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WATSON C. GREEN
WATSON C. GREEN was born July
15, 1851, in Independence County, Arkansas. On account of the civil war, his
parents decided to move to California, and young Green, then nine years old,
was given a goad stick which he used as a persuader for the oxen on the long
and toilsome journey across the plains. The family came direct to San Joaquin
County, and settled on land on the Mokelumne river, a few miles east of Lodi.
For a number of years he worked on his father’s farm, going to the district
school near by whenever he could be spared from the field. He early expressed
an eagerness for an education, but soon found that whatever of advantages in
that line he was to have must be obtained solely through his own exertions. He
worked hard, saved his money and took a four-year course in the University of
the Pacific at San Jose at a cost of over $2,000, every dollar of which he
earned by manual labor. At the conclusion of his collegiate course, he passed a
teacher’s examination and accepted a school in Calaveras County, which he
taught three years. He then turned his attention to the study of law, which he
prosecuted with vigor in the law office of J. B. Hall, of Stockton. In January,
1883, he was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of this State, and
immediately afterward commenced the practice of this profession at Lodi, where
today he has a good and constantly increasing business, and enjoys the
confidence of all who know him. He is man of remarkable energy and push, and is
always among the leaders of of (sic) any new enterprise that is calculated to
promote the best interests of the community in which he lives and of the county
in general.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
An Illustrated History of San Joaquin County,
California, Page 498. Lewis Pub. Co.
Chicago, Illinois 1890.
© 2009 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
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