BIOGRAPHY: John B. GREEN, M.D., Cambria County, PA 

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From Wiley, Samuel T., ed. Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Cambria 
County, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Union Publishing Co., 1896, p. 163-4
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JOHN B. GREEN, M.D., a graduate of the Cincinnati college of Medicine and 
Surgery, and the Rush Medical College of Chicago, and who has been employed in 
the successful practice of his profession for nearly a quarter of a century, is 
a son of Jess and Rebecca (Byers) Green, and was born near Penn's Run, Indiana 
county, Pennsylvania, January 9, 1849. The Greens are of honest and honorable 
German ancestry, and Jess Green was a son of Samuel Green, an Indiana county 
farmer in good circumstances, who lived near the county seat, and reared a 
family of four sons and three daughters.
     Jess Green was born in 1827 in Indiana county, where he died December 1st, 
1884, while on a visit. He was a farmer and huckster, and early in life removed 
to Morrison's Cove, in Blair county, where he was residing at the time of his 
death. He was twice married. His first wife was Rebecca Byers, whose father, 
John Byers, was an Indiana county farmer, who removed late in life to Ohio, 
where he lived to the remarkable old age of one hundred and four years. After 
the death of his first wife, 1870, at forty-three years of age, Mr. Green wedded 
Elizabeth Howard, of Washington city, who survived him. All of his children, six 
in number, were by his first marriage, and were: Dr. John B., Nancy, deceased; 
Emanuel, of Johnstown; Lincoln, in Pittsburg, and Mary, of St. Louis, Missouri.
     John B. Green received his education in the early common schools of 
Pennsylvania, and when he attained his majority left his father's farm to learn 
the trade of a carpenter with John Geesey, of Altoona. He served his 
apprenticeship of three years, and then worked one year as a journeyman. At the 
end of that time, in the autumn of 1873, he came to Chest Springs, this county, 
where he did some contracting in his mechanical line of work, and commenced 
reading medicine with Dr. W. H. Sloan of that place. A year later he took a 
first course of lectures at the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery, and 
returned to Chest Springs, where he practiced under his preceptor until July 1, 
1875, when he went to Indiana county, and worked for a few weeks at his trade. 
Hen then returned to his medical college, and was graduated in the class of 
1876. After graduation he formed a partnership with his preceptor, which lasted 
until August 1, 1876, when he located at Dixonville, Indiana county, and 
practiced there up to February, 1883, in which month he removed to Carrolltown, 
where he was a resident for two years and nine months. At the end of that time 
he disposed of his practice to Dr. G. H. Sloan, a son of his preceptor, and in 
December, 1885, came to Summer Hill, where he has been in active practice up to 
the present time.
     On the 5th of October, 1874, Dr. John B. Green married Matilda Goss, a 
daughter of George Goss, of Hillsdale, Indiana county. To this Union have been 
born four children, one son and three daughters: Fannie A., who died March 29, 
1887, aged thirteen years; Stella A., died June 2, 1890, aged twelve years, 
three months; Charles B., and Golda Adalina.
     Dr. Green's professional labors and business duties preclude any active 
interest on his part in politics. He is a democrat politically. He is a member 
of Cambria Lodge, No. 278 Free and Accepted Masons, of Johnstown, and has always 
contributed liberally to the Lutheran church. Dr. Green has always taken a deep 
interest in the struggle of working classes to secure homes, and to provide all 
classes with safe investment, and is now vice-president of the Pennsylvania 
Building and Loan Association of Altoona, Blair county, which was chartered 
February 26, 1892, and now has a subscribed capital of nearly $800,000, and 
mortgage loans approximating $200,000. He is an active member of the board of 
directors, which, by a conservative and careful course, have thrown additional 
safeguards around the management and funds of this popular business institution. 
Dr. Green and F. Linderman manufacture the famous Linderman piano polish, now 
coming into general demand. While ever active in business, yet Dr. Green does 
not neglect his patients, or his profession. He took the post-graduate course of 
the Rush Medical college, of Chicago, graduating April 19, 1884, and has kept 
abreast of every advancement in medicine during this progressive age. His 
practice,   which is general rather than special, is both extended and 
successful.