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Author: History of Will County, Illinois; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.

John GREEN, superintendent of the shoe department at the Illinois State Prison, Joliet; born in 
London, Eng., Dec. 27____; educated at the Clifton boarding school, Northamptonshire; served two 
years as assistant commercial traveler in London and vicinity; in 1844, came to Brooklyn, N. Y., 
and learned the shoe business in all its details; he then visited England, and, upon returning, 
traveled through the Eastern States, and worked in some of the Eastern factories. In 1852, he 
married Miss Margaret Ann GRANGER, of Brooklyn, N. Y., and traveled one year through the Eastern 
States as salesman, returning then to the shoe manufacture as foreman of a fashionable custom 
business, then traveled again three years as salesman, when he again returned to factory life, 
first as cutter, then as foreman and superintendent, in which capacity he is now engaged, and 
has been for the past twenty years. His first wife died in 1870, leaving five children - Albert 
H. (now foreman in the shoe department, who married Miss Allie VANDERHOFF, of Joliet, and has 
one daughter - Carrie H., now Mrs. William HENDERSON, of Brooklyn, N. Y.), Ida E., William and 
John (who died in 1871). In 1872, Mr. G. married Miss Harriet A. BAMIN, daughter of John H. 
BAZIN, Esq., and removed to Joliet in 1874 with his family, excepting Carrie. The factory under 
his direction was the first ever started to make exclusively fine shoes with convict labor. Mr. 
GREEN has been a frequent contributor to the shoe trade journals of the country for many years, 
in 1872, furnishing one hundred and eighty columns, many of the articles being republished in 
the trade journals of England, France and Germany.