Amos Green, his grandfather, was born in Berlin. New Hampshire, and made the voyage around Cape Horn to California in 1849. There he engaged in mining with such success that in 1851 he returned to his home in the east and brought his family to California the following year. George A. Green, the father of Mr. Green, was one of the party. They settled at Oroville, and there the grandfather continued his mining operations. The other son of the household was Everett A. Green, now a resident of Tonapah. In his later life the grandfather resided with his son, George A., at Sweetwater, and there died in 1900 at the advanced age of eighty-three years. He was one of California's brave pioneers, widely and favorably known, and he took an active part in the early development of the state.

George A. Green is now the owner of the Nine Mile Ranch at Fletcher, Nevada, where he has been located for a number of years. He is a prominent stock-raiser and miner, owning several good mining properties and his meadows have been covered with tailings from the mines. To this he strongly objected at the time they were placed there, but he is now putting these tailings through a cyanide process and is getting gold from them in paying quantities. George A. Green was born in New Hampshire in 1831, and had attained his majority when he arrived in California. He is self-educated and a man of natural talents who keeps thoroughly well informed on all questions of the day. Throughout the years of his residence in Nevada he has been the prominent factor in the affairs of his county and state and ever loyal in his support of what he has believed to be for the best interests of the commonwealth. His political allegiance is given to the Republican part, and he is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In the early history of Esmeralda county he served as one of the county commissioners. He now owns twelve hundred and forty acres of agricultural land and twenty-five hundred acres of natural grazing land, and upon the latter he has a large herd of cattle. He married Miss Sarah White of Fulton, Missouri, who crossed the plains in the year of the Mountain Meadow massacre. In the paternal line she comes of German ancestry, although the family was established in America at an early day. In religious faith Mrs. Green is a Methodist and has lived a consistent Christian life. By her marriage she has become the mother of six children, three sons and three daughters, all of whom are yet living and are respected residents of Nevada.

George Sumner Green, the third child, was educated in the public schools of this state and also spent two years as a student in Stanford University of California. Thus with a good literary knowledge to serve as a foundation upon which to rear the superstructure of professional learning, he took up the study of law in the office and under the direction of the Hon. C. A. Reynolds, then in the Crocker building in San Francisco, and was admitted to practice by the supreme court of the state of California on the 27th of April, 1896. He then returned to his home in Nevada, opened a law office, and in the same year was elected district attorney of Esmeralda county. To this position he has been continually chosen at each succeeding election so that he is now serving for his fourth term. In addition to the duties of this office he engages in the general practice of law and has been most fortunate in his trial of cases. At the time when he was first elected to the office he received a majority of sixty, at the next election had a majority of sixty-four, at the third of sixty-six and at the fourth of fifty-seven, being elected over two candidates who were men of marked ability, all of which goes to show how popular is this native son of Nevada with his fellow citizens.

Mr. Green was married on the 10th of June, 1903, to Miss E. Nevada Marks, a native daughter of Virginia City. She is a graduate of the Nevada State University, and for three years prior to her marriage was the principal of the Hawthorne schools, her capability in that direction ranking her with the best educators of the state. Mr. and Mrs. Green now have a nice home in Hawthorne and enjoy the warm regard of many friends, occupying a leading position in social circles, where true worth and intelligence are received as the passports into good society.

Source:
A History of the State of Nevada: Its Resources and People
By Thomas Wren, Lewis Publishing Company
Published by The Lewis publishing company, 1904