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Rh zens of Philadelphia. The press commented favor- ably on Mr. Green's good sense and good nature during the discussion, and the three days' argu- ment was published in most of the newspapers and some of the periodicals of that date. He has pub- lished " Gambling Unmasked, an Autobiography " (Philadelphia, 1847), and " Secret Band of Broth- ers " (1847). He was living in Philadelphia in 1887.

GREEN, Joseph, poet, b. in Boston, Mass., in 1700 ; d. in London, England, 11 Dec, 1780. He was graduated at Harvard in 1726, and espoused the patriot cause ; in 1760 he was one of the fifty- eight Boston memorialists who arrayed themselves against the crown, and in 1764 a member of the com- mittee with Samuel Adams to report instructions to the Boston representatives. He changed his politi- cal views, however, on the prospect of the war, and was appointed in 1774, by Gov. Thomas Gage, one of the " mandamus " council for remodelling the government of Massachusetts in order to curtail the rights of the colonists. He did not take the oath of office, but signed the loyal address ap- proving Gov. Hutchinson's political course, and in 1776 was proscribed and banished. Green was re- garded as the wit of his day, and his political lam- poons, in which he satirized first one and then the other party, gave him a wide celebrity. His works include " The Wonderful Lament of Old Mr. Ten- or," written after the change in currency (Boston, 1744), and " Poems and Satires" (1780).

GREEN, Joseph F., admiral, b. in Maine, 24 Nov., 181 1 : d. in Brookline, Mass., 9 Dec, 1897. He was appointed midshipman, 1 Nov., 1827, and pro- moted, 10 .Tune, 1883. He was commissioned lieu- tenant, 28 Feb., 1888. and throughout the Mexican war was attached to the ship-of-line " Ohio," of the Pacific squadron, and took part in all the impor- tant actions on the Pacific coast. From 1850 till 1858 he served at the Boston navy-yard on ord- nance duty, and at the naval academy. He was commissioned commander, 14 Sept., 1855, captain in 1862, commanded the steam sloop " Canan- daigua," of the South Atlantic blockading squad- ron, in 1862-'4, and participated in the bombard- ment of Fort Wagner, 18 July, 1863. From 1866 till 1868 he was on ordnance duty at the Boston navy-yard, and was commissioned as commodore, 24 July, 1867. He was assigned to special duty in 1869. commanded the southern squadron of the Atlantic fleet in 1870, was commissioned rear-admi- ral the same year, and retired 25 Nov., 1872.

GREEN, Louis Warner, educator, b. in Boyle county, Ky., 28 Jan., 1806 ; d. in Danville, Ky., 26 March, 1863. He was graduated at Centre college, Ky., in 1830, and at the Princeton theological seminary in 1832. He was then licensed to preach and appointed professor in Centre college, and, after remaining there two years, went to Europe, where he spent some months in study. On his re- turn, Mr. Green was appointed vice-president of Centre college, and professor of belles-lettres, and at the same time was associate pastor of the Pres- byterian church in Danville. He was afterward elected to the chair of oriental literature in the Western theological seminary at Alleghany, Pa., where he remained for seven yeai's. He then be- came pastor of the 2d Presbyterian church in Baltimore, and in 1848 was chosen president of Hampden Sidney college, where he remained until 1856. In that year he removed to Kentucky, and was president of the State normal school. He after- ward accepted the presidency of Centre college, and returned to Danville.

GREEN, Martin E., soldier, b. in Lewis county. Mo., about 1825 ; d. in Vicksburg, Miss., 27 June, 1863. At the beginning of the civil war he or- ganized a regiment near Paris, Mo., and, join- ing Gen. Sterling Price, contributed largely to the success of the Confederates in the capture of Lex- ington, Mo., and the Union garrison commanded by Col. James A. Mulligan. He ordered his men to roll hemp-bales up the river-bank, which formed movable breastworks. After this battle he was appointed brigadier - general, served with Gen. Price throughout the Missouri campaign, and was conspicuous for bravery in the battles of Farming- ton, luka, Corinth, and Baker's Creek.

GREEN, Norvin, capitalist, b. in New Albany, Ind., 17 April, 1818; d. in Louisville, Ky., 12 Feb., 1893. He was graduated in medicine in 1840, and afterward served three terms in the Kentucky legislature. He became president of the South- western telegraph company about 1854, was after- ward vice-jji'esident of the American and Western union companies, and in 1878 succeeded William Orton as president of the last-named corporation. Dr. Green was also president of the Louisville, Cincinnati, and Lexington railroad in 1869-'73.

GREEN, Samuel, printer, b. in England, in 1615 ; d. in Cambridge, Mass., 1 Jan., 1702. He was one of the first printers in New England, being the successor of Stephen Daye {q. v.). He printed the " Cambridge Platform " in 1649, and a revised edi- tion of the Psalms in 1650. In October, 1658, Green was granted by act of legislature 300 acres of land, " where it is to be found." It was subse- quently laid out for him in flaverhill. In 1655 a second press arrived from England, and in 1659 he printed a version of the Psalms in the Indian tongue. In 1661 the New Testament was issued ; and in 1663 the entire Old and New Testament, with the New England Psalms in Indian verse, trans- lated by Rev. John Eliot (q. v.), was published in the dialect of the Nipmuck or Natick Indians. A second edition of the Indian Bible was printed in 1685. Green continued printing to an advanced age. He had nineteen children, and, although his descendants were nearly all printers, there was no printing done in Cambridge for many years after his death. — His son. Bartlioloniew, printer, b. in Cambridge, Mass., 12, Oct., 1666; d. in Boston, Mass., 28 Dec, 1732, succeeded to his father's business. He first set up his press in Cambridge, and afterward at Boston, where it was destroyed by fire, 16 Sept., 1690. In the winter of 1692-'3 he resumed business in Boston. On 24 April, 1704, he issued the first number of the "Boston News Letter," which was continued by him during his life. It was printed weekly, and published " by au- thority " of John Campbell, postmaster, who was the proprietor. It became the property of Green eighteen years afterwai'd, and for fifteen years was the only newspaper in the colonies. The contents of the first number, covering three pages of folio post, were extremely meagre, and it contained but one advertisement, that of the proprietor. Green endeavored to avoid partisan discussions of the religious and political quarrels of the times. " The Design of this Paper " said his prospectus " is not merely to Amuse the Reader, much less to Gratify any ill tempers by Reproach or Ridicule, to Pro- mote Contention, or Espouse any Party among us." For about forty years Green was printer for the government, and the foremost publisher in Boston. It was said of him at his death that he "had much of that primitive Christianity which has always been the distinguishing glory of New England." After his death the "News Letter" was carried on by his son-in-law, John Draper, and then by the latter's son Richard {q. v.).