Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Green, William M 
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Author: Past & Present Will County IL 1907

William M. Green is a representative of the agricultural interests of Will 
county, owning a well improved farm of eighty acres, situated in Lockport 
township, where he has made his home since 1891. He is a native son of Will 
county, born in Plainfield township, in 1856. His parents, George W. and Susan 
(Heath) Green, were natives of the states of New York and Vermont, 
respectively, their natal year being 1834. The father followed farming 
throughout his entire business career but he is now living retired in Troy 
township. His family numbered eight children. William M. Green was reared and 
educated in Plainfield township, pursuing his studies in the district schools 
near his father's home. He assisted his father in the operation of the farm 
until he attained his majority, when he started out to make his own way in the 
world by engaging in the pursuits to which he had been reared, and this has 
been his occupation to the present time. He operated rented land in this 
county for several years, during which time he worked diligently and 
perserveringly, so that in due course of time he was justified in purchasing 
property in Ford county, where he made his home for seven years, subsequently 
disposing of that place and purchasing eighty acres in Lockport township, 
which constitutes his present place of residence. He has placed his land under 
a high state of cultivation and annually gathers abundant harvests as the 
result of the care and labor which he bestows upon the fields. He has a nice 
home upon his farm and many substantial outbuildings necessary for the shelter 
of grain and stock, while everything about his place is kept in good condition 
and presents a neat and attractive appearance. In 1881 Mr. Green chose as a 
companion and helpmate for life's journey Miss Genevieve Sweet, who was born 
in Channahon township, this county, in 1860, a daughter of Gilbert and 
Charlotte (Buell) Sweet. Her father passed to his final reward November 10, 
1906, while the mother makes her home in Joliet. Unto our subject and his wife 
have been born four daughters and two sons, Elmer and Irma dying in infancy; 
Lois was married in January, 1907, to Logan King, a farmer of Plainfield 
township. Jessie, Gertrude, and Ralph are still under the parental roof. With 
the exception of a few years spent in Ford county, Mr. Green has spent his 
entire life in Will county, so that he has wide and favorable acquaintance and 
is accounted an enterprising and public-spirited citizen of his home locality.

Additional Comments:
PAST AND PRESENT OF WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS By W. W. Stevens President of the 
Will County Pioneers Association; Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing 
Company, 1907

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