Page:Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography (1900, volume 2).djvu/783

Rh whose loyalty he doubted, and, with a small force, left the main body of troops and attacked the town of Mier. The battle was disastrous to the Texans, and 193 officers and men were taken pris- oners. In attempting to escape, they were recap- tured, taken to the ciity of Mexico, and every tenth man was ordered to be shot by Santa-Anna. Green was kept a prisoner at hard labor till 16 Sept., 1844, when, with 103 others, he was released. He removed to California several years later, served in the state senate, and was major-general of militia. When the civil war began he entered the Confed- erate array, and was engaged in the early Virginia campaigns. He published "The Mier Expedition" (New York, 1845). — His son, Wharton Jackson, politician, b. in St. Mark's, Fla.,about 1840, was educated at Harvard, the U. S. military academy, and the universities of Virginia and Cumberland, Tenn. He visited Europe in 1858, and on his return settled as a planter in Warren county, N. C. He served throughout the civil war in the Confederate army as lieutenant-colonel of a North Carolina regiment, was wounded at Washington, N. C., and Gettysburg, and imprisoned at the close of the war at Johnson's island. He was a delegate to the Democratic national convention of 18(58, and was elected to congress in 1882, and re-elected in 1884.

GREEN, Traill. chemist, b. in Easton, Pa.. 25 May, 1813 ; d. there, 29 April. 1897. He was gradu- ated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1835, was for a year physician to the Philadelphia dis- pensary, and then settled in Easton, where he afterward practised. In 1837 he was elected pro- fessor of general and applied chemistry in La- fayette, and four years later was called to the chair of natural sciences in Marshall college, where he remained until 1847. He returned during the same year to Easton, resuming his chair in Lafay- ette, which he afterward occupied. At his own expense he erected an observatory there, and on the establishment of the Pardee scientific depart- ' ment of Lafayette he became its dean. Dr. Green held several state appointments in connection with hospitals and similar work, and was for some time president of the school board at Easton. He was a member of many scientific societies, was president of the Pennsylvania medical socie(y in 1868, and first president of the American academy of medi- cine. He delivered tlie annual address before the medical department of the University of Pennsyl- vania in 1880, and received the degree of LL. D. from Washington and Jefferson colleges in 1866.

GREEN, William Alexander, physician, b. in Augusta, Ga., 5 Jan., 1834. He spent his early life as a clerk in a drug-store, devoting his spare hours to the study of medicine. In 1857 he was gradu- ated from the Augusta medical college. He then settled in Americus, Ga., and remained there till 1861, when he entered the Confederate army. He afterward became surgeon, and then chief surgeon of artillery in the 3d army corps, on the staff of Gen. D. P. Hill, where he remained till the surren- der of Lee. He served on many battle-fields, and was the first to bring to the notice of the medical authorities in the field the operation for resection. He was the inventor of a hypodermic syringe, the designer of a hypodermic syringe-needle, and of Green's " pocket-cases." He introduced many new remedies hypodermically, and gave much attention to pharmacy and chemistry. After the war he returned to Americus, and in 1875 removed to Macon. He has published many articles in medical journals, and is the author of papers on the " Small- Pox," " Vaccination and its Results," and " The Use of the Hypodermic Syringe."

GREEN, William Henry, clergyman, b. in Groveville, Burlington co.. N. J., 37 Jan., 1825- d. in Princeton, N. J., 4 May, 1896. He was graduated at Lafayette in 1840, studied theologv at Princeton, where he became a teacher in 1846. and was ordained in 1848. He became pastor of the Central Presbyterian church in Philadelphia in 1849. and after 1851 was professor of Hebrew and Old Testament literature in Princeton theological seminary. He was chairman of the Old Testament company of the American committee for the revision of the Bible. In 1868 he declined the presidency of Princeton. He published "Hebrew Grammar" (New York, 1861); " Hebrew Chrestomathy " (1863) : '• The Pentateuch Vindicated from the Aspersions of Colenso " (1863) ; "The Argument of the Book of Job Unfolded" (1874): "Moses and the Prophets" (1883); and " The Hebrew Feasts " (1885).

GREEN, William Mercer, P. E. bishop, b. in Wilmington, N. C, 2 May, 1798 ; d. in Sewanee, Tenn., 13 Feb., 1887. His father, a wealthy rice- planter, died when his son was a boy. On his mother's side he was of Quaker origin, and owed much to the example and strict discipline which she furnished and enforced. He was graduated at the University of North Carolina in 1818, and studied theology. He was ordered deacon in Christ church, Raleigh, N. C, bv Bishop R. C. Moore, 29 April. 1821, and ordained priest in St. James's church, Wilmington, N. C. 20 April, 1822, by the same bishop. He became rector of St. John's church, Williamsborough, in 1821. Four years later he removed to Hillsborough and became rector of St. Matthew's church, which was founded by him. In 1837 he was appointed chaplain and professor of belles-lettres in the University of North Carolina. He received the degree of D. D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1845. Dr. Green was elected to be the first bishop of the diocese of Mississippi in 1849, and was consecrated in St. An- drew's church, Jackson, Miss., 24 Feb., 1850. Bisliop Green devoted himself to his work with energy, but after thirty-three years of faithful service was com- pelled, by the infirmities of age, to avail himself of the aid of an assistant (1883). He was among the earliest and most earnest founders of the University of the South, at Sewanee, Tenn., in 1860. In 1867 he became its chancellor. Bishop Green printed a few sermons on " Baptismal Regeneration " and " Apostolic Succession," and also an oral ion on " The Infiuence of Christianitv upon the Welfare of Nations" (Hillsborough, N." C, 1831); but his chief publications were a brief " Memoir of the Right Reverend Bishop Ravenscroft. of North Caro- lina " (1830), and a " Life of the Right Reverend Bishop Otev, of Tennessee" (New York. 1886).

GREENE, Albert Gorton, lawyer, b. in Providence, R. I., 10 Feb., 1802; d. in Cleveland, Ohio, 4 Jan., 1868. He was graduated at Brown in 1820, studied law with John Whipple. and was admitted to the bar in 1823. He practised in Providence, where, in 1832, he was elected clerk of the city council, and clerk of the municipal court, which