Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-02-16
NORVIN GREEN DEAD.
PRESIDENT OF THE WESTERN UNION
TELEGRAPH COMPANY.

Man In Whom Jay Gould Had Conf
dence-On n Military Faculty With
Biaine-Physician and Politician-From
Small Beginning to Affiuence.
LOUISVILLE, Feb. 13.-Dr Norvin Green,
president of the Western Union Telegraph
company, died in this city Sunday
DR.. Norvin Green and his wife three
years ago celebrated their golden wedding
at their handsome home in this city. He
married in 1910, his wife being Miss Martha
English, a daughter of Captain James w.
English, who fought in the battle of Tip
pecanoe and through the war of 1912 up-
der General William Henry Harrison. The
English family then lived in Carroll
county and after the marriage DR.. Green,
who had raised sufficient money to edu-
cate himself by contracting to cut cord
wood in Hunters bottom, moved on the
Kentucky side of the river, opposite Madi-
son, Ind. He had been forced to do labor
because of the bankruptcy of his father,
who lost his all by becoming surety on
guardians bond.
For the past 80 years the greatest part of
his time has been spent in New York but
he has retained his citizenship in this city.
In 1873 he removed his family to New
York, bringing ttsm back in 1885
DIR. Norvin Green was born in New AL
bany, April II, 1878 While child his fam
lily removed to this state, so that his early
life was identified with and fashioned by
his residence in Kentucky. His education
was thorough rather than broad-studies
which were suited to the professional life
which he had mapped out. His preferences
were in the direction of solid knowledge
rather than classic culture. With such
tendencies, and after thorough course of
study under the able faculty of the medical
department of the University of Louisville,
he graduated in 1910 with honor He soon
entered upon a successful practice Not
long afterward he became physician of the
Western Military academy Mt Drennen's
Springs, KY, of which the late James G..
Blaine was at that time one of the Junior
instructors
A Kentucky Politician.
Like almost all young men of spirit in
Kentucky, Dr. Green early connected him
self with the politics OF the state He was
elected for several terms to the Kentucky
legislature and in 1858 was appointed com
missioner of the United States in charge of
the construction of the national building
in Louisville. While engaged in the duties
of his appointment he became one of the
lessees of the United Morse and Peoples
Telegraph line between Louisville and New
Orleans, and becoming president of these
interests, united in the name of the South
ern Telegraph company, he became identi-
fled with the history of the telegraph.
In 1865, when the American United
States and Western Union lines were con-
solidated, DR.. Green was chosen vice presi-
dent, and with the exception of about
three years, during which he accepted the
presidency of the Louisville, Cincinnati and
Lexington Railway company, he retained
that Office until January, 1873, when he re-
turned to duty as vice president of the
Western Union Telegraph company. 1t
was during this interim of three years that
he afterward entered the politics of the
state and was waited upon by delegation
of the legislature and urged to accept the
nomination for United States senator. 1t
is said that he could have been elected but
for clerical error in the count of the
nominating caucus. DIR. Green was elected
president of the Western Union Telegraph
company April H. 1873.