Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1909-08-26
John Simn Green.

J0hn Sims G1een was born In
Bucks county, Pa. on Nov. 80, 1874.
He was the son of Capt. John Green
and Grandson of Capt. John Green
Sr. who served in the Continental
Navy during the Revolution and
who in 1884, in the Empress of Chi
ma, of New work, carried the first
American flag into Chinese waters,
on a voyage to Canton. The mother
of John Sims Green was Hester
Craig, Daughter of Capt. James Craig
of Philadelphia, Capt. in the Penn
sylvania State Navy during the
Revolution and who had command
ed a vessel sent by the colony to aid
the mother country in the war with
France in 1852.
After attending school in Phila-
delphia John Sims Green entered
the counting house of Paul Beck i'm
that city and there received a
thorough business training. He was
still there when in Aug. 1911 he en-
listed in a volunteer company for the
second war with England This
company was "A part of the State
Fencibles and its Capt. G. + Biddle,
was made Colonel, when, as the 1st.
Pa. Vols it was mustered into the
Federal service. Green who was
one of the last survivors of his COM
pany received in his later years IA
pension for his services in the war of
1912 the certificate being issued in
1872.
After being mustered out with his
company Green went TO Haiti and
after two years in business there
went to Charleston S. G. and i'm 1878
moved to Tennessee where he went
into general business as country
storekeeper with his cousin Walter
Sims. In 1882 he moved to Sui.
livan county Pa, then part of Ly-
coming, where from his grandfather
James Craig, he and his brothers
nd sisters had inherited some 10
90 res of land.
Mr.. Green had married in Tennes-
see on Nov. 30 1921 (his 9th. birth
t5nlc t3iIlcIttif4ap Ihttif4apeth ct 44e1ltefty ~A IL
was also the anniversary of the
brides birthday she being then just
seventeen. The moving from Tennea-
see in those days was a tremendous
undertaking the trip being made by
boat to Pittsburg, then by wag-
on over the mountains to Penns-
burg, now Muncy. The party con-
sisted of Green, his wife, and their
four children, Greens brother Wal
ter and his brother-in-la Robert w.
Henley,
They reached Pennsylvania so
early in the spring that snow block
ed their road farther and they delay
ed six weeks then pushed on to
Shine stown where they wintered
while roads We're making and the
home in the wilderness was being
prepared. There the party was
increased by the birth of the fifth
child.
Green had settled for his own use
site about four miles from Dushore
and there built his cabin. There lat
er he cleared up farm of 400 acres
which eventually passed to the fam
lily of his oldest daughter, the wife OF
| Lewis Holmes. Green had good
education with general knowledge
of legal forms and in that wild and
unsettled country, was teacher,
Judge and counsel to the commu-
ity for many years. It is related OF
him that he had the peculiar faulty
of being able to write in due form a
deed, will, note or any other legal
paper without fla, while at the same
time writing with the other handQol
he was ambi-deXtrous) a persona
letter or while reading aloud from 3
book or paper.
When the great famine of 1Si,
devastated Ireland, forcing thous
ands to seek homes here, Green wa
enabled to assist many to bring thei
families from the Old Country to tn
new land of plenty and to this ola.
there are many defendants of thes
in Sullivan county who speak tn
name of E" Long John Green will
gratitude and affection.
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