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Green, Thomas Andre

lawyer, was born Oct. 21, 1840, in Blair county, Pa., a son of Thomas and Martha Green.

He received the rudiments of his education in the excellent common schools of Pennsylvania, at an academy at Butler, and graduated from the Alleghany college, Pa. In 1861 he was admitted to the bar of the supreme court of Pennsylvania at Pittsburg.

During the civil war he was captain of company F, ninetysixth Illinois volunteer infantry, and served with distinction. He has given his whole life to the study and practice of law, and has also been a close and earnest student of belles lettres. He is the author of a standard work on Pleading and Practice, which has received the highest eulogiums from the most eminent lawyers and jurists in America. He was attorney for the people of Leadville in a suit involving the title to the entire townsite, the legal questions involved of which affected the titles to three hundred millions worth of mining property. He was the attorney in one mining suit in the United States circuit court in Denver, involving an interest in the Emma mine, valued at some ten millions, which suit he successfully gained, and from this suit he realized a fee of two million dollars, the largest fee ever made by an attorney in the United States. During 1879-80 Mr. Green located and patented over one thousand acres of mineral claims in the Leadville mining district, and is still heavily interested therein. He is intolerant of wrong; and although possessed of a keen, subtle and incisive intellect, he always uses the argument that is right, just and equitable.