Dr. G. G. Green

Dr. G. F. Green G. F. Green, M.D., was born in Wilkinson County, Ga., in the year 1846. He comes remotely of a North Carolina family. His grandfather Jesse J. Green, immigrated to Georgia when a lad in his teens, coming in company with an uncle Henry Culpepper, from the old Palmetto State. He located on the frontier along the Oconee river, and in time grew to be a wealthy planter and a very respectable citizen. His son, Eason Green, was the father of the subject of this sketch. He was born in Laurens county an passed his life there as a planter, attaining a respectable standing among his fellow citizens, proving fairly successful in agriculture, to which he devoted his life, and dying in 1878 in the seventy-fourth year of his age. His wife, mother of G.F. Green, was a daughter of Jesse Weaver, one of the pioneer settlers of Laurens County, a planter of some means and a good representative citizen of his county. There were thirteen children in the family to which Dr. Green belongs, all of whom reached maturity. Nine of them were boys and most of them have become planters' some, however, selecting the professions and other callings. The family furnished six volunteers to the Confederate army, three of who died in service. Dr. Green was reared in Wilkinson County an educated there and at the Clayton high school at Jonesborough. He read medicine under Dr. T. A. Simmons of Irwinton, and graduated from the University of Maryland, at Baltimore, in 1871, and settled to the practice in Wilkerson County. After eight years of successful practice in that county he moved in 1883 to Laurens County where has since made his home. He has been engaged mainly at his profession since his entering the practice, varying his professional duties with farming interests at various times. He stands well as a citizen and ranks well in his profession.

Source: Ancestry.com. Georgia and Florida Biographies [database online]. Provo, UT: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2003. Original data: Biographical Souvenir of the States of Georgia and Florida. Chicago, IL: F.A. Battey & Company, 1889.