Jay Livingston Greene
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Eagle Valley Enterprise page 1 - August 11, 1922
DR. J. L. GREENE PASSES ON. Revered Citizen of Eagle County Passed to His Reward at Salida Sunday.
The news at the death of Dr. J. L. GREENE at the Red Cross
hospital at Salida last Sunday spread a mantle of grief over the entire community
and country. Dr. GREENE, accompanied by Mrs. GREENE, went to the hospital for a minor
operation several weeks ago, having the operation performed after a two weeks rest.
The operation itself was very successful, but his old trouble, bronchitis, induced
pneumonia, after which he failed very rapidly, and Dr. GREENE, who was loved
and revered by every family in Eagle and the vicinity, passed to his great reward at
the advanced age of 83 years 8 months.
No death has ever caused as universal grief in Eagle as has that of Dr. GREENE and
Mrs. GREENE has the deepest sympathy of all of us.
Interment was made in the Salida cemetery Tuesday afternoon, the Masonic lodge
conducting the services. Mrs. GREENE has returned to Eagle and will continue to
make her home here. We will publish an obituary in our next issue.
Eagle Valley Enterprise page 1 - August 18, 1922
Jay Livingstone GREENE was born at Montpelier, Vermont, December 25, 1838, and died at Salida, Colorado, August 6, 1922, at the age of 83 years, 8 months and 12 days.
The years of Doctor GREENE's life were filled with usefulness and good doing. Being of sturdy New England stock, by both his father and mother, tracing his ancestry back thru the pioneers of that rugged country direct to old England, he was a man of direct and steady purpose, who, fighting adversities from his early manhood, left behind a strong impression on his fellows; a memory that will live long among those with whom he came in contact and especially those who were so fortunate as to be called friend by him.
Early in life he chose the medical profession as his life's calling, but after one year spent in the pursuits of the studies of that profession, was compelled to give it up for the time being. Owing to the failing health of his father, who was a minister of the Christian church, he became the sole support of the family and took up the profession of teaching, which he followed for a number of years.
He taught in various capacities from the rural schools of Vermont to the principalship of the Syracuse, New York, schools. He then decided to abandon school teaching and to work for himself as he put it. In 1879, he came to Colorado, locating for a short time at Leadville. Attracted by the mining excitement at Taylor Hill, where the first ore discovery was made in what is now Eagle county, he was among the first prospectors in that district. He never lost sight of his ambition to become a physician and in 1883 again resumed his studies of the profession, and in 1886, was graduated from the Denver Medical College. A year of practice in Denver followed, when he returned to Eagle county and located in Red Cliff, then the mining metropolis of the Western Slope and was immediately appointed surgeon to the Denver & Rio Grande railroad, which position he held until his death. Later he moved to Minturn and in 1899 came to Eagle, which remained his home until the time of his death.
He was very active in the practice of his profession until about six years ago, when he began to gradually withdraw from general practice and devote himself entirely to his large office practice. During the epidemic of influenza in 1918, he overworked himself and his health failed him, and he never resumed active practice again, tho he could not always resist the demands of hundreds of friends and former patients who constantly came to him for advice and treatment for their health, for to many there was no doctor equal to Dr. Greene. During the past number of years he spent several winters in California seeking to regain his failing health, to no avail, and he died in the Red Cross hospital following a serious operation.
He is survived by his widow; one daughter, Mrs. Charles P. Richardson, of Minneapolis, Minn.; one son, Arthur Greene, of Battle Creek, Mich.; and a foster son, Joseph C. Whitman, of Berkeley, Calif., and hundreds of true friends.
