Following Messages are mini-biographies of some famous people surnamed GREEN. Perhaps they can help someone doing research on them. The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume IV G Greene, Albert Collins GREEN, William Mercer, first bishop of Mississippi and 51st in succession in the American episcopate, was born in Wilmington, N.C., May 2, 1798. His father was a wealthy rice-planter and his mother was of Quaker origin. He was graduated at the University of North Carolina in 1818, receiving his A.M. degree in 1833; studied theology under Bishop R. C. Moore and was ordained deacon in the Protestant Episcopal church, April 21, 1821, and priest, April 20, 1822. He was rector of St. Jonn's church at Williamsborough, 1821-25; of St. Matthew's church at Hillsborough, which he founded, 1825-37; was chaplain and professor of rhetoric and logic in the University of North Carolina, 1837-49, and bishop of the diocese of Mississippi, 1850-87. He was consecrated bishop at St. Andrew's Church, Jackson, Miss., Feb. 24, 1850, by bishops Otey, Polk, Cobbs and Freeman. On Feb. 24, 1883, the Rev. Hugh Miller Thompson was made assistant bishop of the diocese at the request of Bishop Green who had given thirty-three years to the administration of the affairs of the diocese Bishop Green was one of the original founders of the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn. in 1857, a trustee, 1857-67, and chancellor and president of the board of trustees, 1867-87. He received the honorary degrees of D.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and LL.D. from the University of Virginia in 1848, and that of LL.D. from the University of the South in 1878. He published, besides sermons and orations: Memoir of the Rt. Rev. Bishop Ravenscroft (1830) and Life of the Rt. Rev. Bishop Otey (1886). He died at Sewanee, (Jackson Co.) Tenn., Feb. 13, 1887 Deloris Williams