From:  Ron Taylor, President – Allegany County Historical Society

            Shortly after I started my first personal website on History of Allegany County 22 years ago I had an offer of material to add about the Andover area from William A. “Bubba” Greene of Andover.  I accepted and before many days had passed I had a huge amount of material to add to my website which developed into www.alleganyhistory.org .  During the next 20+ years a day hardly went by that an email did not supply more!

            Bubba was born, raised, lived many years in Andover, and worked most of his adult life for the Town of Andover.  He found time during his “off” hours to research Veterans and genealogy of the Andover area and expanded later to the entire county on occasion to help us “grow our website”.

            Not only did he work on many history projects in the background, but he served the community as Past Fire Chief as well as Past President of the Andover Historical Society among others.  On his own, he followed many Town Historians that he had worked with and kept a regularly updated listing of the 18 cemeteries of the Town of Andover for over 3 decades. 

            When Bubba’s health was declining a couple of years ago he asked me to accept at Allegany County Historical Society Museum the several historical collections he had created into the archives of our museum.  We have available…