Biography of Monte L. Green, pages 337 / 338.  History of Northeast Indiana; 
LaGrange, Steuben, Noble, and DeKalb Counties, Vol. II, under the editorial 
supervision of Ira Ford, Orville Stevens, William H. McEwen, and William H. 
McIntosh.  The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago and New York, 1920.

   Monte L. Green has been an important figure in the financial life of 
DeKalb County for a number of years, and is president of the Garrett 
Savings, Loan & Trust Company, Garrett, Indiana.
   His early life was spent in a number of different localities.  He was 
born in Missouri, January 26, 1870, son of Jesse H. and Louisa C. (Beach) 
Green.  His parents were natives of Indiana, the father born in Moore’s Hill 
and the mother in Henry County, near Lewisville.  After their marriage they 
lived in Spencer, Owen County, Indiana, and at various other localities, 
moving to Kenton County, Kentucky, opposite Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1890.  
Jesse Green was for over thirty years postal clerk in the United States 
Rural Mail Service on various lines and finally on the Cincinnati Southern 
Railroad. When retiring from active service he lived in Bellevue, Campbell 
County, Kentucky, opposite Cincinnati, Ohio, where he is still living past 
eighty-one years of age.  The mother died there, April 23, 1905.  Of their 
two children, Glenn Arden and Monte Lee, the later is the only one now 
living.  Jesse H. Green is an honored member of the Grand Army of the 
Republic by virtue of his service in the Civil war. April 15, 1861, he 
enlisted in the navy at New York City, and after leaving that branch of 
the service he enlisted in the Twenty-Fifth Indiana Battery of Light 
Artillery, and was with his command until the close of the war.
   Monte L. Green acquired his education in the public schools, is a 
graduate of the Indianapolis High School, and had a complete business 
course in the Cincinnati Business College. For about twenty years he was 
engaged in the carriage business and other similar lines of activity and in 
1907 moved to Auburn, where he was associated with W. H. McIntire.  Later 
he bought stock in the Auburn Savings, Loan & Trust Company, and was its 
vice president until early in 1913.
   Mr. Green, with associates, organized the Savings, Loan & Trust Company 
of Garrett in 1908.  This institution, formerly capitalized at $25,000 and 
now $40,000, has been one of the bulwarks of DeKalb County finance for the 
past ten years.  Mr. Green is an able financier, and his entire business 
and civic record has been admirable. He served as president of the 
commercial Club while at Auburn, has been much interested in the welfare of 
local schools in various communities, having been president of the School 
Board in Ludlow, Kentucky, is past master of the Masonic Lodge and member 
of the Royal Arch Chapter, Council and Commander, also the thirty-second 
degree Scottish Rite Masons, and the Mystic Shrine at Fort Wayne.  He and 
his wife are both active in the Presbyterian Church.  Mr. Green has been 
elder in the church for years and prominent in the Fort Wayne Presbytery.
   Mr. Green married for his first wife Josephine Pohlman, who died January 
11, 1906, the mother of two sons, Arden D. and Lyman Dale.   For his present 
wife Mr. Green married Helen Samme Ralston.  They have one daughter, Alzein 
Louise. Mrs. Green was born at Auburn, a daughter of A.J. and Hadessa 
(George) Ralston.  Her mother is still living.  A.J. Ralston, who died 
January 12, 1919, was widely known in DeKalb County, having served as 
deputy sheriff and deputy treasurer of the county and in various other 
public offices.  Mrs. Green is a graduate of the Auburn High School and 
has been identified with clubs and civic work for years.  During the war 
she was county chairman of all the loan drives, food conservation and the 
woman member of the Council of Defense. She was one of the leaders among 
the women of DeKalb County in Auxiliary war activities.

Submitted by:
Arlene Goodwin
Auburn, Indiana
Agoodwin@ctlnet.com