From an unidentified book of Rush Co., Indiana biographies. LOWELL McKee GREEN, physician and surgeon at Rushville, was born in a house on Main Street in that city, April 15, 1882. He was liberally educated, earning most of his expenses while in medical college, and after graduating returned to his native city, where for twenty-five years he has been engaged in practice and has measured up to the relationships of a very useful and public spirited citizens. Doctor Greens parents were Thomas McKee and Anna D. (Foxworthy) Green, the former a native of Milroy, Indiana, and the latter of Center Township, Rush County. The paternal grandparents were Samuel and Elizabeth (McKee) Green, Samuel being a son of Lot Green, one of the earliest settlers of Rush County. The maternal grandparents of Doctor Green were James and Cynthia (Barrett) Foxworthy, the former a native of Kentucky and the latter of Indiana. Doctor Green's grandfathers were Indiana farmers. His father was an attorney, was a member of the Legislature and served as county clerk. He died February 2, 1924, and his wife passed away March 9, 1929. Doctor Green after graduating from high school entered Indiana University, spending two years in the academic department, and then four years in the Indiana Medical College at Indianapolis. He graduated in 1906 with the M. D. degree. While in medical school he conducted a drug store and for a time after graduating remained in Indianapolis, engaged in practice. In the fall of 1907 he returned to Rushville. His work has been that of a general medical practitioner, specializing in surgery. Doctor Green married, September 15, 1910, at Saint Louis, Missouri, Miss Maud B. Fargo, who was born in Pennsylvania, but at the time of her marriage was a resident of Portland, Oregon. She is a daughter of Lew and Jessie B. (McKahan) Fargo. They have two children, Tom McKahan, a student in Wabash College, in premedical work, and Lowell McKee, a student in Rushville High School. Doctor Green is a trustee of the United Presbyterian Church. He was elected four times as coroner of Rush County on the Republican ticket. He is a Beta Theta Pi, a Phi Chi, is affiliated with Lodge No. 62 of the Masonic fraternity, the Royal Arch Chapter, Council degree and Knights Templar Commandery, and is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, Murat Temple. He also belongs to the Knights of Pythias, B. P. 0. Elks and Fraternal Order of Eagles. Doctor Green was honored in 1980 [? not my typo -- DJN] with the office of president of the Rush County Medical Society. He is a member of the Indiana State Medical Society, the American Medical Association, the Sixth District and Union District Medical Societies. His offices are at 127 West Third Street and his residence, 889 East Sixth Street, Rushville. During the World war he organized in July, 1917, the Medical Unit of Rushville attached to the One Hundred and Thirty-ninth Field Artillery, serving as its first lieutenant for about a year. During the latter part of 1918 he was commissioned a captain in the Army Medical Corps, was at Fort Benjamin Harrison, then at Camp Shelby, Mississippi, and on October 6, 1918, sailed for France. For some weeks he was detailed on duty with the Expeditionary Forces and on December 15, 1919, left Brest on the George Washington, the ship that had carried President Wilsons party to Paris. He was discharged with the rank of captain at Fort Benjamin Harrison, January 19, 1919. Captain Green organized the Rush Post of the American Legion and is also a member of Veterans of Foreign Wars.