William S. Greever

William St. Clair Greever (July 22, 1916, in Lexington, Virginia – January 14, 2007, in Moscow, Idaho) was an American professor of history, specializing in the history of mining and railroads in the nineteenth-century American West. He was a Guggenheim Fellow for the academic year 1958–1959.

Biography After graduating from Los Angeles High School, Greever matriculated at Pomona College and received his B.A. there in 1938. He graduated from Harvard University with M.A. in 1940 and Ph.D. in 1949 in U.S. History. During WW II he was from 1942 to 1946 in the U.S. Army, enlisting as a Private and rising to the rank of Technical Sergeant. He did paperwork in California, Utah, Texas, the Philippines, and Japan. In Ogden, Utah, he was Chief Clerk at the Ogden Prisoner of War Camp for Italian soldiers. Their daughter was born in 1957.