Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography

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Green, Mary Elizabeth

physician, lecturer, author, was born in 1844, in Machias, N. Y. She was judge of food products at the World's Columbian exposition, and is the author of a work entitled Food Products of the World.

Green, Norvin

railroad president, state legislator, was born April 17, 1818, at New Albany, Ind. In 1840 and afterward he served three terms in the Kentucky legislature. He was president of the Louisville, Cincinnati and Lexington railroad in 1869-73.

Green, Robert Stockton

lawyer, state legislator, was born Oct. 16, 1865, in Elizabeth, N. J. In 1896 he was appointed by the governor of New Jersey as a member of the state board of assessors. In 1897 he was elected to the state legislature.

Green, Rufus Smith

clergyman, college president, author, was born in 1848, in New York. He is a presbyterian minister, president of Elmira College for Women since 1893, and the author of History of Morristown, New Jersey; Our Church at Work; The Christian Steward; and Both Sides, or Jonathan and Absolom.

Green, Samuel A

physician, author, was born March 16, 1830, in Groton, Mass. He has attained success as a noted physician of Boston; and is the author of The Early Records of Groton; History of Medicine in Massachusetts; Groton Historical Series; and other works.

Green, Samuel B

educator, horticulturist, author, was born Sept. 15, 1859, in Chelsea, Mass. After graduating from the Massachusetts Agricultural college in 1879, he took a special course in horticultural work. He has been foreman in two nurseries; horticulturist for the Houghton Farm Experiment Station; superintendent of the horticultural department of the Massachusetts Agricultural college; and for ten years professor of horticulture in the university of Minnesota. He is the author of Amateur Fruit Growing; Vegetable Gardening; and other works.

Green, Seth

pisciculturist, author, was born March 19, 1817, in Rochester, N. Y. He was a noted pisciculturist, and from 1870 until his death the superintendent of the New York fish commission. He is the author of Trout Culture; Home Fishing and Home Waters; and Fish Hatching and Fish Catching. He died Aug. 20, 1888, in Rochester, N. Y.

Green, Thomas

governor of Maryland, was born in England. He was one of the Roman catholic pilgrims that accompanied Leonard Calvert to Maryland in 1634; was appointed privy councillor in 1639, and governor in 1637. He died in Maryland.

Green, Thomas

soldier, was born in 1816, in Virginia. He joined the confederate army and was appointed majorgeneral for distinguished services. He died April 14, 1864, in Blairs Plantation, La.

Green, Thomas E

clergyman, bishop, was born in 1857, in Pennsylvania. He fills a pastorate in the Grace episcopal church of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and has built up the largest parish in the state.

He was elected bishop of Iowa in 1898.

Green, Thomas Jefferson

soldier, was born in 1801, in Warren county, N. C. He removed to Texas early in life, and served as brigadier-general of volunteers in the war of Texan independence. He died Dec. 13, 1863, in Warren county, N. C.

Green, Traill

physician, chemist, educator, was born May 25, 1813, in Easton, Pa. He was for a year physician to the Philadelphia dispensary, and then settled in Easton, where he has since practiced. In 1837 he was elected professor of general and applied chemistry in Lafayette.

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