The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume IV G Greene, Theodore Phinney GREENE, Sarah Pratt (MoLean), author, was born in Simsbury, Conn., July 3, 1856; daughter of Dudley and Mary (Payne) McLean, and granddaughter of Allen and Hannah (Bishop) MacLean. She was educated by private teachers and entered Mt. Holyoke college in 1970, but was not graduated. She was married in 1886 to Franklin Lynde Green of Fremont. Ohio. She is the author of: Cape Cod Folks (1881); Towrhead (1883); Some Other Folk (1884); Last Chance Junction (1889); Leon Pontifex (1890); Vesty of the Basins (1892); Stuart and Bamboo (1897); The Moral Imbeciles (1898); Flood Tide (1901), and contributions to periodicals.

The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume IV G Greene, Sarah Pratt (MoLean) GREENE, Samuel Stillman, educator, was born in Belchertown, Mass., May 3, 1810; son of Ebenezer and Sybil (Hitchcock) Greene. He was brought up on a farm, paid his college expenses by teaching school, and was graduated from Brown in 1837. He was assistant and principal of the Baptist academy, Worcester, Mass., 1837-40; superintendent of public schools, Springfield, Mass., 1840-42; assistant in the English high school, Boston, Mass., 1842-44; master of the Phillips grammar school, Boston, 1844-49; first agent of the Massachusetts board of education, 1849-51; superintendent of public schools, Providence, R.I., 1851-55; professor of didactics at Brown, 1851-55; of mathematics and civil engineering, 1855-64; of natural philosophy and astronomy, 1864-75; and of mathematics and astronomy, 1875-83. He was president of the Rhode Island institute, of the American institute of instruction, and of the National teachers' association. Brown conferred on him the degree of LL.D. in 1870. He was married: first, in 1839 to Edna Amelia Bartlett of Worcester, Mass., and secondly, in 1854, to Mary Adeline, daughter of Ebenezer Bailey, the author of Bailey's "Algebra" Professor Greene is the author of: Analysis of the English Language (1848); First Lessons in Grammar (1848); Elements of English Grammar (1852); English Grammar (1867); and Introduction to English Grammar (1868). He died in Providence, R.I, Jan. 24, 1883.

The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume IV G Greene, Samuel Stillman page 404 GREENE, Samuel Dana, naval officer, was born in Cumberland, Md., Feb. 11, 1839; son of George Sears and Martha (Dana) Greene. He was graduated at the U.S. naval academy in 1859 and was a midshipman on the Hartford in the China squadron, 1859-61. When the Monitor was designed by John Ericsson, Lieutenant Greene volunteered for service on that vessel and was second in command in the battle of Hampton Roads, and continued on board up to the time it floundered at sea off Hatteras, Dec. 29, 1862. He took charge of the guns in the turret during the fight with the Merrimac and personally fired every shot up to the time of the disabling of Lieutenant Worden when he took command arid directed the movements of the [p.404] vessel until the Merrimac escaped up the Elizabeth river, where he could not follow, having no pilot on board. He afterward engaged in the attack on Fort Darling and the other naval operations on the James river and accompanied the expedition to Charleston, S.C., in 1862 in which the Monitor was lost. He was executive officer on the Florida and took part in the blockade of the Southern ports in 1863, and was executive officer on the Iroquois in the search for the Alabama, 1864-65. He was assistant professor of mathematics at Annapolis, 1865-68, of astronomy, 1871-75, and assistant to the superintendent, 1878-82. He was promoted lieutenant-commander, 1866, and commander in 1872. He was commander of the Juniata, 1875, of the Monongahela, 1876-77, of the Despatch, 1882-84, and of the Portsmouth navy yard, 1884. He died at Portsmouth, N.H., Dec. 11, 1884.

The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume IV G Greene, Samuel Dana GREENE, Ray, senator, was born in Warwick, R.I., Feb. 2, 1765; son of Wilham and Catherine (Ray) Greene. He was graduated from Yale in 1784, was admitted to the bar, and opened an office in Providence. He was attorney-general of Rhode Island, 1794-97, and on November 22 of the latter year was elected to the U.S. senate to complete the unexpired term of William Bradford, resigned. He was reelected in 1799 for a full term but resigned on Dec. 7, 1801, to accept the post of district judge of Rhode Island, tendered him by President Adams. Some technicality in the appointment was overlooked by President Adams and President Jefferson refused to rectify the mistake, and Judge Greene retired. He married Mary, daughter of George Flagg of Charleston, S.C. He died in Warwick, R.I., Jan. 11, 1849

The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume IV G Greene, Ray GREENE, Nathaniel, journalist, was born in Boscawen, N.H., May 20, 1797. He attended the common schools and in 1809 apprenticed himself to the proprietor of tire New Hampshire Patriot in Concord. Subsequently he became editor of the Concord Gazette, and in 1814 took the management of the New Hampshire Gazette at Portsmouth. He conducted the Haverhill, Mass., Gazette, 1815-17, and in May of the latter year established the Essex Patriot. In 1821 he removed to Boston, Mass., and there established the Boston Statesman which subsequently became the leading Democratic journal of the state. He was postmaster of Boston, 1829-40 and 1845-49. He then went to Paris, France, where he lived till 1861 engaging in literary work. On his return to the United States he made his residence in Boston. Besides numerous poems and other contributions to periodicals, mostly under the pen-name "Boscawen," he published a number of translations including: History of Italy, by G. Sforzosi (1836); Tales from the German (1837); Tales From the German. Italian and French (1843); and Improvisations (1852). He died in Boston, Mass., Nov. 29, 1877

The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume IV G Greene, Nathaniel page 403 GREENE, Nathanael, soldier, was born in Warwick, R.I., May 27, 1742; son of Nathaniel and Mary (Mott) Greene; and a descendant in the fifth generation from John Greene, a surgeon of Salisbury, England, who emigrated to America, landing in Boston in 1635, and soon after aided Roger Williams in founding Rhode Island. His father was a Quaker preacher, farmer, mill owner and iron founder. Nathanael was one of eight sons and was brought up to work in the fields, the mills, or at the forge, and to attend meetings, a walk of two miles from the homestead at Patowomut. In 1757, through a friendship formed with a college student he determined to gain a higher education, and he began the study of geometry and Latin and the reading of history. The Rev. Dr. Stiles, Lindley Murray, and a teacher by the name of Maxwell gave him assistance in his studies, and he read Watts and Locke and soon not only acquired a superior education for his opportunities, but accumulated a library of several hundred classical books. He continued his manual labor on the farm and at the forge, and in 1770 was elected to the general assembly front Coventry. The events that foreshadowed war with the mother country led him to take up the study of the art of war, and he joined the Kentish Guards for which act he was expelled from the Quaker meeting. In May, 1775, the general assembly of the state appointed him brigadier-general of the Rhode Island contingent in the army before Boston, and he joined his command June 3, 1775, and left the army when it was disbanded in 1783, after an uninterrupted service of eight years. He won Washington's confidence by the perfect discipline of his brigade stationed at Roxbury, Mass. When Boston was evacuated he was entrusted by Washington with the defence of Long Island, but was unable to take part in the battle of Aug. 27, 1776, being stricken with fever. He directed the retreat of the army and lost the day at Fort Washington by undertaking to hold the position against the advice of Washington. He was made major-general and given command of the troops in New Jersey in September, 1776. He commanded the division at Trenton with which the commander-in-chief marched in person, and Was to share with Knox the command of the Continental army in the pursuit of the British after the surprise. He also took a brilliant part at Princeton and Brandywine, and commanded the left wing at Germantown. On March 2, 1788, he was made quartermaster-general of the American army and accepted the position at the urgent request of the commander-in-chief and of the committee of congress with the proviso that in event of battle he should command his division. He commanded the right wing at Monmouth in 1778, took active direction of the battle of Tiverton Heights, R.I.; was in command of the army during Washington's absence in Hartford in September, 1780, when Arnold's treason was discovered, and was president of the court that tried André. On Oct. 14, 1780, he was appointed to the command of the southern army which had become discouraged from repeated defeat and disaster, and he soon restored confi[p.403] dence and discipline. His campaign recovered the places seized by the enemy and finally penned up the British army in Charleston. He was, however, defeated by Cornwallis at Guilford Court House, March 15, 1781. On the retreat of the army of Cornwallis toward Wilmington, N.C., General Greene turned back to recover South Carolina and was surprised by General Rawdon, April 25, at Hobkirk's Hill, S.C., but saved his army by a masterly retreat. He then laid siege to Fort Ninety-Six and afterward met and defeated the forces under Colonel Stewart at Eutaw Springs, September 8, and put an end to British domination in South Carolina and Georgia. On April 16, 1782, the news of peace reached General Greene at Charleston and soon after the army was disbanded and Greene returned North. He visited congress sitting at Princeton, N.J., and reported his administration of the affairs of the Southern army and surrendered his trust. In Princeton he met his commander-in-chief and enjoyed a renewal of a friendship that had begun at Roxbury in 1775. After a year spent with his family in Rhode Island he went south to take possession of a plantation, "Mulberry Grove," on the Savannah river which had been presented to him by the state of Georgia. He was married in July, 1774, to Catherine Littlefield of Block Island, and left five children: George Washington, Martha Washington, Cornelia Left. Nathanael Ray and Louisa Catherine. Of these George Washington accompanied LaFayette to France in 1785, and was educated under the Marquis's care as a companion of his own son also named George Washington, returning to Georgia in 1794; Martha was married to John C. Nightingale and afterward to Dr. Henry Turner of Tennessee; Cornelia was married to Peyton Skipwith and afterward to E. B. Littlefield of Tennessee; Nathanael was married to Ann Clark and settled in East Greenwich, R.I., and Louisa, born shortly after her father's death, was married to James Shaw, and settled on Cumberland island. After a few years of widowhood Mrs. Greene was married to Phinens Miller, and at her death, Sept 2, 1814, left to each of her children a competent fortune, the nucleus of which was the thanks gifts of Carolinians and Georgians to the gallant defender of their territory against British aggression. Congress presented him with a medal and a British standard for his victory at Eutaw Springs, and Rhode Island caused his statue to be placed in the rotunda of the capitol at Washington. His life was written by his grandson, George Washington Greene (3 vols., 1868-71), and by Francis Vinton Greene in Great Commanders series (1893). General Greene died at Mulberry Grove, Savannah, Ga., June 19, 1786.

The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume IV G Greene, Nathanael GREENE, John Priest, educator, was born in Scotland county, Mo., Aug. 20, 1849; son of Thomas William and Nancy (Priest) Greene. He was educated under Bartlett Anderson and at the Memphis academy and by two years' attendance at La Grange college. He was an instructor in La Grange college, 1872-75. He entered the Southern Baptist theological seminary at Greenville, S.C., in 1875, and was graduated from that institution after its removal to Louisville, Ky., in 1879. He was pastor of the East Baptist church in Louisville, 1877-79. He was a student in the University of Leipzig, Germany, 1879-80, and also travelled in Europe. He renewed the charge of the church in Louisville in 1880 and served until 1882 when he removed to St. Louis, Mo., to become pastor of the Third Baptist church in which pastorate he remained until September. 1892, when he was made president of William Jewell college. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from William Jewell college in 1885; and that of LL.D. from Colgate university, N.Y., in 1893 and from Wake Forest college, N.C., in 1894.

The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume IV G Greene, John Priest page 402 GREENE, Jacob Lyman, soldier, was born at Waterford, Maine, Aug. 9, 1837; son of Capt. Jacob H. Greene. He attended the University of Michigan, 1857-58, and engaged in the practice of law at Lapeer, Mich., until 1861 when he enlisted as a private in the 7th Michigan infantry. He was commissioned 1st lieutenant of his company in 1862 but owing to sickness, retired from the service, returning in 1863 to accept the appointment of assistant adjutant-general on Gen. George A. Custer's staff. He was captured at the battle of Trevilian Station, June 11, 1864, and was confined in Libby, Macon and Charleston prisons. He was exchanged, April 8, 1865, and joined General Custer at Burkeville, [p.402] serving with him until the close of the war. He was promoted major and brevetted lieutenant-colonel for distinguished gallantry and was mustered out of the service in April, 1866. He was agent and assistant secretary for the Berkshire life insurance company at Pittsfield, Mass., 1866-70; assistant secretary of the Connecticut Mutual life insurance company at Hartford, Conn., 1870-71, secretary, 1871-78, and succeeded President Goodwin as president of the company in 1878. He was made a director in the Connecticut trust and safe deposit company; the Connecticut society for savings; the Hartford fire insurance company and the Phoenix national bank. He became a member of the Connecticut society of the Sons of the Revolution and a trustee of the Watkins library, Hartford, Conn.

The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume IV G Greene, Jacob Lyman GREENE, Herbert Eveleth, educator, was born in Newton, Mass., Aug. 27, 1858; son of Willlain Lyman and Sarah (Eveleth) Greene, and grandson of Aaron and Mary (Miller) Greene and of John and Chloe (Gates) Eveleth. He was graduated froth Harvard in 1881, and took a graduate course in English literature and philology, receiving the degree of A.M. in 1884, and that of Ph.D. in 1888. He was professor of the English language and literature at Wells college, Aurora, New York, 1891-93, and became collegiate professor of English at Johns Hopkins university in 1893. He was chosen treasurer of the Modern Language association of America in 1896. He is the author of numerous criticisms, literary, musical and dramatic.

The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume IV G Greene, Herbert Eveleth GREENE, George Washington, educator, was born in East Greenwich, R.I., April 8, 1811; son of Nathanael and Anna Maria (Clarke) Greene. His father was the second son of Maj.-Gen. Nathanael Greene, and his mother a niece of Gov. Samuel Ward, member of the Continental congress. He entered Brown university in 1825, but left to travel in Europe for his health after he had passed his junior year. He was U.S. consul at Rome, 1837-45. He returned to the United States in 1848, and was instructor of modern languages in Brown university, 1848-52; a teacher and author in New York city, 1852-65; at East Greenwich, R.I., 1865-83; and lecturer at Cornell university on American history, 1871-73. He is the author of: Life of Gen. Nathanael Greene in Sparks's American biography (1846); Primary Lessons in French (1849); Companion to Ollendorff's French Grammar (1850); Primary Lessons in Italian (1850); History and Geography of the Middle Ages (1851); Biographical Studies (1860); Historical View of the American Revolution (1865); Life of Nathanael Greene (3 vols., 1867-71); The German Element in the War of America (1876); and Short History of Rhode Island (1877). He received the honorary degree of A.M. from Brown university in 1833, and that of LL.D. from Bowdoin in 1875. He died in East Greenwich, R.I., Feb. 2, 1883.

The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume IV G Greene, George Washington GREENE, George Sears, civil engineer, was born in Lexington, Ky., Nov. 26, 1837; son of George Sears and Martha (Dana) Greene. He was educated at Harvard, but left college before graduation in order to take a position as assistant engineer with his father, who was chief engineer of the Croton aqueduct department, New York city. He was afterward engaged in surveying various railroads in the United States and in Cuba, and in developing copper mines in the Lake Superior region. He introduced improvements in civil engineering implements that came into general use and were adopted by the U.S. coast survey. He was engineer-in-chief of the department of docks, New York city, 1875-98. He was elected a member of the American society of civil engineers in 1867; was director, 1882-90; vice-president, 1885-86, and treasurer, 1887-90.

The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume IV G Greene, George Sears page 401 GREENE, George Sears, soldier, was born in Apponaug, Warwick, R.I., May 6, 1801; son of Caleb and Sarah (Weekes) Greene; grandson of Caleb Greene, and a descendant in the sixth generation from John Greene, deputy-governor of Rhode Island. He was graduated from the U.S. military academy in 1823, second in his class, was assigned to service as brevet 2d lieutenant, 1st artillery, and was transferred to the 3d artillery. He was promoted 1st lieutenant, May 31, 1829; was assigned assistant professor of mathematics and engineering at the Military academy and afterward stationed at various artillery posts. He resigned from the army, June 30, 1836. He then engaged in railroad building and mining, and as engineer of the Croton aqueduct board of the city of New York. He served in this capa[p.401] city, 1856-62, building a new aqueduct over the High Bridge and a new reservoir in Central Park. He joined the volunteer army, Jan. 21, 1862, as colonel of the 60th New York and was promoted brigadier-general, April 28. He was brevetted major general of volunteers, March 13, 1865, for gallant and meritorious services during the war, and was honorably mustered out, April 30, 1866. His conspicuous services during the civil war were as brigade-commander at Cedar Mountain, Va., Aug. 9, 1862; as commander of the 2d division of the 12th corps at Antietam; as brigade-commander at Chancellorsville; as brigade-commander at Gettysburg, where at Culp's Hill he held with his brigade the right wing of the Army of the Potomac against the onslaught of more than a division of the Confederates and saved the position of the wing; and at Wauhatchie near Chattanooga, Oct. 28, 1863, where he was dangerously wounded. Upon recovering he joined the army at Newbern, N.C., January, 1865, and took part in the battle of Kinston, where he had a horse shot under him. He commanded a brigade at Goldsboro and in Slocum's corps in the march to Washington, D.C., where the army was disbanded. He was commissioner of the Croton aqueduct department and its chief engineer, 1867-71; and was chief engineer of public works, Washington, D.C., 1871-72. He was president of the American society of civil engineers. 1875-77; and president of the New York genealogical and biographical society. He was commissioned 1st lieutenant in the regular service, Aug. 2, 1894, and retired, August 11, under act of Aug. 1, 1894. He was married in 1837 to Martha, daughter of Samuel Dana of Charlestown, Mass., and three sons survived him; George Sears, Jr., Charles T. and Francis Vinton Greene. He was the oldest living graduate of the U.S. military academy in 1898. He died at Morristown, N.J., Jan. 28, 1899.

The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume IV G Greene, George Sears GREENE, Francis Vinton, soldier, was born in Providence, R.I., June 27, 1850; son of George Sears and Martha (Dana) Greene. He was graduated at the U.S. military academy in 1870, first in a class of fifty-eight members, and was assigned to the 4th regiment, U.S. artillery, as 2d lieutenant. He was transferred to the U.S. engineer corps, June 10, 1872, and was assistant astronomer and surveyor to the international commission for the survey of the northern boundary of the United States from the Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains, 1872 76, being promoted 1st lieutenant, Jan. 13, 1874. He was military attaché to the U.S. legation at St. Petersburg, 1877-79, and during that time was for one year with the Russian army in the field in their operations during the Russo-Turkish war, being present in the battles of Plevna, Shipka, Taskossen, Sofia, Philippepolis, and arriving in front of Constantinople with the advance guard under General Skobeleff. He received decorations from the emperor of Russia and from the Prince of Roumania. On returning to America he was assistant engineer on public works in the District of Columbia, 1879-85. He was promoted captain in the regular army, January, 1883; was instructor in practical military engineering at the U.S. military academy, 1885-86, and resigned his commission in the army, Dec. 31, 1886, to become president of the Barber asphalt paving company. He was appointed major and engineer of the 1st brigade of the National guard of New York on Dec. 18, 1889, and on Jan. 26, 1892, was elected colonel of the 71st regiment, N.G.N.Y. When the war with Spain broke out in April, 1898, this regiment volunteered for active service, and under Colonel Greene's command was immediately ordered to Florida and assigned to a brigade of regular infantry for the Cuban campaign. Colonel Greene did not accompany the regiment to Cuba, having been appointed brigadier-general on May 29, 1898, and ordered to the Philippines. He commanded the 2d expedition, numbering 4500 men, which sailed from San Francisco, June 15, and arrived in Manila Bay, July 16. Hs troops were landed in from of the Spanish trenches and were constantly engaged in fiction with the Spaniards until the capture of Manila, Aug. 13, 1898. General Greene's brigade led the advance on that day, and he was the senior officer on the first commission for arranging the articles of capitulation. For distinguished services in the Manila campaign he was promoted to the rank of major-general. He was ordered to special duty in Washington and arrived there September 29, and on completion of this duty he was assigned to command the 2d division, 7th army corps, stationed in Florida and afterward in Georgia, and in the temporary absence of General Lee was in command of the 7th army corps. On November 10 he was ordered to Havana to select camp sites for troops and make arrangements for American occupation and government. On the signing of the treaty of peace, December 10, the office of military governor of Havana was offered to him. He was succeeded by Maj.-Gen. William Ludlow in 1898, and returned to the United States and resigned his commission in 1899. In 1902 Mayor Low appointed him police commissioner of New York City. He wrote The Russian Army and its Campaigns in Turkey in 18877-78 (2 vols., 1879); Army Life in Russia (1880); The Mississippi (1888); General Greene in Great Commanders series (1893), and magazine articles on military, historical and scientific subjects

The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume IV G Greene, Frances H. page 400 GREENE, Edward Lee, botanist, was born at Hopkinton, R.I., Aug. 20, 1843; son of William Maxson and Abby Maria (Crandall) Greene; grandson of the Rev. John Greene, a well-known evangelist in New England and New York in the early part of the 19th century; and a descendant of John Greene who came from England and settled in Rhode Island in 1643. He was graduated from Albion college, Wis., Ph.B. in 1866. He was instructor in botany and German at Albion academy, Wis., in 1868; was ordained to the Episcopal ministry in 1871, and was instructor in botany at Jarvis Hall, Golden City, Col., 1871-72; and rector of churches at Greeley, Pueblo and Georgetown, Col., and at Berkeley, Cal., until 1882. He was a lecturer in botany at the University of California, 1882-83; and in 1885 he renounced the Episcopal ministry and became a Roman Catholic layman. He was instructor in botany, 1885-87; assistant professor of botany, 1887-88; associate professor of botany, 1888-90; and professor of botany, 1890-95, at the University of California; and was made professor of botany at the Catholic university of America at Washington, D.C., in 1895. He established the Pittonia in 1887, and the Erythea in 1893. He received the degree of LL.D. from the University of Notre Dame, Ind., in 1895. His [p.400] published writings include Illustrations of West American Oaks (1889-90); Flora Franciscana (1891-97) and Manual of Botany of San Francisco Bay Region (1894).

The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume IV G Greene, Edward Lee GREENE, Dascom, educator, was born in Richmond, Ontario county, N.Y., June 15, 1825; son of Benoni and Oracy (Clark), grandson of Moses and Jerusha (Wiswall), great grandson of Isaac Adams and Hannah (Pierce), great, great-grandson of Samuel and great, great, great-grandson of Benjamin Greene. His ancestors were from New England and he descended on the maternal side from Col. William Clark of the Revolutionary army. During his years in school he became impressed by the glaring defects in the methods of instruction then prevalent, and his views on that subject were afterward embodied in a series of articles on science teaching published in 1855, in which he suggested some of the improvements in methods of elementary instruction afterward adopted. His interest in that subject led him to enter upon a course of study at the Rensselaer Polytechnic institute, Troy, N.Y., the pioneer institution in the United States in the use of practical methods in higher education. He was graduated at the Institute in 1853, was assistant in mathematics, 1853-55, professor of mathematics and astronomy for thirty-eight years, 1855-93, and was made professor emeritus in 1893. From 1864 till the time of his resignation he served as librarian of the institute. In 1868 he became a member of the American association for the advancement of science. He declined an appointment to the chair of mathematics and astronomy in Lehigh university in 1874, and an informal offer of a like position at Cornell university in 1875. He was married in 1859 to Sara Irene Parsons of Utica, N.Y., who died in 1861, and their only son, William, died in 1864. He was married in 1866 to Elvira Dickerman of Troy, N.Y. Professor Greene is the author of a text-book on Spherical and Practical Astronomy (1891); Integral Calculus (1892). He died ht Troy. N.Y., Aug. 6, 1900.

The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume IV G Greene, Dascom GREENE, Christopher, soldier, was born in Warwick, R.I., May 12, 1737; son of Philip Greene, judge of the court of common pleas of Kent county. 1759-84; and a descendant of John Green, the first settler in America by that name. Christopher received a good education and represented his town in the colonial legislature, 1770-72. He was elected a lieutenant of the Kentish Guards on its organization and in May, 1775, was made major in the army of observation commanded by Gen. Nathaniel Greene. He entered the Continental service as captain of a company of infantry and he was taken prisoner while leading an assault at Quebec under Montgomery. After along imprisonment he was exchanged and was made major of the regiment commanded by Gen. J. M. Varnum and in 1777 received command of a regiment and of Fort Mercer on the Delaware which he defended against a superior force of Hessian soldiers, and for this action, Nov. 4, 1777, he was voted a sword by congress. He was on detached service under Gen. John Sullivan in Rhode Island in 1778 and in 1781 while in the advance of the Continental army he was surprised by a body of Tories under Colonel DeLancey and after defending himself valiantly for some time at the cost of several Tory lives he was overpowered and slain. He was married to Anne Lippitt, who with three sons and four daughters, survived him. He died at Croton River, Westchester county, N.Y., May 13, 1781.

The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume IV G Greene, Christopher page 399 GREENE, Charles Warren, scientist, was born in Belchertown, Mass., Aug. 17, 1840; son of William and Harriet Baker (Gavit) Greene; grandson of Ebenezer and Sibyl (Hitchcock) Greene and a descendant of Thomas Greene, probably a native of Leicestershire, England, who is supposed to have settled in Ipswich, Mass., about 1635; removed to Malden about 1650 and died in 1667. Charles was graduated from Brown in 1863; enlisted in the U.S. volunteer army, July 19, 1862, and served till July 9, 1865, rising to tire rank of captain. At the close of the war he resumed his study and was graduated from the medical department of Dartmouth in 1868. He practised his profession from 1868 to 1872, after which he devoted his time to [p.399] scientific study and literary work, directing his attention mainly to etymologic and ethographic studies after 1887. He edited Lippincott's Gazetteer (1879); Worcester's New School Dictionary (1883); and Lippincott's Biographical Dictionary (1886); and is the author of Animals; Their Homes and Habits (1886); Birds; Their Homes and Habits (1886); and numerous contributions to periodicals and encyclopædias

The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume IV G Greene, Charles Warren GREENE, Charles Gordon, journalist, was born in Boscawen, N.H., July 1, 1804. In 1813 by the death of his father he was left to the care of his brother Nathaniel, who entered him at Bradford academy under the tuition of Benjamin Greenleaf. After finishing at the academy he passed some time in apprenticeship at his brother's printing office in Haverhill, and in 1822 followed Nathaniel to Boston, Mass., and entered the office of the Statesman. In 1825 he removed to Taunton, Mass., where he managed the Free Press but returned to Boston in 1826 and published the Spectator, which he soon abandoned to resume his place in the office of the Statesman. In 1827 he published the National Palladium in Philadelphia and in 1828 the United States Telegraph in Washington, D.C. After the election of Jackson to the presidency he returned to Boston and purchased a part of the Statesman of which he became sole owner after several years. In 1831 he established the Boston Post which he conducted till 1875. He served several terms in the Massachusetts legislature, was aide to Governor Morton in 1840, was appointed naval officer of Boston by President Pierce in 1853, and by President Buchanan in 1857. He died in Boston, Mass., Sept. 27, 1886.

The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume IV G Greene, Charles Gordon GREENE, Charles Ezra, educator, was born in Cambridge, Mass., Feb. 12, 1842; son of James Diman and Sarah Adeline (Durell) Green; grandson of Bernard and Lois (Diman) Green, of Malden, Mass., and of Daniel Meserve and Elizabeth (Wentworth) Durell, of Dover, N.H.; and a descendant of James Greene, born in England, 1610, who was in Charlestown, Mass., 1634. He was graduated at Harvard in 1862, and at the Massachusetts institute of technology in 1868. He was 1st lieutenant and quartermaster, 7th U.S. colored troops, 1865-66; practised as a civil engineer, 1868-72; and in 1872 accepted the chair of civil engineering in the University of Michigan where he was made dean of the department of engineering in 1895. He was elected a member of the American society of civil engineers, Jan. 4, 1882, and also became a member of Michigan and Detroit societies of civil engineers. He was associate editor of Engineering News, 1876-77. He is the author of: Graphical Method for the Analysis of Bridge Trusses; extended to Continuous Girders and Draw Spans (1875); Graphics: Roofs, Bridges, Arches (3 vols., 1876-79); Notes on Rankine's Civil Engineering (1891); Structural Mechanics (1897); and contributions to scientific journals.

Back by popular demand, I am now posting entries with GREENE surnames. Many more GREEN ancestors were posted to the Message Board, so please check them out, also. Deloris The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume I A Anthony, John Gould page 105 ANTHONY, Henry Bowen, statesman, was born in Coventry, R.I., April 1, 1815, son of William Anthony, who managed the third cotton manufactory built in Rhode Island. His maternal grandfather, James Greene, was a member of the society of Friends and a relative of Nathaniel and Ray Greene. His first American ancestor was John Anthony, of Hampstead, Eng., who came to Boston in 1634 on the Hercules, and located in Rhode Island about 1640. The family were Quakers. Henry Bowen received a liberal education at a private school in Providence, entered Brown university in 1829 and was graduated in 1833, when he joined his brother in the manufacture of cotton in Providence, spending much of his time at Savannah, Ga., where he was a casual contributor to newspapers and magazines. In 1838 be assumed editorial charge of the Providence Journal; his success as an editor being instant and marked, and in 1840 he acquired an interest in the publication. His course in 1841-'42, during the discussions which arose in the struggle to change the government of the state, for the avowed purpose of securing an enlarged suffrage, and which brought the contestants, known as the "Dorites" and "Algerines," to the verge of civil war, was marked by courtesy, sound common sense and practicability; as champion of "Law and Order" he helped to educate public opinion, and was largely responsible for the triumph of his party. He was a genuine son of Rhode Island, and held to its traditions; thinking no change in its landmarks desirable, he wished to preserve the institutions which its history had made memorable. He desired no extension of suffrage, and no change of commercial policy. In 1837 he was married to Sarah Aborn, daughter of Christopher Rhodes of Rhode Island. In 1849 he was elected as a Whig to the governorship of the state and held the office for two years, declining a third term. On the death of his wife in 1854 he travelled in Europe, and upon his return took up his editorial work. His influence as a journalist extended beyond the borders of his own state, and his faithful labors for many years built up the Providence Journal. In 1859 the general assembly elected him United States senator, and be was re-elected five consecutive terms. He was a firm supporter of President Lincoln. He was chairman of the committee on public printing for twenty-two years, during which time the contract system was abolished and the national printing office established. He suggested many reforms and restrictive acts not carried out, and endeavored to have the public printing restricted to the legitimate demands of the government. From 1863 he served on the committee of naval affairs and was for many years its senior member. In March, 1869, he was elected president pro tempore of the senate, and re-elected in March, [p.105] 1871, serving throughout the 41st and 42d congresses; was again elected in 1883, but on account of ill health was obliged to decline. He was orator on the occasion of the presentation by the state of Rhode Island to the national government of the statues of Roger Williams and Nathaniel Greene, which were placed in Statuary Hall in the capitol at Washington. He left to Brown university the "Harris collection of American poetry," numbering about six thousand volumes. This collection was begun by Albert G. Greene, continued by Caleb Fiske Harris, and completed by Senator Anthony. His addresses, historical and memorial, were collected and privately printed in 1875. They embrace his tribute to Stephen A. Douglas, delivered in the U. S. senate July 9, 1861; to John R. Thompson, Dec. 4, 1862; to William Pitt Fessenden, Dec. 14, 1869; to William A. Buckingham, in December, 1875; to Henry Wilson, Jan. 21, 1876; and three addresses on Charles Sumner,—on the announcement of his death in the senate, on his delivery of the senator's body to the governor of Massachusetts, and on the presentation by Senator Boutwell of resolutions of respect to Mr. Sumner's memory. His address on presenting to Congress a bill to provide for repairing and protecting the monument at Newport, R. I., erected to De Tiernay, the commander of the naval forces sent out by France in 1780 to aid the revolutionary cause, was one of his most notable speeches. The president of the United States, a large number of senators and the officials of his native state and city attended the funeral. A memorial volume was published by the general assembly of the state of Rhode Island in 1885. The date of his death was Sept. 2, 1884.