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DANIEL PARK GREEN, a farmer and stock-raiser of Pettis County residing on section 23, township 45, range 21, was born in Barlow Township, Washington County, Ohio, October 14, 1837. He is the son of Charles Wesley and Susan (Park) Green, the former born in Watertown Township, Washington County, Ohio, in January, 1812, and the latter a native of Oneida County, N. Y. His mother was taken by her parents to Ohio at the age of two years, and grew to womanhood in Washington County, where in 1832 she became the wife of Charles W. Green, a farmer and trader of the county.

While his educational advantages were as good as the common schools of the time afforded, our subject has gained his present fund of information mainly by observation and systematic reading. He worked for his father until twenty-two years of age, when he began for himself, receiving at first $8 per month. In 1859, during the oil excitement, he went to Virginia, but remained there only a short time. On his return to Ohio he was employed in making salt in Noble County, receiving $30 a month and his board.

During the Civil War Mr. Green volunteered in the Ohio National Guards, in 1863, and his regiment, proceeding to Virginia, took part in the engagements in the valley of the Shenandoah, on the Peninsula, on the James River, around Petersburg and Richmond, and at Monocacy. After a service of one hundred and thirty days, he was honorably discharged from the army. Later he attempted to re-enlist, but as he had become crippled in the feet from marching through the sand, they refused to accept him for further service.

In company with two other men, in 1866, Mr. Green came to Pettis County and bought a sawmill, which he set up on Flat Creek, south of Sedalia. During the two ensuing years he did a thriving business and was prospered, saving a neat sum of money. In 1868 he went back to Ohio, and in Washington County, on the 20th of February, he married Miss Eliza Carlin, with whom he had been acquainted before going to Missouri. He brought his bride to Pettis County, and soon afterward sold his sawmill and embarked in agricultural pursuits on land purchased by his father. This place he has “grubbed” and placed under cultivation, and improved with a substantial set of farm buildings. He now has one hundred and thirty-seven acres of as good land as may be found for miles around, and is justly proud of the thrifty condition of his estate.

Mrs. Green was born in Adams Township, Washington County, Ohio, October 16, 1839, and is a daughter of James and Elizabeth (Cherry) Carlin. One child has been born of her marriage, a son. Duty C., whose birth occurred on the old homestead October 30, 1871. In boyhood he received a good education, and he is a lover of good literature, keeping well informed on all subjects of the day. October 17, 1894, he married Miss Lillie F. Botts, of Flat Creek Township, Pettis County. She was born near Lamonte, this county, September 11, 1867, and is a daughter of David M. and Parlee (Thomas) Botts. In religious belief our subject and his wife hold membership with the Methodist Episcopal Church of Sedalia. Since casting his first Presidential ballot for Abraham Lincoln, in 1860, he has been loyal to the principles of the Republican party, and his son also supports that political organization.