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Author: S. J. Clarke

WALLER O. GREEN.
    Waller O. Green, secretary and a member of the board of directors of the
Missouri Lumber Company of Hot Springs, his close application, his thoroughness
and his progressiveness winning for him a place among the representative
business men of the city, was born in Marceline, Missouri, October 3, 1884, and
is a son of Robert and Missouri E. (Hainds) Green, both of whom were also
natives of Missouri. The father was for many years prominently identified with
the cattle breeding and cattle dealing industry of Missouri, continuing in the
business to the time of his death, which occurred about 1906. His widow survives
and resides on the old home farm near Marceline, which has been her home for the
past forty-two years.

    Waller O. Green was educated in the public schools of Marceline and in the
William Jewell College at Liberty, Missouri, following which he turned his
attention to merchandising at Meadville, Missouri, and was successfully engaged
in business of that character until 1901, at which time he went to Kansas City
and for four years was employed as a shoe salesman in one of the large
establishments of that character in Missouri's western metropolis. In 1905 he
removed to Kirksville, Missouri, and was employed by the Adair Lumber Company,
of which his brother-in-law, W. O. Creason, was general manager. Mr. Green
remained in that position for two years and then came to Hot Springs, where in
connection with his brother-in-law he purchased the business of the Missouri
Lumber Company. They then incorporated their interests under the same name, with
a capital stock of seventy-five thousand dollars, all owned by Mr. Green and Mr.
and Mrs. Creason. The company does an extensive business as dealers in lumber
and in fact ranks with the leading lumber firms of this section of the state.
They have developed their trade along substantial lines and their business is
now one of most gratifying proportions. Mr. Green is likewise a member of the
Green-Wheeler Lumber & Coal Company of Manchester, Kentucky. He is watchful of
every opportunity pointing to advancement and success in business. He readily
discriminates between the essential and the non-essential in all commercial
affairs and his determination and energy have enabled him to overcome obstacles
and difficulties and push steadily forward to the goal of prosperity. In
addition to his lumber interests he is a stockholder in the Rowland Oil Company
of El Dorado, Arkansas, which has two producing wells, and he is a member of the
Arkansas Oil & Mineral Association. He is likewise a heavy landholder in Garland
county, on the Little Rock and Hot Springs highway, and his holdings constitute
a valuable oil prospect, which is being developed and a well is now being drilled.

    Mr. Green was married in Meadville, Missouri, in 1904, to Miss Mary K.
Creason and they became parents of one son, Onis Creason Green. Fraternally Mr.
Green is connected with the Hot Springs Lodge of the Knights of Pythias and he
also belongs to the Rotary Club. The religious faith of Mr. Green is that of the
Baptist church, while his wife worships at the Christian church. They are both
most highly esteemed people, enjoying the warm regard of all with whom business
or social relations have brought them into contact. Mr. Green deserves much
credit tor what he has accomplished. He started out in the business world
without capital save the qualities of industry and perseverance. He early
recognized the tact that success plays as a will-o'-the-wisp before the dreamer,
tauntingly slips away from the sluggard but yields its rewards to the man of
earnest purpose and thorough reliability. He therefore cultivated these
qualities and as the years have passed on has advanced steadily, step by step,
until he occupies a place in the front rank among the foremost business men of
his adopted city.


Additional Comments:
Citation:
Centennial History of Arkansas
Volume II
Chicago-Little Rock: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
1922



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