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DR. GREEN L. POPLIN was born December 19, 1815, in Montgomery County, N. C., and reared in Bedford County, Tenn. He commenced the study of medicine at the age of seventeen, and graduated at the Louisville Medical Institute, March 5, 1842. He then returned to his home in Tennessee, and continued to practice his profession eighteen years from the same office in which, he studied. In 1853 he came to Graves County and practiced his profession here five years; he then moved to Bloomfield, Stoddard Co., Mo., in the winter of 1858, and continued to practice his profession until the breaking out of the war. In the fall of 1867 the doctor moved to Poplar Bluff, Mo., and opened a drug store and also practiced his profession until 1877, when he left that place for Mayfield, Ky., where he now resides. During his stay at the Bluffs he entered heart and soul into every public enterprise, and assisted with all his energy in the organization of the Poplar Bluff Immigration Society; was elected its president and continued to act in that position as long as it lasted. He also assisted in establishing and building the Black River Seminary, of which he was elected president. In connection with Dr. G. T. Bartlett, the doctor founded a newspaper at that place, called the Black River News, and continued editor and proprietor for five years. He served two years as one of the judges of the county court, during which time the great railroad contract was made; he acted as chairman of the court, and this contract was the means of laying the chief corner-stone of the present and prospective greatness of Poplar Bluff. In 1866 he was elected to the legislature from Stoddard County, Mo., and served two years. The doctor has been married three times; his last union was October 16, 1873, with Mattie E. Hall, of Ripley County, Mo., by whom he has one son. He has three children by his former marriages.