History of North Tama by Daniel Connell HORACE C. GREEN of Jefferson county, New York, came her in 1854, and invested in land for himself, A. Wilbur and Mr. Dusenberry. He opened a farm on section twenty-seven, living on it for a number of years and returned to New York. Mr. Green was one of the active men in the young settlement, exerting himself to the utmost to promote its prosperity by inducing a good class of men to move here, and in this respect was successful. Mr. Green was born in Adam's Centre, New York, in 1818, and bred to a mercantile life. He was active in all public enterprises and a liberal giver. He was a trustee before the division of the town. In the early days he could not well have been spared. Following him came his brothers. JOHN N. GREEN settled on section 2 in Perry and section 35 in Buckingham in 1861, and has remained on it all these days, a quiet, respectable man. He was born in 1820, and has raised a large family of sons and daughters. OLIVER W. GREEN was born in 1824. He settled on section 36, Buckingham, in 1861, and died in 1870. Mrs. Green resides in Illinois. They had but one child, Charles, who married a daughter of William Goben and removed to Nebraska. The home of Mr. and Mrs. Green was noted for generous hospitality and a kind welcome, and always were pleased to meet their friends. Their friends embraced the community. They had no enemies. Few deaths are more sincerely mourned than was the death of Oliver W. Green. LUKE GREEN, the oldest of the family was born in 1815, and came to Buckingham in 1862. He settled on section ?6 on which he continues to reside. Possessed of all the attributes of the Green family, quiet, civil, industrious, kind and generous, and given to hospitality and good works, he has rounded out the allotted three score years and ten, entering on another decade in feeble health and with the respect of the community. EBENEZER AND WILFORD GREEN, brothers, nephews of those mentioned, were young men when they came here, the former in 1861 and the latter in 1862. They engaged at farming in Buckingham on sections 24 and 27. Ebenezer is still engaged in farming. Owing to poor health Wilf was compelled to change. He purchased the Brooks House in Traer, and for several years he has been the landlord of that popular resort of the traveling public. JAY V. B. GREENE was born in Rensseler county, New York, in 1833 and came to Buckingham in 1861. He is a man of liberal education, enterprising and public spirited. He has been from the first a useful citizen. While never in a hurry, never refusing to assume any responsibility requiring time, always seeming to have plenty of time on his hand, it was noticed his work was always done on time. The plowing was done, seed sown, corn plowed, grain gathered, corn cribbed and a large wood pile, always ahead of his neighbors. In this way Mr. Greene has prospered and secured the confidence of his townsmen filling township and school offices of trust. Mr. Greene had two children, a son and a daughter. The son Fred, a young man of much promise, died in 1886. This was a severe blow to his parents. Andrew Green, a brother, has lived with the family here nearly from the first. The family is connected in some way with the other Greens we have understood, yet somewhat remote.