Greene, George W
educator, lawyer, jurist, congressman, author, born July 4, 1831, in Orange county, N. Y. He came to the bar in 1860; and in 1861 was elected judge of Orange county for three years. He was elected a representative from New York to the forty-first congress.
GREENE, GEORGE WASHINGTON, educator, author, was born April 8, 1811, in East Greenwich, R. I. He was an historian who was professor of American history at Cornell university from 1872.
He was the author of Historical Studies; The German Element in the American War of Independence; Short History of Rhode Island; Historical View of the American Revolution; Life of General Nathaniel Greene; Biographical Studies; and History and Geography of the Middle Ages. He died Feb. 2, 1883, in East Greenwich, R. I.