Elder Otis Sawyer "a very ingenious useful brother." (Br. Arnold Hadd, 1993.)