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GEORGE M. GREEN
Vol. 3, p. 1340

Retained as assistant attorney of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Railroad Company for the State of Oklahoma, Mr. Green is numbered
among the sterling citizens whose ability and services have
contributed to the upholding of the high standard of the bar of
Oklahoma. He maintains his residence and professional headquarters in
Oklahoma City, with offices at 810 Colcord Building.

Mr. Green may claim as his birthright the progressive and vital
spirit of the West, for he was born at Manhattan, the judicial center
and metropolis of Riley County, Kansas, the date of his nativity
having been July 13, 1876, and his father was one of the pioneer
representatives of the legal profession in that county of the
sunflower State. Mr. Green is a son of George S. and Nannie (McCLUNG)
Green, both of whom are deceased, the mother having been summoned to
eternal rest in 1894 and the father having passed away on the 19th of
May, 1905. George S. GREEN was born and reared in Ohio, where he
effectively prepared himself for the profession in which he was
destined to achieve marked success and precedence. In the '70s he
established his home at Manhattan, Kansas, which was then a mere
village, and he there engaged in the practice of law. He not only
became one of the prominent lawyers of that section of the state but
also an influential figure in public affairs, as is indicated by the
fact that he was called upon to serve as a member of the House of
Representatives of the Kansas Legislature and later as a member of
the State Senate, besides which he retained from 1890 to 1893 the
office of associate justice of the Supreme Court commission of
Kansas. In the latter year he removed with his family to Oklahoma
Territory and established his home at Guthrie, the territorial
capital. There he continued in the practice of law, as one of the
leading representatives of his profession in the territory, and he
was a vigorous worker in the campaign for statehood, though his death
occurred about two years prior to the admission of Oklahoma to the
Union.

George M. Green duly availed himself of the advantages of the pubic
schools of Manhattan, Kansas, and there supplemented this discipline
by a course of study in the Kansas State Agricultural College. In
1896 he went to Horton, Brown County, that state, and entered upon an
apprenticeship to the machinist's trade, in the shops of the Chicago
& Rock Island Railroad. One year later, however, in December, 1897,
he rejoined his father, at Guthrie, Oklahoma, and here turned his
attention to the study of law, under the able preceptorship of his
father. He made rapid progress in the absorption and assimilation of
the science of jurisprudence and was admitted to the bar of the
territory in June, 1900. He forthwith became associated with is
father in practice, and this alliance continued until March, 1904,
when there came noteworthy recognition of his ability, in his
appointment to the position of assistant attorney for Oklahoma of the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Company. While retaining this
incumbency he continued his residence at Guthrie until 1911, when he
removed to Oklahoma City, where he has since served most effectively
as representative of the legal department of this great railroad
system, for which he has handled a large amount of important business.

While a resident of Guthrie, Mr. Green served as a member of the
city council, of which municipal body he had the distinction of being
president in 1902-03, besides which he held for some time the office
of United State commissioner at Guthrie. In the time-honored Masonic
fraternity Mr. green is past master of Guthrie Lodge, No. 35, Ancient
Free & Accepted Masons, with which he is still affiliated, and he has
received also the thirty-second degree of the Ancient Accepted
Scottish Rite, in Oklahoma Consistory, No. 1, of the Valley of
Guthrie. He is also an appreciative member of India Temple of the
Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.

On the 8th day of June, 1900, was solemnized the marriage of Mr.
Green to Miss Ellen LEMART, daughter of Edward Lemart, of Crossville,
Tennessee, and the one child of this union is Mary Louise, who was
born October 9, 1911, the family home in Oklahoma City being at 1911
North Francis Street and being a center of representative social
activity, with Mrs. Green as a gracious and popular chatelaine.

Typed for OKGenWeb by Sherry Van Scoy Hall, October 28, 1998.