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ELEAZER GREEN, a member of the Chautauqua county bar, was born at Remsen, Oneida county, New York, March 16, 1846, and is the youngest son of Eleazer, Sr., and Sylvina (Kent) Green. His paternal grandfather, Ezra Green, was a native of Litchfield, Connecticut, where he was a hotel keeper, served in the Revolutionary war, removed to Oneida county, N. Y., where he followed farming, was a Presbyterian and married Amy Church of his native State, by whom he had thirteen children. His maternal grandfather, Silas Kent, was born in New England, removed to Oneida county, this State, married Annis Dayton, by whom he had seven children; he was a farmer and died when comparatively a young man.

Eleazer Green, Sr., was born in Oneida county, May 16, 1800, and removed in 1847 to Chautauqua county, where he died September 12, 1884. He was a man of intelligence and education, served for several years as superintendent of the public schools of Oneida county, and was also a teacher for many years in the schools of that county. He was one of the early abolitionists, and after the Republican party came into existence he supported its principles. He was a prominent and useful citizen of the town of Busti, in Chautauqua county, owning a large farm in that town, which he managed successfully for many years. He married Sylvina Kent, and they passed over sixty years of a happily married life together. They were the parents of six children: Broughton W., a farmer of Busti; Sophia (deceased), who was the wife of George W. Smith, of Ohio; Betsy S., wife of Elias Hurlbut, of Kansas; Amy C., wife of Amos Palmer, of Jamestown; William E., who died at the age of sixteen years, and Eleazer.

Eleazer Green was reared in the towns of Busti and Harmony, and received his education in the common schools and Westfield academy. Leaving school in 1867, he entered the Albany Law School, graduating therefrom in 1868, when he was admitted to the bar; he then entered the law offices of Cook & Lockwood, where he read for two years; he then opened an office in Jamestown, where he has since practiced his profession. In 1882 he became a member of the present law firm of Sheldon, Green, Stevens & Benedict. In addition to his law practice he has dealt in real estate. He is the founder of “Greenhurst,” upon Lake Chautauqua, where the hotel known as “The Greenhurst” is situated.

On November 5, 1873, Eleazer Green married Mary E. Brown, daughter of Samuel and Clarissa Brown, who formerly lived at Ashville, Chautauqua county. They have three children: Edward James, born April 6, 1875; Ella W., born November 15, 1876, and Clara L., born August 24, 1879. Mr. Green is a republican and an attendant at the Congregational church.

Aside from the duties of his law practice, Mr. Green has interested himself in the subject of fish culture, and has devoted much time and attention to the subject of increasing the supply, in Lake Chautauqua, of the famous food and game fish — the muskallonge. The muskallonge had never been propagated artificially, and it was necessary to study its habits in order to successfully and intelligently do so. Mr. Green, believing in the practicability of the idea, raised a fund with which to pay the expense of experiments, contributing largely of his own means to the enterprise, corresponded with Seth Green, one of the fish commissioners of the State of New York, and a noted fish culturist, sending Mr. Green muskallonge, from time to time, for his examination, that he might learn more of their habits, time of spawning, etc., and such an interest was awakened that the commissioners of fisheries of the State of New York, took hold of the enterprise, and, with the fund raised by Eleazer Green, augmented by State funds, prosecuted experiments until it has been demonstrated that muskallonge can be successfully hatched artificially.