He used to talk about the visit of George W.G. Josephine’s brother Philip Mixter had just finished work, in 1851, on Henry Burden’s water wheel – the largest in the world. Rilson became a wheelwright in Conway, Mass., but returned to the Troy area and married Josephine Mixter in 1852. Bill Senior’s father, Rilson Green, was born in 1829 – and so just three generations of Greens spanned an America from whale oil lamps to personal computers. Bill’s older half-brothers were carpenters: Arthur lived in West Sand Lake Harry William lived for a time in Michigan and returned to the area in 1927 Harold worked for the Town of East Greenbush. Bill’s father, William Mixter Green, Sr., was born in 1867 and so was in middle age when he married for a second time (his first wife had died in the flu epidemic of 1913) and had a fourth son. W illiam Mixter Green, Jr., was born in a farm house on Burden Lake in 1916 – which makes him 90 years old, and one of the few residents of the Town of Sand Lake to have fully experienced the change from rural to suburban life. Historical Highlights The Ice Harvester of Burden Lake
SLHS: William Mixter Green, Jr., The Ice Harvester of Burden Lake
