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J. KELSO GREEN, son of Joseph E. Green, was born Sept. 10, 1871, and was raised on a farm in his native township. He took a course in special branches at Normal, and when but eighteen he began teaching. For seven years he was one of the most popular and successful teachers in the mixed schools, being engaged in Hopewell, Penn and Newton townships, after which he spent a year as teacher in the grammar schools of Jacksonville, and was then at New Cumberland for a term in the intermediate grade. He was then honored with election to the position of principal of the schools of New Cumberland, and after four years of faithful and conscientious service, in May, 1902, was elected county superintendent of Cumberland county, making an excellent fight, as he had strong opposition to overcome.

On Dec. 29, 1892, Mr. Green was married to Blanch Ada Foreman, of Jacksonville, daughter of George Foreman (deceased) and Elizabeth (Coffey) Foreman. Mr. and Mrs. Green have had three children: Margretta Blanch, who died at the age of two years and three months; Louetta M. E., born Jan. 10, 1900; and Mark, born March 20, 1902. The family reside at No. 110 West South street, Carlisle, having lived in the city since the summer of 1902. Mr. and Mrs. Green are members of the Presbyterian Church, in which they have taken a very active part, Mr. Green being prominent in the Sabbath-school work as a teacher.

Prior to her marriage Mrs. Green was a teacher in the public schools, so that she and her learned husband have many tastes in common, and she is invaluable to him in his work, for she so thoroughly understands his methods and is in such perfect sympathy with his ideas, that she is able to render aid which no one else could. Both Mr. and Mrs. Green are numbered among the highly cultured people of Carlisle, and have gathered about them a circle of congenial people, of which they are the leading and animating center.