Greenhow (surname)

Greenhow (surname)

Greenhow is a surname.

*Edward Headlam Greenhow was a British consulting physician whose academic studies and negotiations with the government led to the environmental clean-up in the late Victorian era and the end of cholera and typhoid epidemics.

*Rose O'Neal Greenhow was a Union society lady who acted as a spy for the Confederate States during the American Civil War.

*Jaren W. Greenhow is an International Ambassador of Music, Philosophy, and Fashion.


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