Ansel T. Green Biography


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	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	ANSEL T. GREEN has a well-equipped machine shop in the city of 
Aberdeen and is one of the honored and successful business men of Brown 
county. He was born in Jefferson county, Wisconsin, on the 31st of May, 
1851, and is a son of Charles W. and Eunice Green, both of whom were 
born in the state of New York, while they became numbered among the 
pioneers of Wisconsin. The paternal grandfather of our subject removed 
with his family from New York to Wisconsin about 1837, being numbered 
among the very early settlers of the Badger state, where he devoted the 
remainder of his life to agricultural pursuits, which also constituted 
the vocation of the father of our subject. Charles W. Green showed his 
loyalty to the Union at the time of the Civil war, since he enlisted in 
the Twentieth Regiment of Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, with which he 
served until the close of the war, having received his honorable 
discharge in August, 1865. He was an active participant in a number of 
the more notable battles of the great conflict, the first being the 
engagement at Perry Grove, while his regiment was stationed for nearly 
two years at Galveston, Texas, from which point it made numerous trips 
and was in active service, crossing the gulf of Mexico several times and 
being present at the surrender of the city of New Orleans, as well as of 
Vicksburg. After his return to Wisconsin he resumed his trade of 
carpentering and he continued his residence in that state until 1898, 
when he removed to St. Johns, Michigan, where he and his devoted wife 
now maintain their home, having celebrated their golden wedding in 1900. 

	Ansel T. Green passed his boyhood days at Whitewater, Wisconsin, 
and while his father was absent as a soldier he left home and passed 
some time in other sections of the state, in the meanwhile having 
pursued his studies in the common schools. After his father's return he 
went to Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, where he served a three-years 
apprenticeship at the machinist's trade, becoming a skilled artisan in 
that line. During the ensuing three years he was employed at his trade 
at various places in Wisconsin and then located in the city of 
Milwaukee, where he remained three years, at the expiration of which he 
removed to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he maintained his home until 
1883, having in the meanwhile, in 1877, made a trip into what is now the 
state of South Dakota. In 1883 he came once more to this section of the 
Union and took up his abode in Aberdeen, which was then a small frontier 
village, and here assumed the position of foreman in the newly 
constructed round-house of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad, 
retaining this incumbency until 1892. He then resigned the position and 
opened a small machine shop on his own responsibility. His ability in 
his trade had become known and his business has steadily increased in 
scope and importance from the time of its initiation, and he now has a 
well-equipped shop, in which is installed the most improved lathes, 
slotters, planers and other machines, including a corrugating mill roll, 
which is the only one in the state. In 1901 Mr. Green began the 
manufacturing of outfits for the drilling of artesian wells, and this 
department of his enterprise has proved most successful. In the 
connection he has added a foundry to his plant, as well as a pattern 
shop and warehouse, while he has abundant reason to feel satisfied with 
the success which he has attained since starting business on his own 
responsibility, and is thus one of the loyal and public-spirited 
citizens of Aberdeen, one of the most attractive and thriving cities in 
the state. He is a man of marked intellectuality, a reader of good 
literature, and one who keeps in touch with the current affairs of the 
hour. In politics he gives his support to the Republican party, and 
while he has never sought or desired public office, he has consented to 
serve as a member of the board of education of Aberdeen, his interest in 
the cause of education prompting him to this course. He and his wife are 
members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and he is a member of the 
board of trustees of the church of this denomination in Aberdeen. 

	On the 9th of June, 1880, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Green 
to Miss Delphia Conrad, who was born in the state of New Jersey, she 
being a resident of Minneapolis, Minnesota, at the time of her marriage. 
They have four children, Alberta, who is now a successful and popular 
teacher in the public schools at Frederick, Brown county; Mabel, who is 
similarly engaged at Claremont, Brown county; Leo, who is employed in 
his father's establishment; and Paul.