Jones-Linn County IA Archives Biographies.....Green, John A. December 10, 1844 - February 25, 1920
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Author: Annals of Iowa - 1922

John A. Green was born in County Roscommon, Ireland, December 10, 1844, and 
died at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, February 25, 1920.  Burial was in Holy Cross 
Cemetery, Anamosa.  He emigrated to America with his parents in 1852, 
stopping in Boston, where he attended school.  He then for ten years worked 
as a stonecutter and letterer.  He came to Joliet, Illinois, in 1865, and to 
the hills west of Anamosa, later known as Stone City, in 1868.  Here he 
opened the limestone quarries which in a few years developed into a concern 
employing at one time several hundred men, thriving until cement came into 
general use, when the quarries declined.  Mr. Green also successfully 
conducted farming and fine stock raising.  He was progressive, successful and 
generous, and was a liberal supporter of church and hospital work.  He was a 
leader in the Democratic party of his county and district.  In 1891 he was 
elected senator from the Cedar-Jones district, and served in the 
Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth General Assemblies.  In 1904 he was the 
unsuccessful candidate for congress in the Fifth District.


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