Born in Rutland, Vermont on the 24th of February, 1814, and died in Muscatine of the 10th of November, 1876. He was described in his boyhood as a tall, slender youth, courageous and full of fun. He was seventeen years of age when in the spring of 1831 he left his native city and started with a drove of cattle for Detroit, Michigan. The journey successfully accomplished, he returned to the Green Mountain state and afterward engaged in clerking in a general store in Castleton. But he had felt the fascination of the west and afterward made his way to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he found employment in the general store. On leaving Milwaukee, he made his way to St. Louis, where he found employment in a shoe store, and in 1844 he came to Muscatine, Iowa, with the business interests of which city he was long been identified. He formed a partnership with a Mr. Enders for the conduct of a clothing store. When Mr. Enders withdrew from the business George C. Stone became a partner of Mr. Green under the firm name of Green & Stone, dealers in general merchandise. On the 15th of May 1861, Mr. Green was elected state senator over A. M. Hare, to fill the vacancy caused by the removal of A. O. Patterson, who left the state. He served during the special session of that summer when measures were taken to put Iowa on a war footing. His wife was a native of Buckfield, Maine. She bore the maiden name of Cyrena Bisbee and was a granddaughter of John Bisbee, a soldier of the Revolutionary war and a daughter of Martin and Lucy (Cushman) Bisbee.