BENJAMIN GREEN is a native of Yorkshire, England. He was born January 7, 1800, and is the son of JOHN and MARY GREEN, of Church Fenton, Yorkshire, England, who had twelve children, six daughters and six sons, of whom the subject of this sketch is the youngest child. JOHN GREEN died in 1827: his wife also died a few years later. BENJAMIN GREEN sailed for America in 1829, landing at Quebec, Canada, from which place he started for the west, locating in that part of Morgan county now called Scott county, Illinois. He settled in section 15, township 15, range 13, and when the land came into market, purchased the same, where he still continues to live. Mr. GREEN was married to miss ANNA WHITE, a native of Yorkshire, England. They had eight children, four of whom are now living, three daughters and one son, viz:-- JOHN W. GREEN, who now resides near the village of Oxville, Scott county, Illinois; they are all married. MARY is the present wife of EDWARD WOODMAN, who resides near Bluff City; ANN, the wife of WILLIAM CHASSEE; and ELIZABETH, the wife of CHARLES MERRISE, who resides near Decatur, Illinois. His first wife died in 1861, and in 1862 he was married to Mrs. MARGARET MOORE, a native of Baltimore, Indiana, who died November 15, 1872, leaving her husband in the evening of his life. When Mr. GREEN first came to this part of Illinois, it was one vast wilderness, as the prairie had not begun to be tilled to any extent at that early day. But with the energy of early pioneers Mr. GREEN went to work, and has to show at the present time, as the result of his indomitable energy, a fine farm of three hundred and twenty acres of as fine farming land as is to be found in any portion of the state, besides other property which he owns., When we consider his beginning in early life without much property, as compared with the present estates, which is mainly the result of his own efforts, we can form some appreciation of the value of those principles of economy, integrity, and industry, which have marked his career as a business man and farmer. He has been a life-long member of the M. E. Church, with which he identified himself more than fifty years ago, and is a consistent Christian. In early life he was politically identified with the whig party. On the formation of the republican party he quickly became one of its supporters, and has acted with it ever since. Mr. GREEN was a strong friend of ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Upon the breaking out of the rebellion, one of his sons enlisted in company I, 115th regiment, Illinois volunteers, in defence of his country, but, like so many of the brave boys in blue, he had gazed upon the scenes of his youth for the last time, when he went to the battlefields of the south, for the withering hand of death was laid upon him, the spirit passing from the tenement of day at Mitchellsville, Tennessee, in 1862. Mr. GREEN is surrounded with numerous relatives in his old age, there being some twenty-five grandchildren and one great grandchild. Mr. GREEN is one of the many purely self-made men of Scott county, whose public and Christian lives for over forty years are so well known to the present citizens of the county that he needs no eulogy at our hands.