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Harold Leavenworth Green (May 31, 1892 – April 13, 1951) was the chairman and founder of the H.L. Green Company
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store chain. He founded the chain as a product of mergers in 1932, and at the time of his death it had more than 200 stores. He was born in Ansonia, Connecticut. He graduated from
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as a mechanical engineer in 1912. He was 59 at the time of his death in Miami Beach, Florida.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Green, Harold L. 1892 births 1951 deaths American mechanical engineers American businesspeople in retailing Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science alumni 20th-century American engineers People from Ansonia, Connecticut