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Rh '''GREEN. Francis Mathews''', naval officer, b. in Boston, Mass., 28 Feb., 1885. He early became a seaman, and in June, 18(51, was appointed acting master in the U. S. navy, and attached to the sloop '• Vincennes," of the West Gulf squadron. Subse- quently he saw active service at the passes of the Mississippi, served on the sloop " Oneida," and commanded the steamer " Commodore." In April, 1864, he was promoted to acting volunteer lieuten- ant, and served on special duty on the "Niagara." Later he commanded the " Boxer," and partici- pated in the capture of Port Fisher. After the close of the war he was transferred to the regular navy, and in December, 1868, was commissioned lieutenant-commander. From 1873 till 1888 he was connected with five expeditions for determin- ing exact latitudes and longitudes in various parts of the world. In July, 1888, he was made com- mander, and after some time spent on shore duty was given command of the " Yantic." Com- mander Green has been associated in the publica- tion of government reports, such as " Navigation of the Caribbean Sea " (1877) : " A Report on Telegraphic Determination of Longitudes in the West Indies and Central America" (1877); similar reports for South America (1880), and the East Indies, China, and Japan (1883), and a work on " Geographical Positions " (1883).

GREEN, Horace, physician, b. in Crittenden, Rutland co., Vt., 24 Dec, 1802 ; died in Sing Sing, N. Y., 29 Nov., 18G6. He was educated at the high- school at Brandon and the classical school of Rut- land, Vt., and in 1824 was graduated in medicine in Middlebury. He began practice in Rutland, and after several years went abroad, and studied in the hospitals of Edinburgh, London, and Paris, making a specialty of the diseases of the throat and air-passages. He was elected, on his return, to the chair of these diseases in the Medical col- lege of Castleton, Vt., and remained there until his removal to New York city in 1850. He revisited the hospitals in Paris in 1851, and on his return was elected to the chair of the theory and practice of medicine in the New York medical college. He •assisted in establishing the " American Medical Monthly " in 1854, and became one of its editors. His health failing in 1860, he resigned his profes- sorship and went to Cuba, dying of a lingering pulmonary disease. The degree of LL. D. was con- ferred on him by the University of Vermont. His works are "A Treatise on the Diseases of the Air- Passages " (New York, 1846) ; " Pathology and Treatment of Croup " (1849) : " Surgical Treat- ment of the Polypi of the Larynx " (1852) ; " Re- port of a Hundred Cases of Pulmonary Diseases " (1858) ; and '• Selections from the Favorite Prescrip- tions of Living American Physicians" (1858).

GREEN, Jacob, patriot, b. in Maiden, Mass., 22 June, 1722; d. in Morristown, N. J., 24 May, 1796. His parents were poor and he was appren- ticed to a trade in order to meet his college ex- penses. He was graduated at Harvard in 1744, and under the influence of George Whitefield be- came a clei'gyman in 1745, and was installed pastor of the Presbyterian church in Morristown, N. J. To support his family he also studied and practised medicine while occupying this pulpit. In 1757 he was elected president of the College of New Jersey. He was a delegate to the Provincial congress of that state in 1775, was chairman of the committee that drafted the state constitution, and wrote a series of articles on the depreciation of paper currency, which had wide circulation. His suggestions re- garding the redemption of continental currency were much the same as were those afterward adopted by congress. Mr. Green's published works are "Sermons" (Philadelphia, 1768); "Sermons" (1769) ; " A Pamphlet on the Jewish Church " (1768) ; and an " Autobiography," which was pub- lished in " The Christian Advocate " by his son. — His son, Aslibel, clergyman, b. in Hanover, Morris CO., N. J., 6 July, 1762 ; d. in Philadelphia, 19 May, 1848, taught to acquire the means to attend college, but in 1778 his studies were interrupted by the Revolutionary war, in which he served as a sergeant until the spring of 1782. He then entered Prince- ton, was graduated in 1784, and the next year was appointed tutor, and afterward became professor of mathematics and natural philosophy. In 1786 he was licensed to preach by the presljytery of New Brunswick, and the next year was installed pastor of the 2d Pi-esbyterian church of Philadelphia. He was a delegate to the general assembly of his church in 1790, and moved a renewal of communi- cations between this and the Congregational church. In 1792 he was appointed chaplain to congress. The Princeton college buildings were destroyed by fire in 1802, and when it was rebuilt. Dr. Green, who had been one of its trustees since 1790, was elected its president in 1812. The same year the title of LL. D. was given him by the University of North Carolina, and he was elected president of the board of trustees of Princeton theological seminary. He resigned the presidency of Princeton in 1822, and removed to Philadelphia, where he edited " The Christian Advocate " for twelve years, and during a portion of the time " The Assembly's Magazine." During this period he frequently supplied vacant pulpits. He was a voluminous writer. His prin- cipal works are " Discourse delivered in the College of New Jersey, with a History of the College " (Boston, 1822); " Presbyterian" ^Missions " (1820); "Sermons on the Assemlilv's Catecliisni " (1818); " Sermons from 1790 to l'886 '" (1886) ; and " Re- ports and Addresses from 1793 to 1886 " (1837). He also edited Dr. Witherspoon's. works, and an autobiography of Jacob Green (Philadelphia, 1802). — Ashbel's son, Jacob, scientist, b. in Philadelphia, 26 July, 1790; d. there, 1 Feb., 1841, in his boyhood developed a taste for botany, and made a large col- lection of plants. At an early age he wrote a treatise on electricity which gave him a reputation. In 1806 he was graduated at the University of Pennsylvania, studied law, and began practice, but accepted in 1818 the chairs of chemistry, experi- mental philosophy, and natural history, in Prince- ton. In 1822 he became professor of chemistry in Jefferson medical college, where he remained until his death. He is the author of " Chemical Dia- grams " ; " Chemical Philosophy " (Philadelphia, 1829) ; " Astronomical Recreations " (1829) ; '• A Syllabus of a Course of Chemistry " (1835) ; "Trilobites" (2 vols., 1832); "The Botany of the United States" (1838); "Notes of a Traveller" (1881) : and " Diseases of the Skin " (1841).

GREEN, James Stephen, politician, b. in Fauquier county, Va., 28 Feb., 1817 ; d. in St. Louis, Mo., 9 Jan., 1870. He received a common-school education, removed to Alabama, and afterward to Missouri, where he was admitted to the bar, and began to practise at Canton. He was presidential elector on the Polk and Dallas ticket in 1844, and was elected to congress as a Democrat, serving from 1847 till 1851. Pie was charge d'affaires in the United States of Columbia in 1858, and was appointed consul in 1854, but did not act in that capacity. On his return in 1856 he was again elected representative to congress, bi;t did not take his seat, having been chosen to the U. S. senate, where he served from 1857 till 1861. He bore a