GREENE, Albert Gorton, jurist, was born in Providence, R.I., Feb. 10, 1802; son of John Holden and Elizabeth (Beverly) Greene; grandson of Thomas Rice and Mary (Briggs) Greene, and a descendant of John Greene, a contemporary of Roger Williams who with Samuel Gotten settled Warwick, R.I. He prepared for college at the university grammar school in Providence, and was graduated from Brown in 1820. He was admitted to the bar in 1823, and opened an office in Providence where he was clerk of the city council, 1832-67; clerk of the municipal court, 1832-57; and judge of the municipal court, 1858-67. He drafted the original school bill of Rhode Island, was one of the founders of the Providence Athenæum, and president of the R.I. historical society, 1854-68. He was a student of English literature, and at the time of his death possessed a large private library. His collection of American poetry finally passed to Brown university. In 1824 he was married to Mary Ann, daughter of Benjamin Clifford of Providence. One of their daughters became the wife of the Rev. Dr. Samuel White Duncan, and when Judge Greene resigned from the municipal bench in 1867, he removed to his daughter's home in Cleveland, Ohio. Judge Greene edited Thomas Dring's Recollections of the Jersey Prison Ship (1829), and the Literary Journal (1833). Besides articles in periodicals he is the author of the poems Old Grimes, the Militia Muster. Adelheid, The Baron's Last Banquet, and Canonchet. He died in Cleveland, Ohio, Jan. 3, 1868. Deloris Williams