Merced County Biographies

HENRY P. GREEN

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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        Public-spirited, enterprising and progressive, Henry P. Green has, for 
the past nineteen years, given substantial aid to the growth and development of 
the city of Gustine, where he has helped to build most of the homes and 
continues to be active in the upbuilding of this section, and also finds time to 
cultivate his home place of two acres within the city limits, where he makes his 
home. His birth occurred in Schuyler County, Mo., May 22, 1883, a son of John 
Henry and Margaret (Kirkland) Green, both natives of the same state. His father 
has spent his entire life in Missouri, where he is engaged in farming. He was 
county treasurer of Schuyler County for a couple of terms. There were ten 
children in this family, nine of whom are now living: Ona; Irvie, resides in 
western Kansas; Myrtle; Henry P., the subject of this review; Cordie; Gracie; 
Buella, deceased; Anna; Nellie; and Velma.
        The education of Henry P. Green was obtained in the grammar schools of 
his native county. He spent twenty-two years of his life at home; then he came 
to California and located at Gustine, where he learned the carpenter's trade and 
for several years has been a building contractor.
        At Gustine, February 27, 1913, Mr. Green was married to Miss Leslie 
Hollingsworth, daughter of J. E. and Lucy J. (Drummond) Hollingsworth, both 
natives of Illinois and both pioneers of the San Joaquin Valley. The maternal 
grandfather of Mrs. Green, J. Q. Drummond, came to California in 1852 and was a 
prominent and respected citizen of Merced County, where he engaged in farming 
near Ingomar. Her father, J. E. Hollingsworth, engaged in farming and dairying 
in Merced County and lived to be sixty-five years old. Her mother, whose sketch 
will also be found in this history, still makes her home at Gustine. Of this 
union there were four children: Ruby; John; an infant deceased; and Leslie, the 
wife of our subject. Two sons have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Green: Leland Henry 
and James Lester. Mr. Green is a stanch Democrat in politics, fra�ternally, he 
belongs to the Odd Fellows Lodge of Gustine and is a past grand of this order; 
with his wife he is a member of the Rebekahs; he also serves as a member of the 
city council of Gustine.
 
History of Merced County, California � Los Angeles, Historic Record Co., 1925
page 897-898