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George Gill Green (
January 16,
1842 –
February 26,
1925) was a
patent medicine entrepreneur, and
Colonel in the
US Civil War.
He was born in
Clarksboro, New Jersey to Ellen (1826-?) and Lewis M. Green (1818-1894). George's mother was from
Pennsylvania, and his father was working as a butcher. George attended the
University of Pennsylvania medical school for two years, but left in 1864 before he graduated. He enlisted in the 142d Regiment, Illinois Volunteers during the
Civil War. In 1867 he started a wholesale drug business in
Baltimore, Maryland but the factory was destroyed by a fire. He moved to
Ohio and married Angie Brown and had their first child there. They moved to
Woodbury, New Jersey on
Thanksgiving Day;
November 23,
1872. They had a son: George Gill Green II (1883-1971) who was born on
January 17,
1883 and died in January of 1971.
George bought the rights to "Green's August Flower" and "Dr. Boschee's German Syrup" from his father, Lewis M. Green (1818-?), who sold the elixir under the name "L.M. Green". George created a marketing campaign involving mass mailings of free samples, and the distribution of thousands of his almanacs. Both elixirs were mostly
laudanum. He became a millionaire and in 1880 he built Woodbury's Opera House. In 1898 he built the
Castle Green in
Pasadena, California as an annex to his
Hotel Green. Hotel Green is listed on the
National Register of Historic Places, the California State Historic Register, and the City of Pasadena Register of City Treasures. He also had a summer home at
Lake Hopatcong. His
patent medicine business declined after the passage of the
Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906 and by 1916 the products were discontinued. He died in
Woodbury, New Jersey on
February 26,
1925.
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