Since that time he has been mainly engaged in looking after his private affairs and enjoying the ease and rest which is grateful after a long life of business activity. McGee sold their interests in the business in March, 1902, to Beardslee, Herron & Beattie. Horton, taking in as partner John McGee, who died December 11, 1902. Upon his return, in 1897, he bought the business again from Mr. He then made a trip to Texas, and remained some seven or eight years in the South, but never gave up his home in Pontiac. Green was a very successful business man, paying close attention to the needs of the trade, buying all his own stock and adopting methods which met with general approval. Green then left Farmington township, removing to Pontiac in February, 1867, and on April 12, 1867, opened up a mercantile business, in which he continued in this city for almost 22 years, and became almost a landmark, located so long at No. During the next year he purchased a stock of goods and continued to teach, hiring assistants for the store, continuing in the mercantile business four and a half years, finally selling out to O. Warner in August, 1860, and in September accepted the position of teacher of the Farmington school, which he taught during the following year. Hazard, he embarked in a mercantile business at Farmington, then quite a village, and continued with that gentleman three years, three months and 10 days. green was employed in Farmington township, but on May 20, 1857, in partnership with O. In the agricultural regions, the summers are generally devoted to the necessary work on the farms, but the winter seasons find the youth of both sexes eager for instruction. He made his home for a time with an uncle and attended the winter schools, becoming in this way competent to engage in teaching by the time he was 19, and this occupation he followed at various times for many years.
Green was but 10 years of age when he summoned up the courage to strike out for himself. In politics he was a stanch Whig, and was a fine type of the sturdy, hardy pioneer of the early settlement of this locality, a man strong of frame, of rigid morality and upright in all his dealings. Green made his home and engaged in farming until his death December 9, 1836. Green and wife did not locate until the following May. In 1823 Wardwell Green made his first trip to Oakland County, Michigan, where he took up a tract of 160 acres of land, and was the third resident of Farmington township, being preceded by Arthur Power and George Collins, the former settling in February, 1824, while Mr.
Paul Railway Company, and died in 1895 at Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Benedict, and resides at Aurora, Illinois and Seneca M., born February 3, 1836, who for 35 years was a passenger conductor with the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Kittridge, who died in 1902 Wardwell, born February 2, 1826, who was a farmer in Hillsdale County, Michigan, where he died NovemSidney, born July 25, 1827, who is a retired farmer, living at Mystic, Iowa Jarvis J., of this sketch Betsey, born September 28, 1830, who is the widow of Walter Kittridge, and resides in Milwaukee, Wisconsin Cynthia Maria, born August 21, 1832, who died unmarried, March 15, 1857, at Waukesha, Wisconsin Helen P., born April 11, 1834, who married E. The second marriage of Wardwell Green was to Polly Peabody, who died February 27, 1886, the mother of these children: A babe born September 19, 1821, who died in infancy Lucinda, born August 10, 1822, who married the late Gardurous Webster, and resides at Farmington, Oakland County Emily, born January 17, 1824, deceased in July, 1900, who married William E. Wardwell Green was married to his first wife in New York, where she died, leaving two children,-Cynthia Ann, who was born September 30, 1817, and died in advanced age at Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Leland, who was born August 20, 1819, and died in Missouri. The Green family is an old one in Orleans County, New York, and there Wardwell Green was born, August 30, 1793, a son of James Green, who had a family of 13 children, namely: Polly, Lucinda, Naomi, Hopie, a daughter whose name is not given, Wardwell, Daniel, Champlin, Ray, Calvin, Chauncey, Horace and Luther, all of whom are deceased except Chauncey, who resides in Pontiac, aged about 88 years, and who for a long period was one of the ushers at the Eastern Michigan Asylum. GREEN, a highly respected citizen of Pontiac, now living somewhat retired, after having been actively engaged in business in this city for some 30 years, was born on a farm in Farmington township, Oakland County, one and a half miles from Farmington, March 13, 1829, and is a son of Wardwell and Polly (Peabody) Green.