BIO: John A. GREEN, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, pages 425 & 426.
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  JOHN A. GREEN, justice of the peace and engaged in an insurance and real 
estate business at Irvona, Pa., has been a lifelong resident of Clearfield 
county and was born at Glen Hope, February 3, 1861.  His parents were James H. 
and Sarah (Keagy) Green.
  The Green and the Keagy families both were early settlers in this section.  
The paternal grandfather was John Green, who established his first home in the 
county, near what is now Marion postoffice.  He was a farmer and died on his 
own land.  James H. Green became a large land owner and a prominent lumberman.  
He bought the logs and paid for the cutting of them and with his brother-in-
law, Abraham Beyers, made the first drive of logs down Clearfield Creek.  The 
value of these logs was about $16,000, and they were destroyed in what was 
called the Buckshot war, which was a local trouble between the lumbermen and 
the raftsmen.  Mr. Green died soon after this misfortune, in 1867, at the age 
of forty years.  He married Sarah Keagy, who died in 1883, when aged fifty-one 
years.  Her parents were Abraham and Elizabeth Keagy, who came from Delaware 
and were among the earliest settlers on Clearfield Creek.  Mrs. Elizabeth Keagy 
was born in 1800 and died in 1881.  Five children were born to James H. and 
Sarah Green, one of whom died in infancy, the four survivors being:  Abraham 
Keagy, who has been blacksmith at the Pine Run mines for five years, married 
Emma J., a daughter of G. W. Rex; John A.; Walter E., who resides on a farm 
near Marion, adjoining the old Green homestead, married Martha Barrett; and H. 
Irene, who is a trained nurse in Philadelphia, where she has resided for the 
past seven years.
  John A. Green was educated in the public schools and for twenty-six terms 
engaged in teaching and also taught in several summer Normal schools.  He then 
became manager for the Wister Supply Company and was superintendent for a time, 
taking charge in the spring of 1906.  He was one of the pioneer merchants at 
Irvona but moved from that place to Glen Hope, where he spent six years and 
then returned to Irvona where he has been in business for the past eight years.  
In 1909 he was elected a justice of the peace, an office for which he is 
particularly well qualified.  In politics he is a Democrat and formerly was 
very active in party affairs and served as the first treasurer of Irvona 
borough.
    'Squire Green was married in 1895 to Miss Margaret Baer, a daughter of 
David and Mary Baer, of Glen Hope, where Mrs. Green was reared, and they have 
had eight children:  Gwendola C., William Russell, Carmen and Dorothy, twins; 
D. Byron, Charles Leroy, and Harry and J. Elvin, both of whom are deceased.  
The family belongs to the Methodist Episcopal church at Irvona.  Mr. Green is a 
member of Glen Hope Lodge, No. 669, Odd Fellows, and also of the Encampment at 
Glen Hope, Pa.  He is a man of scholarly tastes and during his long period of 
educational work impressed himself forcibly on his pupils and it is not an 
unusual occurrence for him to have personal messages from them from either 
coast, or from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico.