sent his stock price lower. Still, it was not until his own overspending in related businesses, combined with the aggressive business tactics of rival business men and competitors, forced Greene to succumb. In 1906, with dwindling finances and nowhere else to turn, he sold Greene Consolidated to Thomas F. Cole, John D. Ryan, and Amalgamated Copper. Death After selling Greene Consolidated, Greene was forced out of daily operations of the mine. He disappeared from society for the most part and lived a quiet life in Cananea until his death on August 5, 1911, as a result of pneumonia, which was induced by an accident which overtook him several days before. At his funeral, and after the religious service in his home, the coffin was loaded onto his private train and was brought to Los Angeles, California. In 1918, Charlie Wiswall, Greene's general business manager and regarded as a man of "great heart," married the widowed Mary. The marriage was performed with a prenuptial agreement that Wiswall not have access to the assets of the estate and that he would be considered a permanent employee of Greene Emporium. Wiswall died in 1953 and Mary in 1955; Greene's son, William, was determined to bring his father's remains to Cananea, where he was buried in the heart of the city's cemetery in 1956. Photo gallery See also Cananea mine Cananea strike References Further reading Charles Leland Sonnichsen, Colonel Greene and the Copper Skyrocket : The Spectacular Rise and Fall of William Cornell Greene Copper King, Cattle Baron and Promoter, Arcadia Publishing, 1974, . Miller, Joseph, editor, The Arizona Rangers, Hastings House, 1975, hardcover, 268 pages, O'Neal, Bill, The Arizona Rangers, Eakin Press, 1987, Zimmerman, David A., "Panic! Markets, Crises, and Crowds in American Fiction", Chapel Hill, 2006, , External links Prominent Americans The O RO Ranch History Greene Cattle Company Collection Colonel William C. Greene and the Cananea Copper Bubble History of Cananea in Mexico (Spanish language) National Mining Hall of Fame: Colonel William C. Greene, accessed 20 May 2009, Businesspeople from Wisconsin American prospectors American businesspeople in metals 1852 births 1911 deaths Arizona pioneers American mining businesspeople People from Howard, Wisconsin 19th-century American businesspeople