Green B. Giltner

    Green B. Giltner, Lancaster Township, lives on a little farm of twenty acres, which he owns, that lies adjacent to the town of Lancaster, in Lancaster Township. He is highly esteemed by his neighbors, as is evinced by the fact of electing him township trustee in the year 1886, and re-electing him in 1888. He is a good citizen and an upright, moral man, and a member of the Baptist Church.

    He was born November 7, 1846, in Smyrna Township, Jefferson County; attended the schools of that township; was married in 1869 to Miss Ella Spielman, of this township; was elected trustee of the township in 1872; elected justice of the peace in that township in 1876, and lived in that township until 1878. He then removed to Lancaster Township, where he still resides. He has six living children, three boys and three girls: Leora, Thomas D., Flora, Myra C., Philip and Robert E. He enlisted on the 26th day of September, 1861, in Company D, Fiftieth Regiment Indiana Volunteers, and served till the 9th of June, 1862, when he was discharge don account of disability. He is a member of the G. A .R.. He was appointed Notary Public for Lancaster Township in 1879, but resigned this office in the spring of 1886, when he was elected trustee of the township. His parents were Philip and Nancy Jane (Conway) Giltner. His father was born in Bourbon County, Kentucky, but raised in Hunter's Bottom, Trimble County, Kentucky; he came to Indiana when about 21 years old, and settled on a farm in Smyrna Township, Jefferson County, where he now lives. His mother was a native of Indiana, and is now living. Mr. Green B. Giltner is a Republican.

Source: Biographical and Historical Souvenir for the counties of Clark, Crawford, Harrison, Floyd, Jefferson, Jennings, Scott and Washington, Indiana. By John M. Gresham & Co., 1889.