. Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania biography : illustrated . m-bia and Washington. He resided withhis parents in Columbia, Pennsylvania,and during the summer months studiedin private schools. In 1846 he left home,going to Hellam township, York county,where he taught a district school the fol-lowing winter. After giving seriousthought to the question of a career, he half century destined to be the scene ofhis business activity. He organized thefirm of Ringwalt & Brown, printers, atNo. 34 South Third street, continuing anactive member of that firm until i860,when he retired. In 1861 he becamemanager
. Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania biography : illustrated . m-bia and Washington. He resided withhis parents in Columbia, Pennsylvania,and during the summer months studiedin private schools. In 1846 he left home,going to Hellam township, York county,where he taught a district school the fol-lowing winter. After giving seriousthought to the question of a career, he half century destined to be the scene ofhis business activity. He organized thefirm of Ringwalt & Brown, printers, atNo. 34 South Third street, continuing anactive member of that firm until i860,when he retired. In 1861 he becamemanager of the printing establishment ofHenry C. Leisenring, at No. 32 SouthThird street, where he was in continu-ous service until 1871. His managementof this office was marked by a greatlyincreased volume of business, necessitat-ing the firms removal to more commod-ious quarters. Among the improvementshe there introduced were presses forprinting consecutively numbered localand coupon railroad and other tickets,the first ever used in Philadelphia. In 226. <ZCgYy s/r^^f Y&U^X? ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIOGRAPHY 1871 Mr. Greene resigned to become amember of the printing firm of Helfen-stein, Lewis & Greene. After ten yearsof successful business he purchased hispartners interests and in April, 1881, be-came sole proprietor. In 1900, the busi-ness, having so expanded, was incorpor-ated as the Stephen Greene Company,with Stephen Greene as president, a po-sition he held until his death. In 1902a large new plant was erected at Six-teenth and Arch streets, where the busi-ness is still continued, with Dr. WilliamII. Greene, president. Thus for a halfcentury Mr. Greene was connected withthe printing business in Philadelphia, andfor sixty-one years with the same busi-ness, from printers boy to was an untiring, energetic man ofbusiness, and his one constant ambitionwas to elevate the standard of all classesof printing and foster a correct taste. Tothis end he eagerly sought and installedt
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