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Green, Horton Buxton

educator, clergyman, composer, was born Oct. 29, 1852, in Johnstown, Ohio. In 1853 he moved with his parents to Carroll county, Ill. He received the rudiments of his education in the common schools, and attended the Northern college of Fulton, and subsequently the Cumnock School of Oratory of Evanston, Ill. For a while he was engaged in educational work, and since 1885 has been a clergyman of the methodist episcopal church. He has filled pastorates in the Northwest Iowa conference in Ashton, Inwood, Rock Valley and Sutherland.

He is the author of a number of sacred and popular songs, both of the words and music, which have appeared in sheetform and in several standard collections.