GREEN, Norvil N. - 1890 Bio (1836-1918)

GREEN, JOHNSON, FRAZEY, HENDRICKS, STEEL, CAVINESS

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 8/8/2007 at 19:48:54

Portrait and Biographical Album of Jefferson and Van Buren Counties, Iowa, Printed 1890 by Lake City Publishing Co., Chicago
Pages 530 and 533

Norvil N. GREEN.

Among the living representatives of one of the substantial pioneer families of Jefferson County, is the gentleman whose names appears at the head of this sketch and we feel that we afford our readers pleasure in presenting to them this record of his life. His father, Wilson GREEN, a native of Huntingdon County, Pa., was born August 25, 1809, and was a son of Nathaniel and Ruth (JOHNSON) GREEN, the former of English descent and the latter of Scotch (sic) lineage. Nathaniel GREEN lived to the age of eighty-eight years and his wife reached the advanced age of ninety-eight years.

Wilson GREEN, father of our subject, is one of nine children, six sons and three daughters. In early life he learned the carpenter's trade which served him admirably on coming to Iowa, for in that early day workmen were scarce and his services were highly prized. On May 14, 1835, he wedded Emily J. FRAZEY, a native of Bedford County, Pa., born March 10, 1818. Soon after their marriage they removed to Portage County, Ohio, and in 1845, emigrated to Jefferson County, Iowa, locating on section 31, Lockridge Township. Mr. GREEN was a successful farmer, owning a good farm, the value of which he greatly enhanced by adding many improvements thereto. Both he and his wife were active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, as were also his parents before him. Politically, he was a Democrat. His death occurred on the 26th of September, 1854, and later his widow married James H. HENDRICKS, with whom she still lives on the old homestead. By her first marriage she became the mother of seven children. all of whom are yet living save Ira E., who died when about twelve years old. Those who still survive are Norvil N., the eldest of the family; Morrison B., a farmer, of Washington County, Iowa; Joseph A., who is engaged in the hotel business in Curtis, Nebraska; Almira E. wife of Horace STEEL, a resident of Washington County, Iowa; Frances M., wife of Simeon T. CAVINESS, whose home is in Jefferson County, and James W. who devotes his time attention to farming in Kansas.

We now take up the personal history of our subject. Ohio is the State of his nativity and October 8, 1836, the date of his birth. The first nine years of his life were spent in Portage County, whence, in 1845, he accompanied his parents on their westward journey to the Territory of Iowa. Since that time he has never left the old homestead on which the family located, but now has charge of and owns the greater part of it, consisting of two hundred and eighty acres of good land, most of which he has placed under a high state of cultivation and which therefore yields a ready and suitable return for the care and labor he bestows upon it. Acquainted with the occupation of farming in all its details and possessing unbounded thrift and industry he cannot but be successful. He is largely interested in sheep raising.

Religiously, Mr. GREEN has embraced the faith of his parents and is an active member and faithful worker in the church, but in politics he has not followed the paternal example, being a stanch Republican and a warm advocate of prohibition. He devotes himself entirely to the interests of his farm and as the result ranks among the successful agriculturalists of his township.

*Transcribed for genealogy purposes; I have no relation to the person(s) mentioned.