BIO: Innis GREEN, Dauphin County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, 
Containing Sketches of Representative Citizens, and Many of the 
Early Scotch-Irish and German Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: 
J. M. Runk & Company, 1896, page 201.
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  GREEN, INNIS, the eldest son of Col. Timothy Green and Mary Innis, 
was born in Hanover township, Dauphin county, Pa., March 25, 1776.  His 
early years were spent on his father's farm, bur he received a 
tolerable fair English education, an essential in the Scotch-Irish 
settlements.  His father, who built a mill at the mouth of Stony creek 
about 1790, dying in 1812, Innis took charge of it.  He was appointed 
one of the associate judges of Dauphin county by Governor Findlay, 
August 10, 1818, resigning October 23, 1827, having been elected to the 
National House of Representatives.  He served during the Twentieth and 
Twenty-first Congresses.  Governor Wolf, January 26, 1832, re-appointed 
him associate judge, a position he held at the time of his death, which 
occurred on the 4th of August, 1839.  His remains lie interred in the 
cemetery at Dauphin.  Judge Green laid out the town (which for many 
years went by the names of Port Lyon and Greensburg) about the year 
1826.  He married, in 1804, Rebecca Murray, daughter of Col. John 
Murray, of the Revolution.