Clay Co., KS AHGP-Portrait and Biographical Album of Washington, Clay and Riley Counties-Chauncey Green
Portrait and Biographical Album of Washington, Clay and Riley Counties Chapman Brothers, Chicago, 1890
CHAUNCEY A. GREEN, of Goshen Township,
came to his present farm in January,
1888, and is numbered among the representative
citizens along the northern line of Clay
County. This farm comprises 160 acres of fertile
land, of which 110 acres are under the plow, and
the balance in pasture and meadow. He purchased
this property in the fall of 1879, when only about
twenty acres had been broken, and at once put up
a part of his present dwelling. Gradually he effected
other improvements, remaining here until in
December, 1883, then removed to Clay Center to
assume the office of Sheriff, to which he had been
elected the previous fall. Prior to this he had
served two terms as Township Trustee, and in the
meantime was elected Sheriff, serving four years.
His re-election was considered a great compliment,
as few men have served in this office in Clay County
more than one term. At the expiration of his second
term Mr. Green returned to his farm, where he
has since lived.
The subject of this sketch was born in New
Berlin, Waukesha Co., Wis., April 3, 1843, and
was reared upon a farm, acquiring his education in
the district school. He was a youth of eighteen
years upon the outbreak of the Civil War, but in
April, 1861, under the first call for 300,000 troops,
he enlisted in Company C, 6th Wisconsin Infantry,
and going to the front, participated in many of the
important battles which followed, namely: the
second battle of Bull Run, South Mountain,
Antietam, Mine Run, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg,
and at the latter place was wounded July 1,
1863, by a gunshot in the right thigh. This disabled
him for about five months, and he then rejoined
his regiment in time to have a band in the
battles of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor,
North Anna, Petersburg, and at Weldon Railroad
was wounded in the right shoulder, Aug. 18,
1864. This disabled him for the same length of
time as before, and as soon as he was able he again
joined his comrades, and after participating in the
Weldon Railroad raid, went down into North
Carolina, fought at Five Forks, marched with his
regiment to Appomattox Court-House, and was
present at Lee's surrender, April 9, 1865. He went
up through the Carolinas to Washington, D. C. taking
part in the grand review, and thence via Jeffersonville,
Ind., returned to Madison, Wis., where
he received his honorable discharge.
Mr. Green now resumed farming and prepared
to establish a home of his own. On the 3d of
October, 1869, he was wedded to Miss Mary,
daughter of Martin and Mary (Dolan) Bergin.
Mrs. Green was born in Grant County, Wis., in
February, 1848. Her parents are now deceased.
The young people sojourned in the Badger State
until 1878, and then coming to Kansas, occupied a
rented farm until the fall of that year, when Mr.
Green bought his present homestead. He effected
good improvements, and pursues the even tenor of
his way without ostentation, being chiefly remarkable
as an honest man and a good citizen. He is a
favorite both in social and business circles, and
belongs to Clay Center Lodge No. 115, I. O. O. F.
He also belongs to Phil Sheridan Post No. 88,
G. A. R.. at Clay Center. To Mr. and Mrs. Green
there have been born four children, namely: Almira
M., John W., Mary E. and Charles B.
The
father of our subject was Eden B. Green, a native
of Vermont, who when a young man emigrated to
New York State, where he married Miss Caroline
E. Knox, who was torn there. Soon afterward
they removed to Waukesha County, Wis., settling
among the earliest pioneers of that region. In
1866, crossing the Father of Waters, they settled
in the vicinity of Iowa City, where they spent
their last days, dying at an advanced age. The
maternal grandparents of Mr. Green were of Scotch-
Irish ancestry.
The parents of Mrs. Green were natives of Ireland,
whence they emigrated to the United States
in their youth, and were married in Wisconsin,
where they spent their last days. Mr. Bergin served
as a soldier in the Mexican War. Both parents
had become members of the Catholic Church
in Ireland, to which church their ancestors for
generations had belonged.