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WILLIAM ELBERT GREEN
Vol. 5, p. 1819

Superintendent of the city schools of Noble, Mr. GREEN is an
Oklahoma school man of considerable experience and holds a life
teacher's certificate in this state. At Noble he has under his
supervision a corps of six teachers, 250 enrolled scholars, and a
modern $10,000 school house thoroughly equipped. He took charge of
these schools in the fall of 1915.

He was born at Senatobia, Mississippi, July 6, 1893. His ancestors
were Scotch-Irish who came to North Carolina in the early days, and
there has since been a small admixture of Indian stock. Thomas Walter
Green, his father, was born in Senatobia, Mississippi in 1866, and
has spent his active career as a farmer and stock man. He came to
Oklahoma and located in the vicinity of Clanmore (sic) a number of
years ago, but after a time returned to Mississippi, and located
permanently in Chandler in 1907, and still resides there. He owns 240
acres, and does diversified farming and raises blooded stock. He has
held various township offices, being prominent in local affairs in
his locality. He is a democrat and has been a member of the official
board of the Christian Church, and affiliates with the Modern Woodmen
of America, the Woodmen of the World and the Knights of Pythias.
Thomas W. Green married Sallie Eva HANCOCK, who was born in
Independence, Mississippi in 1871. Their children are: William E.;
Mary Elizabeth, wife of Walter E. WARD, a farmer, stockman and grain
dealer at Westboro, Missouri; Mattie Pearl, who graduated from the
Chandler High School and was a student in the state normal at Edmond
and is now a teacher in Chandler; Marvin Presley, a graduate of the
Chandler High High School and a teacher in Okfuskee County; Lottie
Lucile, a junior in the Chandler High School; and Dollie Eula, a
sophomore in the high school.

William Elbert Green attended the public schools of Independence,
Mississippi, the state normal college at Sherman, Mississippi, and
the University of Tennessee. He graduated from the high school at
Claremore, Oklahoma, in 1912, and 1913 completed the course of the
Edmond State Normal School and was granted a life teacher's
certificate. During 1914, he attended the State University at Norman
and has take courses during the summer time at the university for
three years past. The school year of 1914-15 he served as principal
in one of the public schools at Ardmore, and he previously served as
assistant superintendent of schools of Okfuskee County.

Mr. Green is a democrat, is a member of the Christian Church, and is
affiliated with Chandler Lodge No. 19, Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, and with the Modern Woodmen of America. He is unmarried.

Typed for OKGenWeb by: Geraldine Olson KING, July 19, 1999

SOURCE: Thoburn, Joseph B., A Standard History of Oklahoma, An
Authentic Narrative of its Development, 5 v. (Chicago, New York: The
American Historical Society, 1916).