Halbert S. Greenleaf

Halbert Stevens Greenleaf (April 12, 1827 – August 25, 1906) was an American Civil War Colonel and Congressman from Massachusetts.

After the war, he was given the command of the government steamer named Col. Benedict, on the lower Mississippi, and he was employed in a salt works near New Orleans, Louisiana, for several years.

[5] He was also a member of the board of trustees of the Rochester Savings Bank, the Rochester park commission, St. Lawrence University at Canton, N. Y., and of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Home at Bath, N. Y Greenleaf was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1883 – March 3, 1885).

He and his wife Jean Brooks Greenleaf, a noted suffragist, were interred in Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, New York.

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