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|---------Thomas GREEN (1760, Virginia - 1822, Indiana)
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|------Lot GREEN (1799, Tennessee - 1845, Indiana)
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| |---------Elizabeth MATTHEWS (1762 - Indiana)
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John Cooper GREEN (1829, Indiana - 1898)
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|------Anna COOPER (1809, Kentucky - 1841, Indiana)
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The following is from an 1893 biography of John: John C. Greene was reared on his father's farm in Rush County, Indiana, attending the district schools and working on the place until he was twenty-two years of age. He then entered DePauw (then Asbury) University, and was a student in that institution until compelled, nearly four years later, to relinquish his studies on account of failing health. Not long afterward he entered the law office of Davis & Wright, at Shelbyville, Indiana, and read with them until he was admitted to the bar in March 1856, and began the practice of his profession in association with his former preceptors as a member of the firm of Davis, Wright & Greene, a relation which continued most pleasantly and profitably for all concerned for ten years. In October 1886, he came to Indianapolis. He was for about one year thereafter in the service of the United States Government and afterward for nine years a wholesale merchant, first in tobacco, cigars and teas, and later in drugs. But Mr. Greene gave up his mercantile career to return to the practice of his profession, which has since engaged his time and attention. As a lawyer he is noted for the skill with which he prepares his cases, the ability with which he presents them and the force and logic with which he argues them. It is his invariable custom to advise against litigation as long as litigation can be avoided without determent to his client's interests, but when he once takes a case in hand he leaves no stone unturned in the road to victory. He numbers among his clients many of the leading citizens, firms and corporations of Indianapolis and its vicinity, and is specially retained by the Mutual Life Endowment Association. Politically Mr. Greene is a Republican, and while he can quite plainly state his reasons for so being, he is not in the ordinary sense a politician, and he has never sought nor accepted office, preferring to devote himself entirely to his business interests and having really no ambition in the direction of a public life.
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