JAMES E. GREEN, a native of Harrison County, West Virginia,
a son of Job and Eliza (Stout) Green, was born December 28, 1840. He was reared
on a farm, receiving his education in the common schools. When seven years of
age he went to live with his Grandfather Green, remaining with him until twenty
years of age, when his grandfather becoming disabled they returned to his
father’s home, and at the time of the breaking out of the Rebellion he was
engaged in superintending an oil well which he was forced to leave by the
rebels. He was then employed by the
Government as teamster three years. In March, 1864, he enlisted in Company L,
Third West Virginia Cavalry, and served over two years. He participated in
several skirmishes but no important battles, being mostly engaged on guard
duty. He was discharged July 10, 1865,
and after the close of the war engaged in the mercantile business at Romine’s
Mills with Robert Davis, under the firm name of Green & Davis. A year later
he bought the interest of Davis, and continued the business alone until the
fall of 1867, when he sold out and engaged in buying and shipping stock until
his removal to Iowa in 1868. He carried on his father’s farm five years and
then bought forty acres, to which he has since added 140 acres, and now has one
of the best farms in the county. His land was wholly unimproved, but he has
brought it under a fine state of cultivation and erected good and substantial
buildings. He was married September 4,
1873, to Miss Mary C. Stickle, daughter of Nicholas E. Stickle. They have one
daughter – Iris L. In politics Mr. Green is a Republican.
SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Record of Clarke
County, Iowa, Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois, 1886 p. 286-7
