Harold Leavenworth Green

Harold Leavenworth Green (May 31, 1892 – April 13, 1951) was the chairman and founder of the H.L.

Green Company five and dime store chain.

[1] 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 graduated from Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University as a mechanical engineer in 1912.

He was 59 at the time of his death in Miami Beach, Florida.