San Joaquin County Biographies
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ROBERT FRANKLIN GREEN
A venerable pioneer of San Joaquin County is found in Robert Franklin Green, who has been a continuous resident of the county for fifty-nine years, his father having settled on the ranch where our subject now resides. He was born in Allen County, Kan., on August 9, 1861, a son of Jasper W. and Sarah E. (Carlisle) Green, born respectively in Alabama and Missouri. Grandfather Jesse Green was a Methodist minister. In 1860, with his wife and some of his children, he crossed the plains to California and located on a farm three and one-half miles northeast of what is now Lodi. On a part of this ranch the town of Victor is now located. Rev. Jesse Green was a pioneer minister in the San Joaquin Valley, who with true religious zeal did much to establish early churches and raise the standard of morals in those early days. He passed away at the age of eighty-four years. Jasper W. Green removed from Alabama to Arkansas and engaged in the mercantile business. The war coming on, his business was ruined and he moved to Kansas, where he carried on farming. In 1864 he brought his family to California, making the journey across the plains in a prairie schooner drawn by oxen, and taking six months on the way to a day. On arriving at his father Jesse Green's place in San Joaquin County, he purchased 160 acres near by and engaged in grain farming until the time of his death in 1887 aged fifty-seven years. The mother survived until she was sixty-two years old. They were the parents of four children: Mrs. Mary Snyder, of Oakland; Robert Franklin, the subject of this review; Newton, deceased; and Mrs. Lochie Ellis, of Lodi.
Frank Green, as he is familiarly called by his many friends, made the overland journey with his parents when he was in his third year, so that his first recollections are of San Joaquin County. Here he was reared on the farm, enjoying the great out-of-doors, and thus grew to be a very large and athletic man; and he still retains the vigor and strength with which nature so liberally endowed him. He received a good education at the Alpine school, and at the same time made himself useful as his father's right-hand man. After his father's death he continued to run the home place, and in addition purchased 400 acres near by, which afterward became known as the Green Colony, and which he later subdivided and sold in small acreages. Mr. Green received fifty acres as his share of his father's estate, of which he planted thirty-five acres in vineyard and fifteen acres in alfalfa. His irrigating system consists of a five-inch pump driven by a fifteen-horsepower motor.
During his long residence in San Joaquin County Mr. Green has become widely known, and his many excellent traits of character have gained him the friendship and warm regard of many with whom he has come in contact. In national politics he is a Republican, and fraternally he is a member of the Lodi Lodge of Odd Fellows, of which he is a Past Grand and has been a delegate to the Grand Lodge. He is also a member of the Harmony Encampment of Odd Fellows; of Ridgely Canton, Stockton; and of Lodi Rebekah Lodge. He is interested in the growth and development of this county and is an original stockholder in the National Products' Association of Lodi.
During Mr. Green's long residence in the county he has witnessed the marvelous growth and development of not only the Victor section but all of the county. Though very young in years when arriving in the county he remembers helping his father clear the land of brush and heavy timber; and when he reached young manhood he took advantage of the natural resources the section afforded and has met with gratifying success.
History of
SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
With A
Biographical Review
of
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been
Identified with Its Growth and Development
from the Early Days to the Present
HISTORY BY
George H. Tinkham
HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
1923
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