{"id":115,"date":"2010-05-01T19:46:23","date_gmt":"2010-05-02T00:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/?p=115"},"modified":"2010-05-01T19:49:43","modified_gmt":"2010-05-02T00:49:43","slug":"joplins-first-florist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/?p=115","title":{"rendered":"Joplin&#8217;s First Florist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/24317830@N04\/4036254624\/in\/set-72157616085132956\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Pink rose\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2434\/4036254624_99d9dffae9_m.jpg\" alt=\"Pink rose\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thomas Green, a native of Manchester, England, was reportedly Joplin&#8217;s first florist.\u00a0 He immigrated to the United States in 1867 with his wife, Caroline Hathaway Taylor Green.\u00a0 The two were married on the Isle of Man and Mrs.\u00a0 Taylor claimed William Shakespeare&#8217;s wife as a distant cousin.\u00a0 In 1877, The Taylors arrived in Joplin and\u00a0 Thomas Green bought property in \u201cthe western residence district of Joplin.\u201d Within a few years he established flower gardens and later a greenhouse where he raised vegetables.<\/p>\n<p>The glass greenhouses allegedly extended over the entire \u201chalf block between Second and Third Streets on Byers Avenue.\u201d He could be seen \u201cearly every morning and late every evening working with his flowers.\u201d Green hired Benjamin Crum, who went on to establish his own greenhouse business at the corner of Seventh and Jackson.\u00a0 Green, it was remarked, supplied flowers for hundreds, if not thousands, of Joplin weddings and funerals.\u00a0 He was undoubtedly a well known man who provided a service one might not expect in a rough and tumble mining town, but one certainly in demand with the dangers of the mines.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Sources: Joplin Globe, Livingston&#8217;s History of Jasper County<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Green, a native of Manchester, England, was reportedly Joplin&#8217;s first florist.\u00a0 He immigrated to the United States in 1867 with his wife, Caroline Hathaway Taylor Green.\u00a0 The two were married on the Isle of Man and Mrs.\u00a0 Taylor claimed William Shakespeare&#8217;s wife as a distant cousin.\u00a0 In 1877, The Taylors arrived in Joplin and\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,35],"tags":[445,443,444,328,442,31,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historicjoplin.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}