Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, Kniffin 1st ed., 1885
Reprinted 1972 by Kentucky Reprint Co., Murray, KY.
Graves Co.

Dr. GREEN L. POPLIN was born December 19, 1815, in Montgomery County, 
N.C., and reared in Bedford County, Tenn.  He commenced the study of
medicine at the age of seventeen, and graduated at the Louisville
Medical Institute, March 5, 1842.  He continued to practice his 
profession eighteen years from the same office in which he studied.
In 1853 he came to Graves County and practiced his profession here five
years; he then moved to Bloomfield, Stoddard Co., Mo., in the winter of
1858, and continued to practice his profession until the breaking out 
of the war.  In the fall of 1867 the doctor moved to Poplar Bluff, Mo.,
and opened a drug store and also practiced his profession until 1877,
when he left that place for Mayfield, Ky., where he now resides.
During his stay at the Bluffs he entered heart and soul into every
public enterprise, and assisted with all his energy in the organization
of the Poplar Bluff Immigration Society; was elected its president and
continued to act in that position as long as it lasted.  He also
assisted in establishing and building the Black River Seminary, of 
which he was elected president.  In connection with Dr. G.T. Bartlett,
the doctor founded a newspaper at that place, called the Black River
News, and continued editor and proprietor for five years.  He served
two years as one of the judges of the county court, during which time
the great railroad contract was made; he acted as chairman of the 
court, and this contract was the means of laying the chief corner-stone
of the present and prospective greatness of Poplar Bluff.  In 1866 he
was elected to the legislature from Stoddard County, Mo., and served
two years.  The doctor has been married three times; his last union
was October 16, 1873, with Mattie E. Hall, of Ripley County, Mo.,
by whom he has one son.  He has three children by his former marriages.

Poplin Bartlett Hall
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Montgomery-NC Bedford-TN Bloomfield-Stoddard-MO Ripley-MO

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