GREEN, John C.

GREEN, GAYLORD, BENNETT, WISE

Posted By: Gordon Felland (email)
Date: 8/6/2006 at 21:17:14

John C. Green settled in Mitchell county in November, 1863, and located land in Lincoln township, on section 1, where he still owns a well improved farm of 147 acres, with an additional five acres in timber. He is now managing a rented farm in Burr Oak township. Mr. Green was born in Williamson, Ontario Co., N. Y., April 6, 1823, and is a son of John and Elizabeth Green. When ten years of age his parents went to Jo Daviess Co., Ill. He was there brought up and married to Sarah, daughter of Stephen and Rachel Gaylord. Mrs. Green was born in Gallatin Co., Ill. They have eleven children—Leonard, (married Phebe Bennett), Elizabeth, ( Mrs. John Wise ), David, (married Alma Bennett), Alice, Clara, (Mrs. J. Bennett), Alvira, Andrew, William, Franklin and Charlie (twins) and Clarence. Mr. Green resided in Illinois until 1863.

Source: History of Mitchell and Worth Counties, Iowa, 1883, page 285.