History of Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, 1887
Green Family - HENRY C. GREEN Biography
Henry C. Green of the Ralston Brick Company, born at Williamsport, Pennsylvania, April 29, 1844, comes of the following ancestry
Some time in the seventeenth century there emigrated from Providence, Rhode Island, to Westchester, New York, one Green (1). From him descended John Green (II), born 1709 and died 1792. He married and had six sons. Isaiah Green (III), son of John (II), born 1750, died in 1832. He married and had three daughters and four sons. (IV) John Green, son of Isaiah (III), born 1785, died 1865. He was married in 1819 at New Bedford, Massachusetts, to Eliza Shearman, daughter of David and Anna Shearman, who bore him ten children, as follows
1, Ann; 2, Elizabeth, died in infancy; 3, David, who became a prominent surveyor and later in life in the employ of the United States treasury department ; he died in 1878; 4, Mary, died 1890; 5, John R., who died in childhood; 6, Charles, a resident of Roaring Branch, Pennsylvania; 7, John B., a resident of the same place; 8, Montgomery; 9, Hannah, both deceased; 10, Henry C. John Green and wife were both members of the Society of Friends. Mrs. Green died 1862.
(IV) John Green, son of Isaiah Green (III), born in Dutchess county, New York, received a good common school education, and at an early age was placed in a wholesale cloth house in New York City, where he learned the business. Later he established himself in New York City in the same line of business, and with his brother, Jacob, carried on the business for many years, when he sold out and opened a store in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and at Poughkeepsie, New York. In 1836 he closed these stores out and retired to a farm two miles south of Poughkeepsie, New York, where he resided until 1841, when he moved to Williamsport, Pennsylvania. He removed to Roaring Branch, Pennsylvania, in 1861, where he owned a sawmill and timberlands, where he died 1865.
Henry C. Green, our subject, spent his boyhood days in Williamsport, where he attended the public schools and Dickinson Seminary. At the age of fifteen he went to New Bedford, Massachusetts, and clerked in a book store about four years, when he came to Roaring Branch, Pennsylvania, and worked on a farm and in a sawmill until 1864, when he enlisted in the 188th New York Volunteer Regiment, as a musician. He also served as a clerk at General Grant' headquarters, U. S. A. He rode with President Lincoln, Commodore Farragut, Commodore Porter and General Weitzel in a carriage, on Lincoln's memorable trip through Richmond, Virginia. He is the last survivor of that party. Mr. Green served until the end of that great conflict, when he returned home and went into the lumber business at Emporium, Pennsylvania, for three years. He next went to Roaring Branch and clerked in his brother's, C. S. Green's, general store, but after a short time he went to Grover, Pennsylvania, and engaged in the general store business on his own account.
He was appointed postmaster and station agent for the Northern Central Railway Company, the first agent of that place. He served there three years and moved to Bodines, Lycoming county, Pennsylvania, where he engaged in a general merchandise trade, continuing for twelve years, when he sold to C. P. Culver, of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, and moved to Wellsboro, Pennsylvania, and engaged in the lumber business for four years, and then came to Ralston, Lycoming county, where he became superintendent for the Red Run Coal Company, in the lumber department. Also superintendent of the Ralston Brick Company, which position he still holds.
Believing in the general principles of the Republican party, he casts this vote and works for its best interests. He is a member of Lodge No. 382, A. F. & A. M., of Emporium, Pennsylvania, and attends the Methodist Episcopal church. He is an exceptionally well read and generally posted man, and held in high esteem by all within his community. In 187 Mr. Green married Mary E. Merrell, who is the daughter of Elliot and Catherine Merrell, whose maiden name was Hebe. By this union three children were born : Charles E., who died when ten years old; John, died in infancy; Catherine, now Mrs. Dr. John Steele, of Gailton, Pennsylvania.
Source: Genealogical and Personal History of Lycoming County, John W. Jordan, Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1906.
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