Green, John M. Dr. 1811 - 1890
GREEN, HAZLETT
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Date: 2/2/2015 at 09:10:28
Decorah Republican, July 3, 1890, Page 1
DR. JOHN M. GREEN
On Friday afternoon last, the subject of this sketch, JOHN M GREEN, was released from the suffering which it was his lot to bear for many months, and entered into the rest of eternity. He was born of Friends’ parentage, in Quakertown, Bucks Co., Penn., March 1st, 1811. His father was a physician, and he studied medicine with him, very early in life. Almost as soon as he had attained his majority he had graduated at the Jefferson Medical College, at Philadelphia. For some six years he practiced medicine in his native town, and then joined the westward march of civilization. This was just prior to 1840, when Ohio was the Mecca of the emigrant. In Muskingum Co., he found a home and there continued in the medical profession for seventeen or eighteen years. In 1856 the western fever again possessed him, and turned his face towards Iowa. The tide of travel was just then in favor of Northern Iowa, and Decorah was one of the favored points. Hither he came, and for more than thirty-four years, he has shared with his fellow citizens the vicissitudes of fortune experienced by this community. For a number of years after coming hither, he followed his life profession; but as his means accumulated he gradually withdrew from it, and devoted his time to the labor and duties of a capitalist. In this relation he has been an active participant in the affairs of the community, for a full quarter century.
In the spring of 1856, or just prior to removal to Decorah, Dr. Green married, at Zanesville, Ohio, Miss Margaret Hazlett. It proved a congenial, happy relation, unblessed however, by children, and she remains to mourn him—along, and yet not alone, because comforted and supported by relatives who had grown into his life and their lives as closely as though they were his next-of-kin. His only personal relatives are two cousins and their children residing in Pensylvania,{sp} we believe.
It will be seen from the foregoing brief data, that deceased was spared for many years beyond the allotted three score-and-ten; and it is literally true that until less than a year ago deceased enjoyed good health. Disease first attacked him in threatening form last December, and only since the beginning of March was he ill enough to require active medical attention. During the later months his sufferings were frequently intense; but he bore these with a patience and fortitude that was remarkable. His long exemption from the ills that afflict ordinary mortals, was doubtless owing to a robust constitution, supplanted by regularity of habits, and that evenness of temper which was in him a marked characteristic, and perhaps an inherited trait from his quaker ancestry.
Thus his many friends and the community of which he was so long a resident bids good-bye to another old settler; to one who was a pioneer physician as well as a pioneer citizen.
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