Green, P. S.

GREEN, WILCOX

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Date: 2/13/2013 at 09:58:56

The History of Poweshiek County, Iowa
Des Moines: Union Hist. Co., 1880.

GREEN, P.S.—Madison Twp—pg 954. Farmer, section 17, P.O. Brooklyn. Was born March 18, 1821, in Oneida county, New York, where, after finishing his education, he engaged in teaching school and farming in various parts of the State till 1862, when he enlisted in the One Hundred and forty-seventh New York infantry, in which he served his country till the close of the war, participating in the battles of Chancellorsville, Gettysburg three days, and many minor engagements. After receiving his discharge he returned to New York, where he remained a few months, then moved to Bureau county, Illinois, where he engaged in farming till 1868, when he came to this county and continued to follow farming in different neighborhoods till the spring of 1880, when he settled upon his present farm of eighty acres, on which he has a new residence, situated upon an elevation commanding a fine view of the county for miles around. Mr. Green was married, March 25, 1852, in Oswego county, New York, to Miss Lovisa R. Wilcox, of that county. Seven children have been born to them: John Milton (died February 23, 1870, in his seventeenth year), George Franklin (aged twenty-six; married), Sarah E. (aged twenty-three years), Robert A.E. (aged twenty-one years), Alta L. (aged nineteen years), Nellie M. (aged fourteen years) and Abby K. (aged ten years).