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.