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Green, Duff – Green, Jacob

Green, Duff

lawyer, journalist, author, was born Aug. 15, 1791, in Kentucky. He was a Washington lawyer and journalist, and the author of Facts and Suggestions; and How to Pay off the National Debt. He died June 10, 1875, in Dalton, Ga.

Green, Ernest Sherman

journalist, poet, was born April 30, 1866, in Waseca, Minn. He is the editor of Mexican and South American poems; and the author of a volume entitled Poems of the Past, Present and Future.

Green, Ezra

soldier, physician, was born June 17, 1746, in Malden, Mass. In 1775 he joined the continental army as surgeon. He was a delegate to the New Hampshire constitutional convention of 1820. He died July 25, 1847, in Dover, N. H.

Green, Francis Matthews

naval officer, author, was born Feb. 23, 1835, in Boston, Mass. He was a United States naval commander, and the author of The Navigation of the Caribbean Sea; Telegraphic Determination of Longitudes; and List of Geographical Positions.

Green, Frederick W

congressman, was born in Maryland. He removed to Ohio, and was elected a representative in congress from that state from 1851 to 1855.

Green, George Walton

lawyer, author, was born in 1854 in New York. He is a lawyer of New York city and the author of Repudiation.

Green, Henry Woodhull

lawyer, jurist, state legislator, was born Sept. 20, 1802, in Lawrenceville, N. J. He was a member of the legislature in 1842, of the constitutional convention of 1844, and was appointed afterward chancery reporter.

He was chief justice of the state supreme court from 1846 till 1860, when he became chancellor. He died Dec. 19, 1876, in Trenton.

Green, Horace

physician, college president, author, was born Dec. 24, 1802, in Crittenden, Rutland county, Vt. He was a physician of New York city, president of the New York Medical college in 1850-60, and the author of Diseases of the Air Passages; Pathology and Treatment of Croup; Surgical Treatment of the Polypi of the Larynx; and Report of a Hundred Cases of Pulmonary Diseases.

He died Nov. 29, 1866, in New York.

Green, I. L

congressman, was born in Massachusetts. He was a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1805 to 1809, and again from 1811 to 1813.

He died in 1841.

Green, Innis

congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1827 to 1831.

Green, Jacob

patriot, clergyman, author, was born June 22, 1722, in Malden, Mass. He was sent to the provincial congress in 1775; and was chairman of the committee which drafted the state constitution. He died May 24, 1790, in Hanover, Mass.

Green, Jacob

educator, scientist, author, was born July 26, 1790, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a Philadelphia scientist who was professor of chemistry in Jefferson Medical college. He was the author of Chemical Diagrams; Chemical Philosophy; Astronomical Recreations; Trilobites; The Botany of the United States; Notes of a Traveler; and Diseases of the Skin. He died Feb. 1, 1841, in Philadelphia, Pa.

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