Levi Heywood Greenwood
(December 22, 1872
– April 7, 1930) was a businessman and
Republican politician from
in the late 19th and early 20th century. He was the father of former
Fitchburg Mayor Robert E. Greenwood.
Early years
Greenwood was born in
Gardner, Massachusetts
Gardner, officially the City of Gardner, is a city in Worcester County in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, United States. The population was 21,287 in the 2020 census. Gardner is home of such sites as the Blue Moon Diner, Dunn State Park, Ga ...
,
to Alvni M. and Helen R. Greenwood, on December 22, 1872.
Marriage
Greenwood married Mary Alberta Cann of
Brooklyn
Brooklyn () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, in the U.S. state of New York. Kings County is the most populous county in the State of New York, and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, be ...
, New York on February 11, 1895.
They had four children, Eleanor Greenwood (Hornblower),
Margaret Greenwood, Richard Neal Greenwood
and Robert E. Greenwood.
Political career
Greenwood was President of the
Massachusetts State Senate in 1912 and 1913.
1913 election
In 1913 election, Greenwood had initially decided not to run for re-election the Senate but to run for
lieutenant governor
A lieutenant governor, lieutenant-governor, or vice governor is a high officer of state, whose precise role and rank vary by jurisdiction. Often a lieutenant governor is the deputy, or lieutenant, to or ranked under a governor — a "second-in-comm ...
. He then changed his mind. His opposition to giving women the right to vote caused him to be a focus of opposition by the
suffragist movement, and suffragists threw their support to Edward Sibley,
Greenwood's opponent, which helped Sibley win.
Businesses
Publisher
Greenwood was the Publisher and President of ''
The Gardner News'' of Gardner, Massachusetts.
Furniture manufacturer
In 1912, Greenwood was one of the directors
of Heywood Brothers and Wakefield Co, manufacturers of
Rattan
Rattan, also spelled ratan, is the name for roughly 600 species of Old World climbing palms belonging to subfamily Calamoideae. The greatest diversity of rattan palm species and genera are in the closed-canopy old-growth tropical forests of ...
& Reed Furniture in Gardner. By 1921 Greenwood was one of the owners
By 1926 he was the President of th
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Directorships
Greenwood was also a corporate director of several banks (
BankBoston, The First National Bank of Boston, The First National Bank of Gardner) and street railways (The Paducah Light and Traction Company, The Galveston-Houston Electric Company, and the Columbus Electric Company).
See also
*
131st Massachusetts General Court (1910)
The 131st Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1910 during the Governor of Massachusetts, governorship of Eben Sumner Draper. Allen T. Treadway served as Presid ...
*
134th Massachusetts General Court (1913)
The 134th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1913 during the governorship of Eugene Foss. Levi H. Greenwood served as president of the Senate and Grafton D. ...
References
Bibliography
* Coolidge, Henry D.: ''A Manual for the Use of the General Court for 1921'' (1921), p. 259.
*''Who's Who in State Politics, 1912, Boston, MA: Practical Politics, (1912), pp. 52–53.
Footnotes
{{DEFAULTSORT:Greenwood, Levi H.
1872 births
1930 deaths
American bankers
American corporate directors
American energy industry executives
American newspaper publishers (people)
American railway entrepreneurs
20th-century American railroad executives
Businesspeople from Massachusetts
Harvard College alumni
Republican Party Massachusetts state senators
Republican Party members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
People from Gardner, Massachusetts
St. Paul's School (New Hampshire) alumni