The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-10-02
CELEBRATE GOLDEN WEDDING
Editor Green and Wife of New UIm
Married Halt a Century.
From MONDAYS Daily.

At their home in New Ulm on Satur-
dav, Editor and Mrs. James j. Green
celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their
marriage. This golden wedding completes
a half century of happy married life for
n of Minnesota's pioneer publishers
and "a man who is still actively engaged
in the pursuit of newspaper making.
Mr.. Green is a native of Lancaster
county, Pa, where he was born Jan. 90,
1880. Miss Minerva Whitridge was born
at Lewisburg, o.. Feb. 4, 1885. On Sept.
81, 1858, when the veteran editor had
completed his apprenticeship to the
printing trade and shortly after the
graduation of Miss Whitridge from the
Ohio Methodist Conference college, they
were united in marriage at Springfield,
O., and the following year Mr.. Green es-
tablished his first paper. 1t was called
the Springfield Nonpareil, but after con
Quoting it through 1915, failing health
compelled the editor to r%elinquish the
tripod and seek a change of climate.
One year later 1850 the couple came
to Minnesota and spent their first winter
in the territory at the village of st.
Anthony.
1t was at this time that the capital re-
moval bill was being discussed by the
legislature and when events seemed to
indicate st. Peter as the seat of govern
ment, Mr.. Green was naturally attract
ed toward that place.
In May, 1887, he made the trip from
st. Paul to st. Peter and a few weeks
later launched The Traverse DIES Sioux
Reporter, a sheet which was doomed to
be short-lived, for the financial panic of
that year coming on, its publication
suspended after five numbers had
been issued.
For twelve months the proprietor fol-
lowed other vocations, but in June, 1858,
he established The Minnesota Statesman,
continuing to run the paper until the
fall Of 1862, when he enlisted in Troop
E., First Minnesota Mounted Rangers.
He was promoted to regimental quar-
ter-master sergeant and served. thirteen
months with Colonel McPhairs command,
being mustered out at the close of the
Dakota campaign and after the rout of
the Sioux.
April, 1865, found him the owner of
the first and only paper in LIE Sueur
county. He had revived The Minnesota
Statesman, which was not issued during
the Indian war and moved the plant to
lie Sueur. One of the early issues of the
paper contained an account of the assas-
sination of President Lincoln, but with
in two months Mr.. Green was himself the
victim of disaster, a fire breaking out
at lie Sueur and completely destroying
his type and materials.
His removal to Winona followed and
from 1866 to 1869 he published The Wi
mona Democrat, going from there to st.
Cloud, where he owned a half interest in
The Times.
The st. Anthony Democrat was his
next love, he conducting the paper for
two years and then returned to LIE Sueur
to establish The Sentinel, which he edit
ed and published for nineteen years.
In 1892, however, he removed to
Hutchinson and established The Demo
crat, remaining in control of the paper
until 1895, when he came to New Ulm to
buy The New Ulm News, his present
property.
All his life Mr.. Green has staunchly
advocated the principles of Democracy.
Mr.. Green is a charter member of the
Minnesota Editorial association and,
with the exception of Joseph Wheelock
of The st. Paul Pioneer Press, and w.
I. Hotchkiss of The Preston Republican
is now the oldest newspaper man in the
state. In spite of their advanced years,
both he and his wife enjoy perfect health.
They have a family of four children.