Background
Norvin Green was born on April 17, 1818 in New Albany, Indiana, but removed in early youth to Breckenridge County, Kentucky. His parents, Joseph and Susan (Ball) Green, were of Virginia ancestry.
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Norvin Green was born on April 17, 1818 in New Albany, Indiana, but removed in early youth to Breckenridge County, Kentucky. His parents, Joseph and Susan (Ball) Green, were of Virginia ancestry.
Green attended the country schools and worked on his father’s farm until his father’s bankruptcy forced him to make a living for himself. At the age of sixteen he opened a grocery store on a flatboat and traveled down the Ohio and Mississippi selling supplies to the lumbermen on the banks. Later he secured employment as a wood-cutter and by this work earned the money for a medical education. He first studied with Dr. Mason of Carrollton, Kentucky, and later entered the Medical College of the University of Louisville, where he graduated in 1840.
In 1840 he entered upon the practise of medicine in Henry County. His practise was interrupted by two terms in the Kentucky House of Representatives, 1850 and 1851-53. The records are too meager for a judgment of his ability as a physician or legislator, but in neither capacity did he achieve any great distinction. He was always known as “Doctor” Green even after he abandoned medicine, and his political preferment shows that he enjoyed the confidence of his neighbors. He was a presidential elector on the Pierce ticket in 1852 and the next year was appointed one of the commissioners for locating the new Federal Building at Louisville.
The year 1853 also marks the time when Green definitely turned his back on medicine and politics and engaged in the business career which was to bring him his reputation. In this year the two rival telegraph lines from Louisville to New Orleans - the People’s, and the New Orleans & Ohio - were consolidated after a period of ruinous competition, and the consolidated lines were shortly leased for operation to a number of men, of whom Green was one.
Previous to this he had been an active member of the New Orleans & Ohio Company. After a period of failing business the Louisville-New Orleans lines were reorganized as the Southwestern Telegraph Company with Green as president. Under his management the Southwestern Company became prosperous, but Green had wider ambitions.
In 1857 he took the first steps toward realizing his ambition by initiating the consolidation of the six leading telegraph lines in the United States. This resulted in the formation of the North American Telegraph Company. In 1866 the process was completed by the formation of the Western Union, embracing all the lines in the United States. Green served as vicepresident of it until 1878, when he became the president and continued in that capacity' until his death. With the beginning of his telegraph interests Green moved to Louisville and maintained his home there until his death, although for the last thirty years of his life he spent most of his time in New York.
From 1870 to 1873 he was president of the Louisville, Cincinnati, & Lexington Railway. To the November 1883 number of the North American Review he contributed an article on “The Government and the Telegraph. ”
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In 1840 he married Martha English of Carrollton.