Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1907 — Jesse Greenfied Dead. [ARTICLE]

Jesse Greenfied Dead.

John greenfield, of near Surrey, has just learned of the death, on Dec. 11th, of his brother Jesse Greenfield, of Hutchinson, Kans. Mr. Greenfield was well known here where he lived for many years prior to twenty years age, and formerly owned the present Chas. F. Stackhouse farm, just north of Rensselaer. Of his death the Hutchinson ladependent says: I_. Mr. Greenfield was a man of more than ordinary force and was well known to the people j>f the city. He was the owner "of the Greenfield & Company bottling works, at the corner es Avenue B and Poplar street. During the pa*t few years his failing strength left the active management of the business in the hands of his son O. P. Gieenfield. Jesse Greenfield came of historic stock. His great grandfather was Aaron Greenfield, who came from England to Pennsylvania with William Penu< who founded - "that colony. On Oct. 10, 1827, Jesse Greenfield was born, in Chester county. Pa. He lived with his father’s family there and in Muskingum county, till 1851, when the family moved to Jasper county, Indiana. He had married Sarah J. Warne, in 1848. in 1873 he moved to Clarksville, Tennessee, but the failing health of his father; called him back to Indiana in 1876. Two years later he went to Arkansas, thence to Missouri. In 1880 he came to Kansas, settling at Columbus. Mr. Greenfield stayed there but one year, coming to Hutchin soulinßßir| He resided here all of the twenty six years since that time. ” z

When be came to Hutchinsun Mr Greenfield bought the bottling business ot J. R Carr, which was conducted in a building located where the retailstore of the Colladay hardware company now stands, at 113 North Main street. Next year he built a frame building ou the rear end of the lots now used by Yoivhg & Sons, at Fourth and Main. When the boom was at its height the expansion of the business dis trict crowded factories back and Mr. Greenfield built at the present location in 1888. In 1898 his factory was destroyed by fire, but was immediately rebuilt and enlarged, fie has employed about ten people at the factory. In 1884 Mrs. Greenfield died, and later Mr. Greenfield was married to Eliza: eth Pierce, whom he brought to Kansas from Ohio. Sne survives him. Of the seven children born to the first marriage two are living. They are Oliver P. Greenfield, ui this city, and Mrs. Mary Alter, who made her home with her father. Mr. Greenfield had brothers in C &- cinnati, and Surrey, Ind., and a sister in Chicago. Mr. Greenfield has always been known as an energetic and enterprising citizen. He was one ot the old settlers here—for twenty-six years was a long time. He was in terested in the things which were for advancement of the city. He had lived to see it grow from a frontier town to a modern metropolitan city. In politics he was a Republican. Mr. Greenfield cast his first vote for Zachary Taylor for president, and has been astiong partisan ever since.