Green, Sanford Moon – Greene, Charles Warren
Green, Sanford Moon
lawyer, jurist, author, was born May 30, 1807, in Rensselaer county, N. Y. He was elected to the Michigan state senate for two years, receiving the election in 1845. In 1848 he was appointed a judge of the supreme court, and performed the duties of circuit judge for ten years. He subsequently served as circuit judge for nearly twenty-five years. He is the author of A Treatise on the Practice of the Circuit Courts of Michigan; A Treatise on the Practice of the Courts of Common Law of Michigan, in two volumes; A Treatise on Townships and the Power and Duties of Township Officers; and A Treatise on the Nature, Causes, Treatment and Prevention of Crime.
Green, Seth
pisciculturist, author, was born March 19, 1817, in Rochester, N. Y. He was a noted pisciculturist, and from 1870 until his death the superintendent of the New York fish commission. He is the author of Trout Culture; Home Fishing and Home Waters; and Fish Hatching and Fish Catching. He died Aug. 20, 1888, in Rochester, N. Y.
Green, Thomas
governor of Maryland, was born in England. He was one of the Roman catholic pilgrims that accompanied Leonard Calvert to Maryland in 1634; was appointed privy councillor in 1639, and governor in 1637. He died in Maryland.
Green, Thomas
soldier, was born in 1816, in Virginia. He joined the confederate army and was appointed majorgeneral for distinguished services. He died April 14, 1864, in Blairs Plantation, La.
Green, Thomas Andre
lawyer, was born Oct. 21, 1840, in Blair county, Pa., a son of Thomas and Martha Green.
He received the rudiments of his education in the excellent common schools of Pennsylvania, at an academy at Butler, and graduated from the Alleghany college, Pa. In 1861 he was admitted to the bar of the supreme court of Pennsylvania at Pittsburg.
During the civil war he was captain of company F, ninetysixth Illinois volunteer infantry, and served with distinction. He has given his whole life to the study and practice of law, and has also been a close and earnest student of belles lettres. He is the author of a standard work on Pleading and Practice, which has received the highest eulogiums from the most eminent lawyers and jurists in America. He was attorney for the people of Leadville in a suit involving the title to the entire townsite, the legal questions involved of which affected the titles to three hundred millions worth of mining property. He was the attorney in one mining suit in the United States circuit court in Denver, involving an interest in the Emma mine, valued at some ten millions, which suit he successfully gained, and from this suit he realized a fee of two million dollars, the largest fee ever made by an attorney in the United States. During 1879-80 Mr. Green located and patented over one thousand acres of mineral claims in the Leadville mining district, and is still heavily interested therein. He is intolerant of wrong; and although possessed of a keen, subtle and incisive intellect, he always uses the argument that is right, just and equitable.
Green, Thomas E
clergyman, bishop, was born in 1857, in Pennsylvania. He fills a pastorate in the Grace episcopal church of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and has built up the largest parish in the state.
He was elected bishop of Iowa in 1898.
Green, Thomas Jefferson
soldier, was born in 1801, in Warren county, N. C. He removed to Texas early in life, and served as brigadier-general of volunteers in the war of Texan independence. He died Dec. 13, 1863, in Warren county, N. C.
Green, Thomas R
soldier, journalist, was born May 6, 1845, in Ireland, Ind. He served as a union soldier during the civil war in company G, forty-second regiment Indiana volunteer infantry. He was with Sherman from Chattanooga to Atlanta, and from Fayetteville to Washington, D. C.; and thence to Louisville, Ky. He also served two years in the Indiana state militia. He has served as postmaster of Duff, Ind.; is a prominent member of the Grand Army of the Republic; and the editor and owner of the Banner of Lutesville, Mo.
Green, Traill
physician, chemist, educator, was born May 25, 1813, in Easton, Pa. He was for a year physician to the Philadelphia dispensary, and then settled in Easton, where he has since practiced. In 1837 he was elected professor of general and applied chemistry in Lafayette.
Green, Wharton Jackson
soldier, agriculturist, congressman, was born about 1840, in St. Marks, Fla. Upon the breaking out of the civil war he enlisted in the confederate army; and was promoted to lieutenant-colonel. He was a delegate to the democratic national conventions of 1868 and 1876; and was a presidential elector in 1868. He purchased the famous Tokay Vineyard, in Cumberland county, N. C., and settled there. He was elected a representative from North Carolina to the forty-eighth and forty-ninth congresses as a democrat.
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 Collins
soldier, lawyer, United States senator, born April 15, 1791, in East Greenwich, R. I. In 1815 he was elected to the general assembly of the state; in 1816 was elected a brigadier-general of militia, and subsequently became a major-general. From 1822 to 1825 he served again in the legislature of the state, and was chosen speaker. From 1825 to 1843 he was attorney-general of the state; and from 1845 to 1851 was a senator in congress from Rhode Island.
He died Jan. 8, 1863, in Providence, R. I.
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.
Greene, Charles Gordon
journalist, state legislator, was born July 1, 1804, in Boscawen, N. H. He founded, in 1831, the Boston Morning Post, which he conducted until he sold it in 1875. He was at one time a member of the state legislature; and naval officer of the port of Boston for two terms. He died Sept. 27, 1886, in Boston, Mass.
Greene, Charles Warren
physician, author, was born Aug. 17, 1840, in Belchertown, Mass. He is a Massachusetts physician, and the author of Animals, their Homes and Habits; and Birds, their Homes and Habits.