GREEN, Harry H. 1839-1927

GREEN, JOHNSON, JENNINGS

Posted By: S. Bell
Date: 1/24/2013 at 23:48:22

[Waterloo Evening Courier, Monday, April 18, 1927, Waterloo, Iowa]

Rev. H. H. Green,
Is Dead; Burial to
Be at Cedar Falls

Rev. H. H. Green, 88, retired Methodist Episcopal minister and a Civil war veteran, who,was presiding elder of the Dubuque and Decorah districts from 1884 to 1904, well-known to tho, older members of the Methodist faith in this vicinity, died today at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Guy Johnson, Long Beach, California.

Rev, E. J. Lockwood, former district superintendent, and a life-long friend, received a dispatch containing the death message. The body will be brought to Cedar Falls and funeral services will be In the Methodist church there, with Rev. Lockwood officiating. Burial will be in Decorah beside his wife, with the Masonic order conducting the rites at the grave.

Rev. Mr. Green served during the Civil war in tho Second and Twenty-fourth Iowa regiments. He was ordained a minister in 1867 and served in pastorates of Iowa until he retired in 1904. While pastor of Janesville, and Plainfield churches he was elected representative from Bremer County to the Iowa legislature in 1882 as a Republican. His family was reared in Cedar Falls and the nearby towns of which he was pastor.

Besides the daughter whith whom he made his home, he is survived by another daughter, Mrs. E. L. Jennings, Cedar Falls and three sons: H. J. Green, president of the Homesteader's Life Insurance Company, Des Moines, S. E. Green, Long Beach, and Marion Green, Chicago, nationally known baritone singer.

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A Waterloo Evening Courier article dated October 9, 1917. The article, "Gives War Relics to State of Iowa," stated that Reverend Dr. H. H. Green of Decorah deposited a collection of Civil War relics brought from the home of Captain Green. Among the items donated was a silk flag of company I, Second Iowa Infantry. The flag was constructed by the ladies of Lyons and given to Captain Green, commander of the 2nd Iowa Infantry, Co. I.

[Iowa History.org]

US 1920 Census
Name: Harry H Green
Spouse: Mary M Green
Birth: abt 1838 - location
Arrival: year
Residence: 1920 - city, Black Hawk, Iowa