Ben F. Green, M. D., Union Co., AR., then W. Carroll Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller Aug 2001


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Ben F. Green, M. D.  Since 1916 Doctor Green has practiced his 
profession and supervised his extensive planting interests in the 
vicinity of Kilbourne in west Carroll Parish.  He was formerly in 
practice in Union Parish, and has earned the reputation of a very able 
physician and successful business man in every community where his 
mature life has been spent.

He was born over the state line in Union County, Arkansas, on a 
farm,May 10, 1878, son of George W. and Mary (Lavender) Green.  His 
grandfather, Sidney Green, was from Alabama, and lost his life while 
handling a vicious mule.  George W. Green was only a child when his 
father was killed.  He was born in Union County, Arkansas, as was his 
wife, Mary Lavender, their birth places being a mile from the farm 
where they located after their marriage and where they lived out their 
industrious lives.  The father died in 1920, at the age of seventy-one 
and the mother died in 1913, aged fifty-five.  They had thirteen 
children, the four sons being: Ben F.; John, a farmer near Baton Rouge,
Louisiana; Fred, in the real estate business at Bastrop; and Herbert 
E., a telegraph operator and railroad agent at Warren, Arkansas.

Ben F. Green grew up on a farm in Union County, Arkansas, attended 
public schools there, and at the age of twenty married and took up 
farming on his own account.  He put all the energies at his command 
into his work, with the result that he suffered a serious breakdown of 
health.  While recuperating he took up the study of medicine, spending 
the first year in the medical department of the University of Arkansas 
at Little Rock, his second year in the University of Tennessee at 
Nashville and then returned to Little Rock to complete his course. 
Before graduating he took three or four courses during a five months' 
summer course.  After graduating he spent five months of unofficial 
work in the University of the South, at Sewanee, Tennessee, where 
without missing a single day he put in six days each week for the five
months' period.  Doctor Green for nine months practiced at Caledonia in
Union County, Arkansas, nine miles south of Eldorado, and was 
practically continuing his work in the same community when he moved 
over into Louisiana, at Louter, in Union Parish.  He was there seven 
years, and in 1916 moved to Kilbourne, in West Carroll Parish.  In 
connection with his medical practice he has always looked after some 
planting interests.

Doctor Green married Bamma Holloway, daughter of Douglas Holloway, of 
Louter.  She died November 1, 1922, leaving three children: Miles, 
Wallace and Howard.  Since her death Doctor Green married Dollie Lewis,
of Union Parish.  She is a member of the Baptist Church.  He is 
affiliated with the Farmerville Lodge of Masons.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 389, by Henry E. Chambers.  
Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New 
York, 1925.