He died in his home in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on June 23, 1880, and is buried at Oak Hill Cemetery. Placenames Greene Square Park, Cedar Rapids, Iowa Greene's Opera House, Cedar Rapids, Iowa Greene Brothers’ Store, town's first major department store, Cedar Rapids, Iowa Greene Residence Hall at Coe College, Coe's first Board President, Cedar Rapids, Iowa Greene mansion, now part of Mount Mercy College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa Greene Avenue NE, between I and J Avenue NE Cedar Rapids, Iowa Greene, Iowa Family On May 30, 1838, Greene married Harriet Merritt. Harriet was from Buffalo, New York and was the daughter of Jesse Merritt and Harriet Hilton. They had four children: George W. (b. April 4, 1839), Susan H. (b. March 3, 1841), Mary Ely (b. June 7, 1843), and Edward Merritt (b. March 29, 1845). George W. and Mary Ely died as infants. Harriet died in Dubuque on April 25, 1850; Greene remarried on January 25, 1855 to Frances R. Graves, who was from Cooperstown, New York. Her parents were Clavin Graves and Fanny Carlisle. They had eight children: Calvin G. (b. February 18, 1856), Fanny C. (b. January 19, 1858), George (b. December 28, 1859), William J. (b. November 28, 1861), Elizabeth (b. August 13, 1864), Robert C. (b. December 22, 1867), Francis (b. May 14, 1870), and Woodward K. (b. August 2, 1873). Notes References Brewer, Luther A. and Barthinius L. Wick (1911). History of Linn County Iowa Volume I Chicago: The Pioneer Publishing Company Gue, Benjamin F. (1903). History of Iowa from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century Volume III New York City: The Century History Company Gue, Benjamin F. (1903). History of Iowa from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century Volume IV New York City: The Century History Company 1817 births 1880 deaths People from Alton, Staffordshire Iowa Democrats Iowa Republicans Iowa lawyers Members of the Iowa Territorial Legislature 19th-century American politicians Justices of the Iowa Supreme Court Politicians from Buffalo, New York Politicians from Cedar Rapids, Iowa British emigrants to the United States People from Marion, Iowa 19th-century American judges 19th-century American lawyers American city founders