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.