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GREENVILLE, a city of Montcalm county, Michigan, U.S.A., 35 m. N.E. of Grand Rapids; on the Grand Trunk and the Pere Marquette railways. The population was 4,304 in 192o (90% native white) and was 4,73o in 193o by the Federal census. It is an important potato market, and has refrigerator factories and other manufacturing industries. The city was founded about 1844 by John Green and incorporated in 187o.