Greene, Thomas M – Greenough, Mrs. Sarah Dana
Greene, Thomas M
congressman.
He was a delegate to congress from the territory of Mississippi from 1802 to
Greene, William
governor, was born March 16, 1695, in Warwick, R. I.
He became deputy governor of Rhode Island in 1740, and became governor in 1743. He died Feb. 22, 1758, in Providence, R. I.
Greene, William
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, governor, was born Aug. 16, 1731, in Warwick, R. I. He was chief justice of the colony, and was governor of the state from 1778 to 1786; also for many years speaker of the house; and became governor of Rhode Island. He died Nov. 29, 1809, in Warwick, R. I. he served with distinction as mayor of Lowell. In 1884 he was a delegate to the national republican convention; in 1885 was a member of the Massachusetts house of representatives; and in 1888 was a member of congress. He has been city solicitor of Lowell; was commissioner of insolvency of Middlesex county in 1892; and was elected governor of Massachusetts in 1895. He served in the union army during 1863-64 in the commissary department. He died in 1896.
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.
Greene, William Houston
educator, chemist, author, was born Dec. 30, 1854, in Columbia, Pa. He is a Philadelphia chemist, professor in the Central high school from 1880, and the author of Medical Chemistry; and Lessons in Chemistry.
Greene, William L
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Oct. 3, 1849, in Pike county, Ind. In 1892, without solicitation on his part, he was brought out before the legislature of the state as a candidate for United States senator. In 1895 he was elected judge of the twelfth judicial district of Nebraska; and was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a populist, of which party he was one of the founders.
Greener, Richard Theodore
lawyer, educator, author, was born Jan. 30, 1844, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is the author of Scholar (June, 1874); Eulogy on the Life and Services of William Lloyd Garrison; Socrates as a Teacher; The Intellectual Position of the Negro; Free Speech in Ireland (October, 1882); Benjamin Banneker, the Negro Astronomer; Henry Highland Garnet; and An African Roscius.
Greenhalge, Frederick Thom- As
lawyer, legislator, congressman, governor, was born July 19, 1842, in England. He attended the public schools of Lowell, Mass., and Harvard college. In 1868-69 he was a member of the common council of Lowell; in 1871-73 on the school committee; in 1874-84 was special justice of the police court; and in 1880-81
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.
Greenleaf, Ezekiel Price
philanthropist, was born May 22, 1790, in Quincy, Mass. He bequeathed nearly all his estate, amounting to $500,000, to Harvard, with directions to keep it apart from other bequests, as the Greenleaf fund. He died Dec. 3, 1886, in Boston, Mass.
Greenleaf, Franklin Lewis
manufacturer, was born Oct. 7, 1847, in Boston, Mass. He has been a prominent factor in developing the wheat industry of the northwest; and was for several years president of the Red River Valley Elevator company. In 1889 he was elected president of the Minneapolis chamber of commerce.
Greenleaf, Halbert Stevens
soldier, manufacturer, lawyer, congressman, was born April 12, 1827, in Guilford, Vt. He was elected justice of the peace in 1856; and served two years as a captain of state militia. In 1861 he organized the Yale and Greenleaf Lock company, of which he became business manager. In 1862 he enlisted in the union army, and rose to the rank of colonel. He was elected a representative from New York to the forty-eighth and fifty-second congresses as a democrat.
Greenleaf, James Edward
soldier, merchant, author, was born Aug. 2, 1832, in Portland, Maine. He was an organist for twenty-seven years, and a captain in the militia. He is the author of A Genealogy of the Greenleaf Family, with Historical Notes, of Newbury, Mass.
Greenleaf, Jeremiah
author, was born Dec. 7, 1791. He was the author of Greenleaf's Grammar, and devoted a large part of his life to study, authorship and instruction in this special branch of education. He was also the author of Greenleaf's Gazetteer and Greenleaf's Atlas.
Greenleaf, Jonathan
ship builder, legislator, congressman, was born in July, 1723. In 1774 he was unanimously chosen to represent the town of Newburyport in the general court. He was a member of the continental congress at the commencement of the war. He died May 24, 1807.
Greenleaf, Jonathan
clergyman, author, was born Sept. 4, 1785, in Newburyport, Mass. He was a presbyterian clergyman of Brooklyn; and the author of Sketches and Ecclesiastical History of Maine; History of New York Churches; and Genealogy of the Greenleaf Family. He died April 24, 1865, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Greenleaf, Moses
author, was born in 1778, in Newburyport, Mass. He was the author of Statistical View of Maine; and Survey of Maine. He died March 20, 1834, in Williamsburg, Maine.
Greenleaf, Simon
educator, lawyer, jurist, author, was born Dec. 5, 1783, in Newburyport, Mass. He was a distinguished jurist of Massachusetts, and professor of law at Harvard university from 1835 till his death. His greatest work, A Treatise on the Laws of Evidence, has passed into fifteen editions. His other writings include Origin and Principles of Freemasonry; Full Collection of Cases Overruled, etc.; Reports of Cases in the Supreme Court of Maine, 1820-31; and Examination of the Testimony of the Four Evangelists by the Rules of Evidence. He died Oct. 6, 1853, in Cambridge, Mass.
Greenly, William L
governor, was born Sept. 18, 1813, in Hamilton, N.
Y. In 1845 he was elected lieutenantgovernor of Michigan, and became acting governor in 1847.
Greenman, Edward W
merchant, manufacturer, congressman, was born Jan. 26, 1840, in Berlin, N. Y. He was supervisor of Berlin in 1866-68; was elected clerk of Rensselaer county in 1868, serving a full term of three years; and was deputy county clerk for ten years. He was elected to the fiftieth congress as a democrat.
Greenough, Henry
artist, architect, author, was born Oct. 5, 1807, in Boston, Mass. He was an architect of Cambridge whose writings include the novels Ernest Carroll; Apelles and his Contemporaries; and various essays on art. He died Dec. 18, 1852, in Somerville, Mass.
Greenough, Horatio
sculptor, was born Sept. 6, 1805, in Boston, Mass. His Chanting Cherubs was the first group in marble executed by an American sculptor.
He executed the colossal statue of Washington in front of the national capitol, for which congress paid twenty thousand dollars, and a group entitled The Rescue, on the steps leading to the rotunda of the same building. He died Dec. 18, 1852, in Boston, Mass.
Greenough, James Bradstreet
educator, author, was born in 1833, in Maine. He was a professor of Latin at Harvard university from 1873, who has published with J. H. Allen a series of classical text-books. Other works of his are, Special Vocabulary to Virgil; and The Queen of Hearts, a Dramatic Fantasia.
Greenough, Richard Salton- Stall
sculptor, was born April 27, 1819, in Jamaica Plains, Mass. Among his works are a statue of Franklin, placed in the city hall square of Boston; the Boy and Eagle, owned by the Boston athenæum; a Carthagenian Woman; Cupid on a Tortoise; Elaine; Circe; and a Psyche.
Greenough, Mrs. Sarah Dana
(LORING), sculptor, author, poet, was born Feb. 19, 1827, in Boston, Mass. She was the author of In Extremis, a Story of a Broken Law; Arabesques, four stories of the supernatural; and Mary Magdalene, and Other Poems. She died Aug. 9, 1885, in Austria.