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In early life Herman H. Greene went to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and entered the counting-room of Alexander Ladd, a merchant.

While at Portsmouth, he frequently was sent on errands to the vessels lying at the wharves, and the associations thus contracted awakened a desire for maritime life. Determined to be a sailor, he began his career by going before the mast.

Adaptation and faithfulness secured him promotion, and he at length advanced to the position of captain of an East Indiaman (a specific type of ship operating under charter to the East India Company from the 16th century the 19th century C.E.).

He followed the uninterrupted life of a sailor till about 1838, in the meanwhile, among other voyages, making several trips to Calcutta. Leaving the sea, he entered into business in the wholesale grocery line in Bangor, Maine, where he stayed two or three years, and then came to reside in Hopkinton.

While living here, he became imbued with the “California fever,” which broke out in 1849 with the discovery of gold. In November, 1851, he took out a company by the way of Cape Horn, in the ship Leonora, which he commanded. Once in San Francisco, the ship was sold.

An interesting fact in this connection is, that on this trip the Leonora took out to California the first steamboat used on that coast. The craft, however, proved too small for use in the waters between San Francisco and Sacramento, where it was intended to ply.

While in California, Captain Greene mostly superintended certain hydraulic mining works. During this absence from home, however, he made a trip to Australia, returning with a cargo of coal and grain.
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Date Entered: March 2008
Source: Life and Times in Hopkinton, Charles C. Lord, Republican Press Association, 1890 submitted by Marilyn (Green) Day


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