Greenhow, Robert
physician, surgeon, author, was born in 1800 in Richmond, Va. He was a surgeon and scholar whose latest years were spent in California. He was the author of History of Tripoli; and History of Oregon and California. He died in 1854 in San Francisco, Cal. born GREENE, WILLIAM BATCHELDER, soldier, clergyman, author, was born April 4, 1819, in Haverhill, Mass. In early life he was a member of the noted Brook Farm community. He was subsequently a unitarian minister, and during the civil war served as colonel of a Massachusetts regiment. He was the author of Remarks on the Science of History; Theory of the Calculus; Socialistic, etc., Fragments; and Reflections and Modern Maxims. He died May 30, 1878, in England.
GREENE, WILLIAM ELLSWORTH, legislator, jurist, was born Nov. 14, 1836, in Farmington, Maine. He received his education in the Farmington academy; and in 1863 graduated from the Bowdoin college in a classical course. During 1865- 67 he was a member of the California state legislature; and during 1867-74 was county judge and ex-officio probate judge of San Joaquin county, Cal., when he resigned. Since 1880 he has been judge of the superior court in and for Alameda county, having been four times successively elected. His present term of office does not expire until January, 1903. He has been largely interested at times in mining, lumbering and irrigation, and in the breeding of fine stock.