Green, H. S.

GREEN

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 9/3/2008 at 13:50:03

H. S. Green

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.135, Knox Twp.)
H. S. Green, farmer, P. O. Avoca, born near Brockport, Monroe Co., N. Y., in 1829; raised in Ashtabula County, Ohio; lived there until 1868, when he went to Illinois; stopped with friends near Ottawa, where he was teaching for two years. He is the son of Caleb Green, who died in 1840; his mother, at the age of eighty-eight, died in September, 1881; he is one of twelve children, one brother and one sister dead. He was educated in Ashtabula County, Ohio, going to school with B. F. Wade, nephew of B. F. Wade, of the Nineteenth District, Ohio. He has been farming most of his life, and, while in Ohio, was in the dairy business; married, in Ashtabula County, Ohio, in 1853, Miss Sarah J. Wood, born in New York and raised in Ohio. They are the parents of four children - one daughter dead and three sons living. Subject came to this township in the spring of 1870, buying raw prairie, paying $8 and $10 per acre for same. The land was owned by Mr. Hitchcock, of Boston, and sold by N. P. Dodge of Council Bluffs. The farm is well improved now, consisting of 290 acres, mostly under cultivation, with large buildings, groves, orchard, etc., thereon. he came here just as the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad commenced carrying freight, and was in Shelby when the first freight was delivered there, it being a keg of whisky. Mr. Green is a Democrat.