John Green and his Forty Years in HoustonGreen was born in Tuskegee, Alabama on January 26, 1856 to a slave owing father. He remembered the war years. He referred to himself as a link between the The Old and The New South. During his life, Green was a farmer, railroad man, school teacher, local preacher, pastor, evangelist, and pastor again. He lived 41 years in Houston and in this book, he gives an excellent first hand look at life in the south during the last half of the 19th century and