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Green, William Alexander

soldier, physician, author, was born Jan. 5, 1834, in Augusta, Ga. He was the inventor of a hypodermic syringe, the designer of a hypodermic syringe-needle, and of Green's pocket cases. He is the author of papers on the Small-Pox; Vaccination and Its Results; and The Use of the Hypodermic Syringe.

Green, William Henry

clergyman, author, was born Jan. 27, 1825, in Groveville, N. J. He is a presbyterian clergyman, and professor of biblical literature at Princeton college from 1851. He is the author of The Pentateuch Vindicated; Grammar of the Hebrew Language; A Hebrew Chrestomathy; Argument of Job Unfolded; Moses and the Prophets; Newton Lectures for 1885; The Hebrew Feasts; The Higher Criticism of the Pentateuch; and The Unity of the Book of Genesis.

Green, William Mercer

bishop, author, was born May 2, 1798, in Wilmington, Del. He was the first protestant episcopal bishop of Mississippi, and the author of Lives of Bishop Ravenscroft and Bishop Otey. He died Feb. 13, 1887, in Sewanee, Tenn.

Green, William Wilkinson

lawyer, author, was born Aug. 1, 1820, in Hindostan. This successful lawyer has been editor and owner of the Daily Syracuse Democrat, and of the Weekly Onondaga Democrat, and other publications. He is the author of a work on Morals; a prize essay on The American Government; and number of meritorious poems. a

Green, Willis

surveyor, state legislator, congressman, was born in the Shenandoah valley, Va. He represented Kentucky county in the legislature of Virginia; and was a member of the Danville convention in 1785, and of the first state constitutional convention of 1792.

He was a surveyor for locating land warrants; was a member of the Kentucky legislature in 1836 and 1837; and was a representative in congress from that state from 1839 to 1845.

Green, Willis Duff

physician, was born Jan. 18, 1821, in Danville, Ky.

He attended the Center college of his native city, and graduated in medicine from the medical department of the Transylvania university of Lexington, Ky., and the Medical college of Ohio. He is a successful physician of Mount Vernon, Ill.; grand master of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of Illinois, and a representative to the grand lodge of the United States.

Greene, Aella

journalist, author, was born in 1838, in Massachusetts. He is a journalist of Springfield, Mass., and the author of Rhymes of Yankee Land; Into the Sunshine, and Other Poems; Stanza and Sequel, and Other Poems; John Peters; and Gathered from Life.

Greene, Albert Gorton

lawyer, jurist, author, poet, was born Feb. 10, 1802, in Providence, R. I. He was for many years president of the Rhode Island Historical society. He will be long remembered by his popular lyric, Old Grimes is Dead. He published Canonchet.

He died Jan. 3, 1868, in Cleveland, Ohio.

Greene, Asa

humorist, author, was born in 1788, in Ashburnham, Mass. He was a bookseller of New York city of note among his contemporaries as a humorist, and the author of Life and Adventures of Dr. Dodimus Duckworth; Perils of Pearl Street; A Yankee Among the Nullifiers; A Glance at New York; Debtor's Prison; and Travels of Ex-Barber Fribbleton in America. He died in 1837, in New York city.

Greene, Charles Ezra

educator, author, was born Feb. 12, 1842, in Cambridge, Mass. He has been a professor of civil engineering in the university of Michigan from 1872, and is the author of Graphical Method for Analysis of Bridge Trusses; Trusses and Arches; and Notes on Rankine's Civil Engineering.