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Below is a family biography included in Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Chautauqua County, New York published by John M. Gresham & Co. in 1891.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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JOHN T. GREEN, who has been a leading citizen and merchant of Sherman, this county, for twenty-seven years, was born January 31, 1829, in Lincolnshire, a pastoral county on the east coast of England, and is a son of William and Martha (Tomlinson) Green, both natives of the same place. His parents came to America in 1830, locating near Utica, this State, for a short time, thence coming to Chautauqua town, and finally settled in Sherman, this county, where the father spent the remainder of his life. He was a carpenter and joiner by trade, was supervisor of the town of Sherman from 1856 to 1857, and in 1858, married Martha Tomlinson, by whom he had five children. He died March 25, 1862, at the age of fifty -nine years.

John T. Green was reared on a farm, and received his education in the common schools. After leaving school he learned the carpenter trade, at which he worked for a short time, when he bought out the firm of Adams & Harrington, and engaged in the mercantile business, associating with him W. F. Green, now cashier of the bank of Sherman, the firm name being J. T. & W. F. Green, which was dissolved in 1886, since which time John T. Green has carried on the business alone. He also owns two hundred acres of good land near Sherman, was supervisor of that town from 1870 to 1872, and was again elected in 1874. In politics he is a republican, and when the village of Sherman was formed, he was elected its first president, in October, 1890, and at the spring election in 1891, he was re-elected. This is a distinction of which any man might feel proud.

John T. Green was married January 7, 1851, to Livia P. Hall, a daughter of Ahira Hall, a farmer of Portland, this county. Mr. and Mrs. Green have been blest with three children, two sons and one daughter: William A., the eldest son, is now in Australia, having been sent there by a manufacturing syndicate to represent them; Frederick R., who is the present cashier of the Fredonia National Bank, this county; and Florence, is at home.

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This family biography is one of 658 biographies included in Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Chautauqua County, New York published in 1891. 

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