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Joseph Greenwood

[1822-1902]

Joseph Greenwood was born in Warley.

He was

Grocer and tailor [1851]
Manager in a woollen mill [1861]
Managing Director of James Greenwood & Son Limited [1895]
Chairman of Shepherd & Blackburn
A prominent figure in Sowerby Bridge and active in local affairs
A Liberal
A nonconformist at the Wesleyan church
A member of the Sowerby Bridge Local Board [1860]
Chairman of the Sowerby Bridge Local Board [1866-1867, 1873-1874, 1881-1882, 1888-1889, 1892-1893]
a Town Councillor
Chairman of the Sowerby Bridge Gas & Water Works, and was involved in the procurement of land for the Sowerby Bridge Sewage Works
President of the Sowerby Bridge Choral Society
Active in the construction of the Sowerby Bridge Town Hall
A member and the first Alderman of the West Riding County Council
Master of the Ryburn [No 1283] Masonic Lodge. At his death, he was the oldest member and the oldest past master
Chairman of the Halifax Board of Guardians

In 1846, he married Martha Emmett [1823-19??] of Thornton-in-Craven, in Bradford.

Children:

Benjamin Emmett [b 1847]
Elizabeth Ann [b 1850] who married Benjamin Wood

The family lived at

Hill Top, Warley [1851]
Greenups Terrace, Sowerby Bridge [1861]
2 Beech Villas, Sowerby Bridge [1871]
2 Villa Street, Sowerby Bridge [1881, 1901]

He was buried at Bolton Brow Wesleyan Chapel. His funeral was one of the largest that Sowerby Bridge had seen, with 500 people walking in front of the hearse

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