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Nehemiah Green letter (transcript) ; postal card

Creator: Green, Nehemiah, 1837-1890

Date: 1889-1906

Level of Description: Coll./Record Group

Material Type: Manuscripts

Call Number: Misc.: Green, N

Unit ID: 41777

Restrictions: None.

Biographical sketch: Retired Methodist Episcopal minister, former Kansas lieutenant governor (1867-68, Republican) & governor (Nov. 1868-Jan. 1869); of Manhattan, Kan.

Abstract: Typescript of a letter from Nehemiah Green, 1889 Mar. 6, to the presiding bishop and members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Kansas Annual Conference, Lawrence, March 1889, sending greetings to fellow ministers & giving thoughts upon approaching the end of his life and a postal card, 1906 Jan. 10, from Elizabeth H. Purcell, Manhattan, Kan., to George W. Martin, Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka, with information about Nehemiah Green's wives and children.

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Title (Main title): Nehemiah Green letter (transcript) ; postal card

Titles (Other):

  • Letter (transcript) ; postal card [Portion of title]
  • Nehemiah Green letter ; postal card
  • Governor Green
  • Postal card [Portion of title]
  • Green, Nehemiah [Folder title]

Language note: Text is in English.

Biography

Biog. Sketch (Full): Nehemiah Green was born in Grassy Point Township, Hardin County, Ohio, on 8 March 1837. He was the son of Shepard Green and Mary A. Fisher Green; his family also consisted of four brothers and four sisters. He was educated at a subscription school in Logan County, Ohio, and at Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio. He served in the Union Army from 1861 until 1864 during the Civil War as a private and later first lieutenant. He was also a sergeant major in the Ohio National Guard. Green first arrived in the Kansas Territory in 1855 with several of his brothers to claim property near Baldwin City for a small business venture. He decided to return to Ohio in 1857 to join the Methodist ministry and later was sent to Manhattan, Kansas, as minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church there. In 1866, the Republican Party convention nominated Green for lieutenant governor under Governor S. J. Crawford, and both were elected. After Crawford resigned the governorship to command the 19th Kansas Cavalry, Green was a caretaker governor for the final sixty-nine days of Crawford’s term, during which period the Legislature was not in session. Consequently there was relatively little State business for Green to administer. After his short gubernatorial stint, Green became presiding elder (district superintendent) of the Methodist Episcopal Church for the Manhattan District. He served as a regent of and taught military drill tactics at Kansas State Agricultural College, now Kansas State University, in Manhattan in 1873. He was elected to the Kansas House of Representatives in 1880 and served as speaker pro-tem until 1882. The town of Green in Clay County was named after him, and he provided the bell for the first church built there. He was married twice with five children and died on 12 January 1890 of a long illness incurred while serving in the Army. He is buried at Sunset Cemetery in Manhattan.

Scope and Content

Contents: Governor Green : typescript, [Lawrence, Kan.?] 1889 Mar. 6 -- Elizabeth H. Purcell. Postal card : Manhattan, Kan., to George W. Martin, Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka, Kan., 1906 Jan. 10.

Locators:

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Related Records or Collections

Other Finding Aid/Index: Finding aid available in the repository and on its web site, http://www.kshs.org/p/nehemiah-green-letter-postal-card-1889-1906/14031

Related materials: Kansas Governor Nehemiah Green letters sent, Nov. 1868-Jan. 1869, located in State archives holdings, Kansas State Historical Society (Topeka); finding aid at http://www.kshs.org/p/governors-records-nehemiah-green-administration-nov-4-1868-jan-11-1869/13838

Index Terms

Subjects

    Methodist Episcopal Church. Kansas Conference (34th : 1889 : Lawrence, Kan.)
    Methodist Episcopal Church -- Kansas -- Clergy -- Biography
    Methodist Episcopal Church. Kansas Conference
    Postcards -- Kansas
    Manhattan (Kan.)
    Green, Nehemiah, 1837-1890
    Martin, George W. (George Washington), 1841-1914
    Purcell, Elizabeth H.
    Retired clergy -- Kansas -- Manhattan

Creators and Contributors


Additional Information for Researchers

Restrictions: None.

Use and reproduction: Information on literary rights available in the repository.

Action note: Biograpnical sketch written by David F. Manning, volunteer, 2006.

Holder of originals: Kansas State Historical Society (Topeka)