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J. K. GREEN
Vol. 3, p. 1085

For more than fifteen years Mr. Green has lived in and about Dewey,
Oklahoma and formerly a farmer, has now built up a large and
prosperous business as a real estate man with offices in Dewey. Mr.
Green has spent much of his life in the West, and has been identified
with various occupations, but perhaps chiefly as a farmer.

J. K. GREEN was born in Jessamine County, Kentucky, May 11, 1846, a
son of Andrew Jackson and Lucy (PHILLIPS) GREEN. His father was born
in Culpeper County, Virginia, August 27, 1816, came to Richmond,
Kentucky, in childhood, grew up there and was married to Miss
Phillips, who was born in Richmond, Kentucky, August 28, 1816. He was
a farmer, and he and his wife members of the Methodist Church. She
died at the age of sixty, and he died at the home of his son, J. K.
GREEN, in Nebraska, at the age of seventy. Of the seven children, the
five who reached maturity are: Mattie Fair, deceased; Lucinda Lloyd,
deceased; Elizabeth Bailey, of Custer County, Nebraska; J. K.; and
William Jackson, who lives with his brother, J. K., in Dewey.

When J. K. GREEN was twelve years of age he went with his father to
Lincoln County, Kentucky, and grew up and had his education in his
native state. In 1869, a few years after reaching his majority, he
moved out to Nebraska and became one of the pioneer settlers in
Custer County. He was a small boy when the war broke out between the
states but before its close he got into the service and was with a
regiment of Kentucky Volunteer Infantry seven months three days under
Major BRIDGEWATER. In Nebraska Mr. Green did some pioneer farming,
but in 1887 engaged in the hotel business at Broken Bow and continued
that five years. From Nebraska he removed to Appleton City in St.
Clair County; Missouri, and combined farming with the livery business
for five years. Mr. Green removed to Oklahoma in 1899, and for six
years was a practical farmer on land within a mile and a half of
Dewey. He then removed to town, and has since maintained a real
estate office, and also has extensive interests in the oil industry.

Mr. Green is a democrat, and has been a member of the Christian
Church for forty-five years. On May 16, 1876 there was solemnized a
double wedding, at which time J. K. Green married Amanda E. BAILEY,
and Elizabeth Green, a sister, married Thomas T. BAILEY, a brother of
Amanda. Mr. and Mrs. Green's marriage has been blessed with seven
children: Ida, who died at the age of ten months; Ira W., of
Washington County, Oklahoma; Artilla Winifred, wife of A. C. CLIFFORD
of Dewey; George Samuel, a machinist in this state; Thomas L.,
employed at Dewey; James William, a farmer; and Mamie, living at home.

Typed for OKGenWeb by: Donald E. Conley, November 6, 1998.