My Genealogy Hound

LEANDER GREEN, druggist, Webb City, is a native of Woodford county, Ky., born Feb. 27, 1828, and is the fifth of a family of nine children, five of whom are still living. His father, Josiah Green, was a Virginian, and his grandfather, Jeremiah Green, was a North Carolinian, and first cousin to Gen. Green of Revolutionary fame. Jeremiah was also a Revolutionary soldier, and served the entire seven years of the war. Leander’s mother was a Kentuckian by birth, whose maiden name was Rebecca Long, Mr. Green’s parents moved to Illinois in 1830, settling in Sangamon county, near Springfield, where they lived until their deaths, Mrs. Green’s occurring in 1844 and Mr. Green’s 1854. Judge Green came to Missouri in April, 1868, and settled at Medoc, in Jasper county, where he engaged in the general mercantile business for about ten years, and farmed for about five years. In 1880 he moved his family to Webb City and engaged in the drug business, and in a short time became interested in mining, and now, in company with Capt. J. G. Reid, owns two paying mines, which are supplied with all the latest improved machinery. They employ about twenty men constantly. Mr. Green was married in Dec. 1852, in Christian county, Ill., to Miss Mary E. Baker. They have two children, William, a prominent attorney of Carthage, partner in the firm of Thomas & Green, and Harry, who is now attending school at Drury College in Springfield. In 1872 Mr. Green was elected a member of the county court of Jasper county and served one term. He is a Republican in politics, and has been the nominee of his party for the office of member of the General Assembly of the State. He served for four years in the Forty-first Illinois Infantry, enlisting at Decatur, Aug. 5, 1861. In 1862 he was commissioned second lieutenant of Company I, and shortly after advanced to first lieutenant. He was soon afterward transferred to the quartermaster’s department and stationed at Springfield, where he served till the close of the war. Both he and his estimable wife have been members of the Christian Church for thirty-five years.