Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Green, Nelson K. January 14, 1853 - 
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Green, Nelson K., Warren, was born in Danube, January 14, 1853, a son of 
Herkimer and Emily T. (Wolcott) Green.   The grandfather, Dr. Felix Green, was 
a son of Ambrose, and was born in Rhode Island, a pioneer of Danube, where he 
lived nearly all his life.   He married Elma Lester, and had seven children: 
John. William, Felix, Anna, Polly, Elizabeth and Ruth.   He held various town 
offices,   Felix lived on the Hudson River near Albany, in the town of 
Scodack, Rensselaer county, and early came to Danube.   He was an active Whig 
and Republican, and served in nearly oil the town offices.   He was a Free 
Mason, and died July 18, 1857, aged eighty-one.   His wife died in 1859.   She 
was Lana Herkimer, (her sisters being Margaret, Alida, Catharine and Gertrude, 
her brothers, John and Joseph.) and was born in Danube, a daughter of George 
Herkimer, who was a brother of Genera! Nicholas Herkimer, whose wife was a 
daughter of General Schuyler.   Of thirteen children Felix reared ten: Alida, 
Jane, Mary, Helen, James, George, Charles, Herkimer, Augustus, John. Herkimer 
Green was born in Danube, November 20, 1811.   In 1870 he moved to Cayuga 
county, having sold the old homestead, a part of the Herkimer estate inherited 
by his mother, and in 1882 removed to his present home in Warren, Herkimer 
county, on a farm of 250 acres. He has reared two children: John H., who was 
born in Danube August 11, 1846, married Nellie Wartman, daughter of Jacob and 
Mary Wartman, of Little Falls. Subject's mother was born in Shoreham, Vermont, 
daughter of Seaman and Huldah (Kellogg) Wolcott.   Nelson K. Green was reared 
on a farm, and received a common school education, supplemented by a course in 
the academy at Little Falls.   He has followed farming, is an active 
Republican, and married Mary O., daughter of John N. and Rebecca (Soule) 
Smith, of Sterling, Cayuga county. They had three children : George H., Eima 
R. and Emily E. John H. Green received his education at Little Falls Academy, 
and then at Hamilton College, graduating in the class of '74. He has taught 
school, and was admitted to the bar in 1876. He has served in town offices as
a Republican, and is now engaged in farming in Warren. He has the old lock of 
the door of General Herkimer's house, also a chair of his, and other pieces of 
furniture and relics which belonged to the general. George Green, brother of 
Herkimer, is a physician at St. Johnsville, and John Green is a prominent 
physician at Sharon Springs.


Additional Comments:
source:
History of Herkimer County, New York : illustrated with portraits of many of 
its citizens
edited by George A. Hardin ; assisted by Frank H. Willard
Syracuse, New York : D. Mason, 1893
550 p., 276 p. : ill., maps, ports.

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