Seneca Green
Seneca Green, farmer, P. O. Kent, was born in Hampshire County, Mass., October 3, 1808; son of Clark and Submit (Hastings) Green, natives of Massachusetts. He was reared on a farm until fourteen years of age, and then served an apprenticeship of six years at the shoe-makers' trade, afterward working in North Lee, Mass., as a journeyman one year; then embarked in business for himself in South Lee, where he was engaged up to 1836. In the fall of the same year he came to Ohio, and in February, 1837, bought the farm where he now resides. There was a plank cabin and a small barn on the place when he purchased it. In 1842 he erected a good barn, and in 1844 built his present residence. Mr. Green has been twice married, his first wife being Sarah Spellman, of Monterey, Mass., to whom he was married October 3, 1832. She died May 6, 1834. February 29, 1836, Mr. Green next married Mary A. Holt, of Austerlitz, N. Y., and the issue of this union was six children: Sarah (Mrs. H. L. Russell); Stephen; Spellman; Ann (Mrs. G. H. Taylor), in Lansing, Mich.; Mary (Mrs. A. A. Ross) in Mount Vernon, Ohio., and George B., residing at home, who was married October 21, 1874, to Clara, daughter of James D. and Mary R. (Olin) Haymaker, of Franklin, and by her he has two children—Mabel A. and James S. Our subject lost his second wife June 6, 1876, in her sixty-fifth year. Mr. Green is one of the representative farmers of Franklin Township. In politics he was formerly a Whig, but has been a stanch Republican since the organization of the party.
From History of Portage County, Ohio, Warner, Beers & Co., Chicago, 1885