The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress . to those Pittsfield, and one who has neverknown any other home. Wit]any other aid than his own well di-rected hand and brain, Mr. Greeneis today a half owner in, and presi-dent and manager of, the PittsfieldShoe Company, one of the most suc-cessful plants of its kind in all XewEngland, It gives employment totwo hundred people, and is operatedto its utmost capacity the full fifty-two weeks of the year. In these veryfactories now owned and operatedby the Pittsfield Shoe Company, was but a few years a no aworkm
The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress . to those Pittsfield, and one who has neverknown any other home. Wit]any other aid than his own well di-rected hand and brain, Mr. Greeneis today a half owner in, and presi-dent and manager of, the PittsfieldShoe Company, one of the most suc-cessful plants of its kind in all XewEngland, It gives employment totwo hundred people, and is operatedto its utmost capacity the full fifty-two weeks of the year. In these veryfactories now owned and operatedby the Pittsfield Shoe Company, was but a few years a no aworkman at the lowest rung of theladder. He is today only forty-sevenyears old and does not look eventhat, yet all his days he has been aprodigious worker, but day by dayhis work has been well managed andwell mannered. In addition to shoemanufacturing interests he is. withhis brother, D. S. Greene, and J. engaged in the lumber businessas the Pittsfield Lumber firm buys wood lots in XewHampshire and elsewhere, and clears I ? I- m *s i* «Nn I Z I S S 5 i pi. Pittsfield Shoe Company of any other locality, is aptly dem- them off, selling the undressed lum- onstrated by the achievements of ber. Franklin Pierce Greene, a son of It was on March 27, I860, that Mr. PittsjJebL Queen of the Suncooh Valley !95 < was born, the son of DavidL. and Hannah C. (Tilton) a few years attendance uponthe public schools and PittsfieldAcademy, he began work as a shoecutter for C. B. Lancaster & Co., inthe factories he now manages. Forfourteen years he worked at thebench, all the while advancing ingrades of workmanship. In 1895 heformed a partnership with E. , as Hill & Greene, and beganthe manufacture of shoes in a build-ing near the present railroad 1896 the firm leased what is nowthe No. 2 factory of the PittsfieldShoe Company and admitted J. to partnership. The venturewas an immediate success, so muchso that more room was required, andit
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