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did an extensive and prosperous business. In 1847 he formed a partnership with John Gettys, under the firm name of Green & Gettys, and went to the city of St. Louis, where they operated one year. The next year they came back to Pittsburg, and remained until 1850. The latter year he purchased a farm near Strongstown, Indiana county, consisting of one hundred and fifty-five acres, and lived upon it, jointly following farming and carpentering until 1857, when he removed to Chest Springs, this county, and followed his trade a short time, when, in connection with his brother William, he founded the first planing-mill of Chest Springs, and also operated a steam sawmill in connection with it, shipping the product to the Pittsburg and Philadelphia markets. This partnership continued two years, when the subject of this sketch became sole owner, and operated it alone for a time, and then sold out, together with all his possessions in Chest Springs, which included considerable real estate, and in 1867 removed to Iowa county, Iowa. There he purchased a farm of one hundred and thirty acres, and for a time followed farming and carpentering. He remained in Iowa county twenty- three years, and built, during that time, thirteen churches. In 1889 his wife died, and shortly afterward he returned to Chest Springs, where he embarked in the confectionery business, which was later enlarged to a green grocery and notion store. Politically he is a republican, and served a number of terms in Iowa as a member of the school board. Fraternally, he is a member of the Masonic order, and is a past grand representative of the Grand Lodge of Iowa I.0.0.F. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. He has been twice married. His first marriage was on April 2, 1844, with Miss Eliza- |
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beth Luker, of Allegheny city, and this marriage resulted in the birth of nine children: James L., a carpenter who lives at Deep River, Iowa; Rachel Matilda, wife of D. C. Little, a carpenter of Summit, Pennsylvania; John R. a carpenter of Grinnell, Iowa; Wesley L., deceased; Elizabeth Annabelle, wife of Charles Wessels, superintendent of the Grinnell Agricultural works, at Grinnell, Iowa; Angeline Frances, wife of Finley Glendennin, also of Grinnell; Mary Catherine, wife of John Brown, of Graham county, Kansas; and Henry W., deceased. On January 14, 1890, Mr. Green married as his second wife Miss Jane Douglas, of Chest Springs.
JOHN HONAN, respected as a citizen and successful as a business man, was born in Ireland, and is a son of William and Sarah (Maher) Honan. Desiring to escape the crowded conditions of his native country and to seek a wider field for his individual efforts, he came to America in 1860, locating in Minersville, now the Fourteenth ward of the city of Johnstown, where he has ever since resided. Having learned the trade of a shoemaker in his native country, he followed it two years in this country. Laborers at this time were much in demand by the Cambria Iron company, and he left the bench to become an employee of that company, working for a time in the mines, and later in the blast furnace and the steel mill. He then embarked in the hotel business in Minersville, which line he successfully pursued for ten years, since which time be has been engaged in the mercantile business. |
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