Norvin Green

Birth Date

1818-04-17

Death Date

1893-02-12

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Owen County, Kentucky, farmer and Louisville, Kentucky, telegraph executive. New Albany, Indiana, native. Son of Joseph Green and Susan Ball Green. Married to Martha D. Green. Father of Susan T. Green, James O. Green, Pinckney F. Green, John E. Green, Warren Green, and Grace Green. Moved to Breckinridge County, Kentucky. Moved to Cincinnati, Ohio. Grocer on a flatboat on the Ohio River in 1834. Moved to Carrolton, Kentucky. Owner of a cordwood cutting business in Carrolton. Graduated from the Medical Department of the University of Louisville in Louisville in 1840. Physician of the Western Military Academy in Drennon Springs, Kentucky. Physician in Henry County, Kentucky, in 1850. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Henry County, Kentucky, in 1850 and 1851 to 1853. Commissioner of the United States directing the construction of the U.S. Custom House and U.S. Post Office in Louisville in 1853. Farmer in Owen County in 1860. Owned twelve enslaved persons in Owen County in 1860. A lessee of the United Morse and People's Telegraph between Louisville and New Orleans, Louisiana, from 1854 to 1856. Lessee of the New Orleans and Ohio Telegraph Lessees from 1856 to 1859. President of the South-western Telegraph Company in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henry County, District No. 1, p. 374A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Owen County, District No. 2, p. 116. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Owen County, District No. 2, p. 14. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, 6th Ward, p. 74. James D. Reid, The Telegraph in America and Morse Memorial (New York: John Polhemus Publisher, 1886), 572-577. Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1877), 339. George H. Yater, "Norvin Green" in The Encyclopedia of Louisville, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 357.

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