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.