BIO: Edward Augustus GREEN, Huntingdon County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by JO Copyright 2008. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ********************************************************** __________________________________________________________________ Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley: Comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry, Pennsylvania, Containing Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens and Many of the Early Settlers. Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897, pages 314-316. __________________________________________________________________ EDWARD AUGUSTUS GREEN, Mill Creek, Huntingdon county, Pa., was born in Milesburg, Pa., November 20, 1831, son of Joseph and Catherine (Miles) Green. The ancestors of Mr. Green were of Welsh descent, and emigrated from Radnorshire, Wales, in 1682, with William Penn, on his first voyage to America; they settled in and near Philadelphia, Pa. Among the grandchildren born to these colonists from 1735 to 1745 was Samuel Miles, who volunteered in 1755 in Capt. Isaac Wayne's company, at about sixteen years of age. He served during the colonial troubles of Pennsylvania, receiving rapid promotion, until discharged from active service at Presqu' Isle (Erie), as captain, in 1761. At the battle of Long Island, where he commanded a regiment of riflemen, he was taken prisoner. He married Miss Catherine Wister, of Philadelphia. He served in various civil officers, as warden, commissioner, assemblyman, mayor of the city, and presidential elector. While engaged in the mercantile and iron business, Captain Miles purchased extensive tracts of mineral and timber land, and erected, besides his "Slitting- Mills" (iron) at Cheltenham, Centre Furnace Forge and rolling-mill at Milesburg, Centre county; leaving an extensive and valuable estate in charge of his son, Joseph Miles, and his son-in-law, Joseph B. McKean, son of Gov. Thomas McKean. Other grandchildren of the above-mentioned colonist were Joseph Green (1), who married Elizabeth, sister to Col. Samuel Miles; also John Griffiths, who married Esther Wynn, both of the Society of Friends. Joseph Green (2), son of Joseph and Elizabeth, married Hannah, daughter of John and Esther Griffiths, and became engaged, about 1790, at Milesburg Forges, living in Milesburg, where Joseph Green (3) was born, November 30, 1800; he married Catherine, daughter of Joseph Miles, born at Centre Furnace, June 23, 1806, died in 1873. Joseph Green, Jr. (3) was engaged in the iron business, in merchandise, flour milling and manufacturing machinery; he died in Milesburg, May 2, 1880. Their children are: Joseph Miles Green; Edward A. Green; and Francis Potts Green. Having obtained a good English education at the public schools and Bellefonte Academy, Edward Augustus Green completed his classical studies at (Bucknell) Lewisburg University, and at Princeton College; after which he taught two years as principal of the Milesburg public schools, and then engaged in surveying and civil engineering in Minnesota during 1856 and 1857. He took charge of the furnace properties of Irvin Green & Co., at Mill Creek, Huntingdon county, in 1858, and engaged in mercantile business in Huntingdon and Centre counties; and from 1863 to 1869, having purchased the Mill Creek furnace property, engaged in the manufacture of iron, and has since resided there. Mr. Green was elected deputy surveyor of Centre county, which was at the time strongly Democratic, by several hundred majority over his Democratic competitor. He has served several terms as auditor and school director of his district. During the war of the Rebellion, he was commissioned for three years as a captain in Company C, Twelfth Pennsylvania Militia, and was called into service during the invasion of Maryland by Lee's army. Edward Augustus Green was married at Nashville, Tenn., to Eliza N., daughter of John Houghton, Esq., and Mary (Martin) Houghton, of Lewisburg, Pa. Edward A. and Eliza (Houghton) Green had two sons: Edward Houghton Green, M.D.; and John Houghton, who died in 1888, aged nineteen. Eliza Nevius Houghton, wife of Edward A. Green, and daughter of John Houghton, Esq., of Lewisburg, Pa., was born in Lewisburg, and educated at the University Female Institute, now Bucknell Institute. During the civil war, Miss Houghton, with a number of her classmates, volunteered their services to the United States Sanitary Commission, to care for sick and wounded soldiers. They were accepted and commissioned by the Government; were ordered to the Department of the Cumberland, to report for duty in the United States hospitals at Nashville, Tenn., where Miss Houghton remained, caring for sick and wounded soldiers (several months of the time in a smallpox hospital) until the close of the war. Miss Houghton was also a successful and prominent teacher in the City Normal Schools of Nashville, previous to her marriage, and declined the position tendered her, of Lady Principal of Fisk University, now Vanderbilt University, at Nashville. Mrs. Green's ancestors emigrated to America from England and France before the Revolution, and took an active part in the struggles of the colonies for independence. Her father, John Houghton, was a lineal descendant of Col. Jacob Houghton, of the New Jersey Line; her mother, Mary (Martin) Houghton, was the only daughter of John Martin, Esq., of Lewisburg, Pa., a prominent citizen, and a grandson of Colonel Martin, of Long Island. Edward Houghton Green, M.D., elder son of Edward A. and Eliza Houghton Green, was educated at Huntingdon Normal College and at Bucknell University. He entered Jefferson Medical College in 1891, and was graduated with the class of '94. Immediately after his graduation, Dr. Green was appointed assistant surgeon in the Jefferson Medical Hospital, and in the same year received the appointment of assistant demonstrator in Jefferson Medical College, a circumstance which proves the esteem in which he is held by his Alma Mater. Dr. Green is now a very successful practitioner in Philadelphia, having received an appointment as city physician. He has also filled a special appointment at the United States Marine Hospital, Delaware Breakwater.