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Jerome Davis Greene
Find A Grave Memorial ID # 32539602
Jerome Greene, the son of American missionaries, was born in Japan in 1874. He was the younger brother of Roger Greene (who played a key role in the RF’s work in China). Greene spent the majority of his childhood in Japan but returned to the United States to finish high school.
He went on to attend Harvard University in 1896. After obtaining his undergraduate degree, he enrolled in Harvard Law School but left without completing his degree. Greene then worked in a variety of positions before returning to Harvard in 1901 to serve as Secretary to President Charles William Eliot. He went on to serve as Secretary to the Harvard Corporation from 1905 to 1910.
In 1910 Greene was appointed business manager of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (RIMR). Two years later, he joined John D. Rockefeller, Sr.’s personal staff. In this position Greene became instrumental in securing a charter for the RF from the New York State Legislature in 1913 and he served as the first secretary of the new foundation. He was also one of the organization’s original trustees, serving from 1913 to 1917 before leaving to join an investment banking firm and to serve as an appointed member of the Council of National Defense during World War I. At the war’s end, Greene became Executive Secretary of the Reparations Section of the American Peace Mission.
In 1928 Greene returned to the RF’s Board of Trustees and served until his retirement from the Board in 1939. In addition to the RF’s Board, he also served as a trustee of the RIMR and the General Education Board (GEB). In 1936 he returned to Cambridge, Massachusetts, and to his position as Secretary of the Harvard Corporation, where he remained until his retirement in 1943.
In addition to his instrumental role in the founding of the RF, Greene was also a founding member of a number of other important organizations. In 1916, along with John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and Charles Eliot, he founded the American Social Hygiene Association. He was also a founding member of the Institute for Government Research, which went on to become the Brookings Institution, and the Institute for Pacific Relations. Jerome Greene died on March 29, 1959, at the age of 84.
Source: Rockefeller Archive Center
The Greenes’ son Jerome bore a striking resemblance to his grandmother Mary. Like an echo of the woman gone before, Jerome looks out from the dry-plate glass-negative image reproduced here—young, handsome, stiffly-collared.
Jerome would live a prosperous life. After returning to the United States from Japan in 1881, he spent two years traveling in Europe as a student, became general manager of the Rockefeller Institute from 1910 to 1912; he was a founder of the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations and authored the constitution of the Institute of Pacific Relations in 1926. He then turned his attention to investment banking, joining the Boston firm of Lee, Higginson & Co. in 1917. For a time, he lived in Toynbee Hall, at 28 Commercial Street, London, in the first university-affiliated institution of the Settlement Movement, where the rich and poor lived together in an interdependent community.
Green remained an investment banker until 1932, when his address was 655 Park Avenue, Manhattan, New York City—a home he shared with his wife May Tevis (1871-1945), whom he married in 1900, and three immigrant Scandinavian domestic servants. The couple had no children. He lived until 1951.
Jerome Davis Greene was an America banker and a trustee to several major organizations and trusts including the Brookings Institution and the Rockefeller Foundation.
- Reference: FamilySearch Family Tree - SmartCopy: Dec 30 2016, 4:35:28 UTC
Jerome Davis Greene was president of Lee, Higginson & Company 1917–32; secretary, Harvard University Corporation, 1905–10 and 1934–43; general manager of the Rockefeller Institute 1910–12; assistant and secretary to John D. Rockefeller Jr. as trustee of the Rockefeller Institute; trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation; trustee of the Rockefeller General Education Board 1910–39; executive secretary, American Section, Allied Maritime Transport Council, in 1918; Joint Secretary of the Reparations, Paris Peace Conference, in 1919; chairman, American Council Institute of Pacific Relations, 1929–32; trustee of the Brookings Institution of Washington, 1928–45; and a founding member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Greene was born in Yokohama, Japan to missionary parents Mary Jane Forbes and the Rev. Daniel Crosby Greene. He was also the brother of diplomat Roger Sherman Greene II, the nephew of famed historian Evarts Boutell Greene, and his grandmother was the sister of former US Senator, US Secretary of State, and US Attorney General William Maxwell Evarts. The great-nephew of US Senator George Frisbie Hoar, US Senator and Connecticut Governor Roger Sherman Baldwin, US Attorney General and Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, as well as the nephew of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Washington Terrority, Justice Roger Sherman Greene.
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Jerome Davis Greene's Timeline
| 1874 |
October 12, 1874
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Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
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| 1902 |
June 14, 1902
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Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
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March 29, 1959
Age 84
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Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
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Pine Grove Cemetery, 106 South Street, Westborough, Worcester County, Massachusetts, 01581, United States
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