An Account of Oakland County / edited by Lillian Drake Avery.

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automobile business, as one of its prominent and progressive representatives in the city of Pontiac. He is a member of Birmingham Lodge
of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and of Pontiac Lodge, Knights
of Pythias. He is the head of the firm of J. Wendell Green Company,
automobile dealer in Maxwell and Chrysler cars. The firm was established in 1918 by himself and father in the city of Pontiac. Marian
Blanche was born in Clarkston, this county, April 10, 1900, and was
educated in the public schools of Pontiac. On August 31, 1922, she
married Harold F. Flickinger, of Pontiac. H. F. Flickinger was born
February 7, 1899, in Rosendale, Missouri, and moved to Michigan with
his parents in 1911. He graduated from the Pontiac high school with
the class of 1916, and when the World war started enlisted in the medical corps of the United States Navy, where he saw active service with
the United States Marines and the transport force, having made thirteen round trips between the United States and France. He is a member of Roosevelt Lodge No. 510, Free and Accepted Masons, and the
First Methodist Church and employed in the accounting department
of the Fisher Body Corporation. Thomas Green, father of David A.,
was born October 5, 1816, and was a young man when he came to
Michigan and established himself as a pioneer settler in Oakland
county, Michigan. In the year 1849 he purchased Ininety-six acres of
land in Bloomfield township, and he paid for this property, which is in
the very center of the beautiful Bloomfield Hills district, at the rate of
seven dollars an acre, the old homestead being still owned by his heirs
and being now a very valuable property, as the district has become the
location of many of the finest suburban homes of the Detroit metropolitan area. Mr. Green reclaimed his land from the forest wilds and
developed one of the excellent farms of the county. He was one of the
honored pioneer citizens of this county at the time of his death, in 1898.
Thomas Green was an ardent abolitionist in the period leading up to
and culminating in the Civil war. He united with the Republican party
at the time of its formation, assisted in the organization of its contingent
in Bloomfield township, where he assembled with others for this purpose, at the old Weston Tavern. He cast his vote in support of General
John C. Fremont, first presidential candidate of the Republican party.
Martha Elizabeth Green, his widow, passed away in 1918, at the venerable age of eighty-four years. She was born in Oyster Bay, New
York, October L1, 1834, and was a daughter of William and Mary Ann
(Thompson) Sandbrook, who likewise were sterling pioneer settlers
in Bloomfield township, the homestead now located in Section 12,
Bloomfield township. The children of Thomas and Martha E. Green
that are living are: Miss Frances Green, born January 24, 1856; David
A. Green, date mentioned above; Charles W. Green, born October 31,
1866, and Oscar L. Green, born October 13, 1871, all of Pontiac; and
Mrs. Carrie B. Perkins, born July 1, 1864, of Troy, Michigan. William Sandbrook was born in Oxford, England, in 1808, and his death
occurred at his old home in Bloomfield township in the year 1885. He
was one of the founders and builders of that township, was an uncompromising advocate of the principles of the Democratic party, and was
influential in public affairs in his community. His wife was a daugh