Evening star., 1936-06-09

In failing health for some time. He
suffered complications due to age and
heart disease and for the past two
weeks oxygen had been administered
to him periodically. The treatment
did him little good, however, and he
failed to rally from a sinking spell
yesterday.
Funeral Plans Indefinite.
No date has been set for the fu-
neral. but the body will be sent to
the Greens Eastern estate at Round
Hill, South Dartmouth, Mass. He
will be buried at Bellows Falls. VT.
Col Green was born in London,
England, August %, 1858.
AS was to be expected of the son
of a woman known chiefly for her
practicability. Col Green began his
own career at the bottom Of the in
dustrial ladder After graduating
from Fordham College in 1888. he OBJ
tanned a clerkship in the office Of the
Connecticut River Railroad.
He climbed steadily and later be-
came a director of the Baltimore &
Ohio Southwestern Railway and other
railroad corporations. In 1893 he
was elected president of the Texas
Midland Railroad, in which he held
controlling interest.
He had been a director of numerous
banks, including the Seaboard Ma
tioial Of New York, to whose board
he was elected in 1910.
He was a commissioner and director
of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition
In 1904.
Active in Politics.
Active for years in Texas Republi-
can politics, he served as chairman
of the State committee there for
three terms. He attended several ma
tional conventions of his party as a
delegate.
At one time he headed the Tarpon
Club of Texas and other organizations
in that State.
Mrs. Green was at Col. Green's bed
side when he died. Mrs. Matthew
Asthor Wilkes of New York is a sister.
The children's ward at MiamiS Mu-
nicipal Jackson Memorial Hospital
was equipped by Col Green and bears
his name. He sent IS boys, members
of a Miami Junior drum and bugle
corps, to New York and Washington
one Summer. He had no children.
At the time of his marriage in 1917
30 Miss Mabel E. Harlow of Highland
Park. Ill, after an acquaintance of Is
years. he told newspaper reporters that
he was marrying for a real home"
I'm marrying the best and most
aapein1a 1iftla Iody in tho ur0rl6 y hp
said. Il am marrying quiet little
lady to whom 1 can go when I am bur-
dened with the troubles of the world.
want to say right now that I am not
marrying a society bud. do not know
who is going to be boss. All can say
Is that I am going to try to be-"
Wedding Present Money.
His wedding present to his wife was
kl25000 in Liberty bonds and $500, 900
In cash. While the couple could well
have afforded a special train for the
honeymoon trip from Chicago to New
York, they travelled in regular Pull
man compartment.
Upon his mothers death the fortune,
estimated at S100,000000, passed to
Col. Green and his sister in trust for
10 years and after that to them out
right.
: Col. Green remembered his mothers
love for the ancestral home at South
Dartmouth, and in 1917 he and his
wife decided to make it their Summer
place. He preserved the old Gideon
Howland farm house as memorial
and made plans for the conversion OF
the mansion into museum OF whaling
relics and Americana.
His 250-acre estate in nearby South
Dartmouth was transformed into a
playground open to the public. This
included use of bathing beaches.
S5OO,000 to Wellesley.
With Mrs. Green, he became inter-
ested in late years in the rearing of
girls, and it is known that he af-
forded an education to II of them.
Several were sent to Wellesley Col
lege, to which he and his sister
gave $50o,oO0 for the erection of a
building in memory of their mother.
He also financed the education of a
pumber of French orphans.
f After his mothers death, Col. Green
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