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Greenleaf, Benjamin

educator, author, was born Sept. 25, 1786, in Haverhill, Mass. He was an educator of Bradford, Mass., who published a popular series of text-books on arithmetic and the higher mathematics. He died Oct. 29, 1864, in Bradford, Mass.

GREENLEAF, CHARLES RAVENS- CROFT, physician, surgeon, author, was born Jan. 1, 1838, in Carlisle, Pa. During the civil war he was deputy surgeongeneral in the United States army. He is a successful physician and surgeon of San Francisco, Cal.; and the author of several technical medico-military works.

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