Biographical Sketch of William S. GREEN (1893); Chester County, PA Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by John Morris . Copyright. All Rights Reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ********************************************************* Source: "Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Chester County, Pennsyl- vania, comprising a historical sketch of the county," by Samuel T. Wiley and edited by Winfield Scott Garner, Gresham Publishing Company, Phila- delphia, PA, 1893, page 777. "WILLIAM S. GREEN, a leading and influential citizen of Malvern, and who is largely interested in the marble business there and at Atglen, is a son of Charles E. and Mary (Jones) Green, and was born at Marion Square, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, October 16, 1843. He received his education at Ply- mouth meeting house in his native county and then learned the trade of marble cutter, which he has followed ever since 1868. He first opened a shop at Waynesburg, now Honeybrook, where he remained until 1889, when he came to Malvern. He has a large shop and marble yard at that place and a half inter- est in another shop and yard at Atglen, which is conducted under the firm name of Green & Miller. He does a good business in all lines of marble, stone and monumental work, which is noted for elegance of design, finish and workmanship. It has ever been the aim of Mr. Green to furnish first- class work, and he turns out fine head stones, monuments and memorials of various styles and sizes in polished granite or marble. He likewise attends to all kinds of cemetery work. At the agricultural fair which was held at West Chester in September, 1891, he took first premium for the best display of stone and monumental work. "In 1869 Mr. Green married Mary C. Kasley, who was a daughter of Samuel Kasley, and died in 1870, leaving one child, a daughter named Mary, who is now dead. On September 10, 1872, Mr. Green wedded Laura, daughter of Cloud B. Batton, and by his second marriage has three children, one son and two daughters: Embury E., Matora A., and Beulah A. "His paternal grandfather was a native of Doylestown, Bucks county, and by his wife, Elizabeth, had three children: Beulah, dead; Charles E., now de- ceased; and Martha, widow of William Seitzingler of New York city. "Charles E. Green (father) was born August 23, 1820, and died at Norristown, this State, June 10, 1892. He was a merchant tailor, and a democrat, and married Mary Jones, who is a daughter of John Jones, a drover, of Welsh lineage, and who still resides at Norristown. Their children were: William S., the subject of this sketch; Beulah, wife of Rev. D. W. Gordon, pastor of Centenary Methodist Episcopal church of Philadelphia; Martha, who married Rev., D. M. Gordon, a Methodist minister; Charles Edward, jr., a contractor and builder of Norristown, this State; and Flora, wife of Benjamin F. Whitehead, a grocer of Norristown. "In politics William S. Green has always adhered to the Democratic party. In religious belief and church membership he is a Methodist, and is a trustee and steward and the class leader of the church of that denomination at Mal- vern. He is a member of Thompson Lodge, No. 340, Free and Accepted Masons."