Green, Henry Woodhull – Green, Samuel Swett
Green, Henry Woodhull
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, was born Sept. 20, 1802, in Lawrenceville, N. J. He was a member of the legislature in 1842, of the constitutional convention of 1844, and was appointed afterward chancery reporter.
He was chief justice of the state supreme court from 1846 till 1860, when he became chancellor. He died Dec. 19, 1876, in Trenton.
Green, Horace
physician, college president, author, was born Dec. 24, 1802, in Crittenden, Rutland county, Vt. He was a physician of New York city, president of the New York Medical college in 1850-60, and the author of Diseases of the Air Passages; Pathology and Treatment of Croup; Surgical Treatment of the Polypi of the Larynx; and Report of a Hundred Cases of Pulmonary Diseases.
He died Nov. 29, 1866, in New York.
Green, Horton Buxton
educator, clergyman, composer, was born Oct. 29, 1852, in Johnstown, Ohio. In 1853 he moved with his parents to Carroll county, Ill. He received the rudiments of his education in the common schools, and attended the Northern college of Fulton, and subsequently the Cumnock School of Oratory of Evanston, Ill. For a while he was engaged in educational work, and since 1885 has been a clergyman of the methodist episcopal church. He has filled pastorates in the Northwest Iowa conference in Ashton, Inwood, Rock Valley and Sutherland.
He is the author of a number of sacred and popular songs, both of the words and music, which have appeared in sheetform and in several standard collections.
Green, I. L
congressman, was born in Massachusetts. He was a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1805 to 1809, and again from 1811 to 1813.
He died in 1841.
Green, Innis
congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1827 to 1831.
Green, Jacob
patriot, clergyman, author, was born June 22, 1722, in Malden, Mass. He was sent to the provincial congress in 1775; and was chairman of the committee which drafted the state constitution. He died May 24, 1790, in Hanover, Mass.
Green, Jacob
educator, scientist, author, was born July 26, 1790, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a Philadelphia scientist who was professor of chemistry in Jefferson Medical college. He was the author of Chemical Diagrams; Chemical Philosophy; Astronomical Recreations; Trilobites; The Botany of the United States; Notes of a Traveler; and Diseases of the Skin. He died Feb. 1, 1841, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Green, James Stephen
lawyer, congressman, United States senator, was born Feb. 28, 1817, in Fauquier county, Va. He was elected a member of congress in 1846, serving through two terms. In 1853 President Pierce appointed him charge d'affaires, and subsequently minister resident, at Bogota, New Granada. He was again elected a member of congress in 1856, but before taking his seat was chosen by the legislature to represent the state of Missouri in the senate of the United States, where he remained until 1861. He died Jan. 9, 1870, in St.
Louis, Mo.
Green, John
physician, was born in 1784, in Worcester, Mass. He established a large practice in Worcester, accumulated a valuable professional library, and in 1859 presented 7,000 miscellaneous works to the city of Worcester as a basis for a public library. He died Oct. 17, 1865, at Worcester, Mass.
Green, John
lawyer, jurist, state senator, was born May 20, 1807, in Yancey county, N. C. In 1856 he was elected to the Indiana state senate. At the expiration of his senatorial term he was elected judge of the common pleas court.
Green, John
surgeon, was born April 2, 1835, in Worcester, Mass. He became surgeon 'to the St. Louis eye and ear infirmary in 1872, and ophthalmic surgeon to St. Luke's hospital in 1874.
Green, John Cleve
merchant, was born April 14, 1800, in Lawrenceville, N.
J. He endowed Princeton seminary with the Helena professorship of history, built one of the professor's houses, and bequeathed to the institution $50,000. He also founded at Princeton the John C.
Green school of science, and was liberal in his gifts to the university of New York.
He died April 28, 1875, in New York city.
Green, John Orne
physician, author, was born May 14, 1799, in Malden, Mass. From 1868 till his death he was senior physician of St. John's hospital.
He published History of Smallpox in Lowell; Memorial of John C. Dalton; An Address Before the Citizens of Lowell at the Dedication of the Green School House; Lowell and Harvard College. He died Dec. 23, 1886, in Lowell, Mass.
Green, John Orne
physician, surgeon, was born June 7, 1841, in Lowell, Mass. In 1869-70 he was instructor in aural surgery in Harvard, and since that date has been aural surgeon in the Boston city hospital.
Green, John Thompson
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, was born Oct. 18, 1827, in Mechanicsville, S. C. He frequently served in the state legislature between 1850 and 1865. On the reconstruction of the state government he was appointed judge of the third judicial district, and held office till his death. He died Jan. 27, 1875, in Sumter, S. C.
Green, John Withers
soldier, railroad president, was born Nov. 14, 1834, in Darien, Ga. He served in the civil war, and since 1881 he has been general manager of the Georgia railroad.
Green, Joseph
loyalist, author, poet, was born 1706, in Boston, Mass..
He was a Boston loyalist, widely known in his day for his political lampoons and his ready wit. He was the author of The Wonderful Lament of Old Mr. Tanner; and Poems and Satires. He died Dec. 11, 1780, in London, England.
Green, Julia Boynton
author, poet, was born May 25, 1861, in South Byron, N. Y. She is the author of a volume of poems entitled Lines and Interlines.
Green, Lewis W
college president, author, was born Jan. 28, 1806, in Boyle county, Ky. From 1848-56 he served as president of Hampden Sidney college. He was the author of a work entitled Lectures on the Evidences of Christianity. He died May 26, 1863, in Kentucky.
Green, Martin R
jurist, state senator, was born Sept. 27, 1809, in Enfield, N. H. In 1838 he was elected to the Indiana state senate. In 1848 he was again elected a member of the Indiana state senate for a term of three years.
Green, Mary Elizabeth
physician, lecturer, author, was born in 1844, in Machias, N. Y. She was judge of food products at the World's Columbian exposition, and is the author of a work entitled Food Products of the World.
Green, Norvin
railroad president, state legislator, was born April 17, 1818, at New Albany, Ind. In 1840 and afterward he served three terms in the Kentucky legislature. He was president of the Louisville, Cincinnati and Lexington railroad in 1869-73.
Green, Robert Stockton
lawyer, congressman, was born March 25, 1831, at Princeton, N. J. He was city attorney of the city of Elizabeth, N. J., from 1857 to 1868; was surrogate of Union county from 1862 to 1867; and was presiding judge of Union county court of common pleas from 1868 to 1873. He was a delegate to the democratic national conventions of 1860 and 1880; and in 1884 was elected a representative from New Jersey to the forty-ninth congress as a democrat.
Green, Robert Stockton
lawyer, state legislator, was born Oct. 16, 1865, in Elizabeth, N. J. In 1896 he was appointed by the governor of New Jersey as a member of the state board of assessors. In 1897 he was elected to the state legislature.
Green, Rufus Smith
clergyman, college president, author, was born in 1848, in New York. He is a presbyterian minister, president of Elmira College for Women since 1893, and the author of History of Morristown, New Jersey; Our Church at Work; The Christian Steward; and Both Sides, or Jonathan and Absolom.
Green, Samuel A
physician, author, was born March 16, 1830, in Groton, Mass. He has attained success as a noted physician of Boston; and is the author of The Early Records of Groton; History of Medicine in Massachusetts; Groton Historical Series; and other works.
Green, Samuel B
educator, horticulturist, author, was born Sept. 15, 1859, in Chelsea, Mass. After graduating from the Massachusetts Agricultural college in 1879, he took a special course in horticultural work. He has been foreman in two nurseries; horticulturist for the Houghton Farm Experiment Station; superintendent of the horticultural department of the Massachusetts Agricultural college; and for ten years professor of horticulture in the university of Minnesota. He is the author of Amateur Fruit Growing; Vegetable Gardening; and other works.
Green, Samuel Swett
librarian, author, was born Feb. 20, 1837, in Worcester, Mass. In 1858 he graduated from the Harvard college; and from the divinity school of Harvard university in 1864. For several years he was teller of the Worcester National bank; and in 1871 was chosen librarian of the free public library of Worcester, having previously been a director of the library.
He was one of the founders of the American Library association, and its president in 1891; and was the original member and first president of the council of that association. He has lectured at the school of literary economy of Columbia college. He is a member of numerous historical societies, and an officer in many institutions. He is the author of two books, and has published many articles in magazines and newspapers, and delivered a great number of addresses.