Caldwell-Daviess County MO Archives History .....W.P. GREEN PIONEER  
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W.P. GREEN PIONEER IN DAVIESS AND CALDWELL COUNTIES
	Narrator:  W.P. Green, 76, of Breckenridge

     W.P. Green of Breckenridge died May 1935 in Excelsior Springs where he 
had gone seeking health, but the narrator had talked with him some weeks prior 
to his death.
     His story is important to us, because he was born in 1859 in the 
Breckenridge community, which is a very early date for a birth in Caldwell 
county.  Then again he was one of the early graduates of the Breckenridge High 
school, graduating 1879.
     The Green family lived just over the line from Caldwell county into 
Daviess county on the north, in Lick Fork district.  His father moved his 
family to Mercer county and enlisted in the Union army from there, dying in 
service 1863.  Mrs. Green promptly moved her family back to Breckenridge where 
her own folks lived.  She lived with Joe Clem and his wife who then were 
running the old Caldwell House.  She married a second husband - Kelly - who 
was then working in Breckenridge in the building boom, then on in the county.  
He was then doing the rock work on the old Scanlon Rock Hotel which still 
stands as a sign of his good work.
     Mr. Green went to school first in a log cabin school one mile north of 
Breckenridge, which stood till 1928.  His second school was a two story frame 
in Breckenridge, across from the present site of the Christian church.
     When he was 16, he took the western fever and went to Washington 
territory and stayed there till it became a state.  He was the U.S. Land 
commissioner with papers signed by the president.  He was in a fair way to 
become a leader out there when his mother back in Breckenridge became a 
hopeless invalid.  He gave up his ambition and came home to care for her.  Old 
timers at Breckenridge recall seeing him wheel her around town.
     He married Frances Cummings of Breckenridge 1900 who died 1924.  There 
were four children:  Cecil died 1917, Frederick of Indianapolis, Raymond who 
died in infancy, and Margery of Kansas City.  Then there is a half brother 
R.F. Kelly.
     At Mr. Green's funeral, the schools of town were dismissed and the alumni 
attended in a body because of his devotion to the Breckenridge High schools 
for over 50 years.
     Interview  1934.


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