GREENE, William Batchelder, author, was born at Haverhill, Mass., April 4, 1819; son of Nathaniel Greene. He entered the U.S. military academy in 1835, but left to take an active part in the Florida war. He was commissioned 2d lieutenant in the 7th infantry in July, 1839, and resigned from the service in November, 1841. Later he was interested in the Brook Farm community, studied theology, and was graduated in 1845 from the Harvard divinity school. He was pastor of a Unitarian church in Brook field, Mass., for several years and then went to Europe At the beginning of the civil war he returned to the United States and was commissioned colonel of the 14th Massachusetts infantry. In 1862 he was appointed to the command of the artillery brigade of General Whipple's division, and on October 11 of the same year he resigned his command and returned to Boston and subsequently went to England. He was a delegate to the constitutional convention of Massachusetts in 1853 and was interested in various reform movements. He was a student of mathematics, of Hebrew literature and of Egyptian antiquities. He contributed to periodicals, published a number of discourses in pamphlet form and is also the author of: Remarks on the Science of History followed by an a priori Autobiography (1849); Theory of the Calculus (1870); and Socialistic, Communistic, Mutualistic and Financial Fragments (1875). He died at Weston-super Mare, Eng., May 30. 1878.