[2] Green graduated from public school when he was twelve and had private tuition for four years.
He was admitted to the bar when he was twenty-one and developed a large and lucrative law practice in New York City.
He served in the Assembly in 1896[3] (when he introduced bills that would amend commands of the Penal Code with reference to suicide, relieve New York hospitals from a water tax, require certain precautions to be made against fire, regulate the right of removal of actions in New York courts, amend the Constitution with reference to passes, make Andrew Jackson's birthday a legal holiday, and make changes to medical treatment of the sick and injured), 1897 (having run the previous election as a Democrat and Populist candidate),[4] 1898,[5] 1899,[6] and 1900.
Their children were Eleanor Constance, Dorothy Ruth, and Robert Alan.
[9] Green died at home from a heart ailment after an illness of several months on May 31, 1939.