Green family, of Worcester, Mass.

The principal correspondents of the additional papers of the Green Family of Worcester, Mass., are William Nelson Green (1804-1870) and his sons, William Nelson Green, Jr. (1843-1864) and Timothy Ruggles Green (1844-1932).

William Nelson Green, the son of William Elijah Green (1777-1863) and Abigail Nelson Green ( - ), was a lawyer and judge of the Worcester Police Court during the twenty years of its existence, 1848-1868. He was also a surveyor, an elected member of the school committee of Worcester, Mass. (see Crane ...), ardent huntsman, fisherman, and orchardist. In 1840, he married Sarah Ball Staples ( - ) of Northborough, Mass., a widow with a young daughter, Sarah. They lived on Summer Street until moving to property (presumably the Crawford Farm) which he owned on Green Hill near the Millstone Quarry.

William Nelson Green, Jr. as a young man enlisted in the 25th Massachusetts Regiment. While serving as a second lieutenant in the 102nd New York Regiment, he was taken prisoner at the battle of Cedar Mountain, Va. After his release from Libby Prison, he was commissioned a lieutenant colonel in the 173rd New York Regiment. During the battle of Pleasant Hill in Louisiana on 9 April 1864 he was wounded. He was transported to St. James Hospital in New Orleans, where he died on 13 May 1864.

Timothy Ruggles Green was for a time a bank clerk in New York City, but returned to Worcester, Mass., after 1903. He died, unmarried, in Worcester in 1932.

From the description of Additional papers, 1826-1919. (American Antiquarian Society). WorldCat record id: 191259388