Background
Green, Marcellus was born on August 12, 1851 in Jackson, Mississippi, United States. Son of Joshua and Elizabeth (Jarvis) Green.
Green, Marcellus was born on August 12, 1851 in Jackson, Mississippi, United States. Son of Joshua and Elizabeth (Jarvis) Green.
Educated Soule’s Commercial College, 1868, University of Virginia, 1872.
Admitted to bar Supreme Court of Mississippi, 1874, Supreme Court of the United States, 1886. Secretary to Governor J. M. Stone, 1876. Vice president Jackson Fertilizer Company Commissioner from Mississippi to Centennial of promulgation of Constitution at Philadelphia, 1889.
President commission to build Colored Insane Annex to Insane Asylum, Jackson, Mississippi, 1890.
President commission to rebuild Hospital for Insane, Jackson, after fire, 1892. Trustee Eastern State Hospital for Insane, 1884-1894, State Blind Asylum, 1882-1884.
Member Standing Committee Diocese of Mississippi. Member Committee Revision Federal Equity Rules from 5th United States Circuit. Fellow Royal Society Arts (London).
Member Mississippi Bar Association, American Bar Association (Vice-President for Mississippi), National Economics League, et cetera
Trustee Jackson Public Schools (president 1893-1896). Member Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, Southern.
Club: Rotary (honorary.
Married Lucy Edelin Garner, April. Children: Garner Wynn, Lulah Edelin (Mistress G. West. F. Rembert), Gertrude Elizabeth (Mistress O. M. Turner), Elise Langdon (Mistress Edwin L. Herring), Marcellus (deceased), Lewis Jarvis (deceased), Ada (Mistress Alfred Harden Coon.