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 HERRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Duluth and Iron Range railroad at Duluth, Minn. Greble, Edwin St. John, soldier, was born June 35, 1859, in West Point, ST.Y. In 1881 he graduated from the United States military academy; and was assigned second lieutenant. In 1887 he became first lieutenant; was made captain in 1899; and served through the Spanish-American war. In 1901-04 he was senior instructor in artillery at the United States military acad-

emy; since 1906 has been on detached duty; and in 1900 was promoted to lieutenantcolonel.

Greble, John Trout, soldier, was born Jan. In 1861 he 1834, in Philadelphia, Pa. was sent to .Newport News as master of 19,

ordnance; superintended the fortifications of that point; and trained the volunteers to artillery practice. in Big Bethel, Va.

He

died June 10, 1861,

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Greeley, Edwin Seneca, soldier, merchant, banker, was born May 30, 1833, in Nashua, N.H. In 1855 he settled in New Haven, Conn. He learned the machinist trade. At the beginning of the civil war he entered the union army as first lieutenant; advanced through all intermediate grades to colonel of the famous tenth regiment of Connecticut volunteers; and was brevetted brigadier-general for gallant and meritorious service. He became president -general of the national society sons of the American revolution.

Greeley, Horace, journalist, statesman, congressman, author, was bom Feb. 3, 1811, in Amherst, N.H. In 1831 he obtained work

journeyman

as a printer in New York In 1834, in conCity. nection with Jonas

Winchester, he started t h e New Yorker, a weekly journal of literature and general b eintelligence, came its editor; after struggling on several

and

years the journal was abandoned. During its existence, Mr. Greeley published several political campaign papers, the Constitution, the Jeifersonian, and the Log Cabin. In 1841 he commenced the publication of the New York Tribune, and in 1848-49 he was a representative to the thirtieth congress to fill a vacancy. In 1851 he visited Europe, and was chosen chairman of one of the juries at the world'sfair; gave an account of his travels in a series of letters to the Tribune, which were afterWards collected into a volume. He also published a collection of his addresses, essays, Re•etc., under the title of Hints Toward forms; and a work entitled The American "Conflict. In 1864 he served as a presidential elector; was a delegate to the Philadelphia loyalists' convention of 1866, and to the

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state constitutional convention of 1867. He of those who gave bail for Jefferson Davis in May, 1867. In 1873 he was nominated by the conservative party for the oflSce of president, but was defeated. His most popular book was Recollections of a Busy Life, He died Nov. 39, 1873, near Pleasantville, N.Y.

was one

Greely, Adolphus Washington, soldier, explorer, meteorologist, author, was on March 27, 1844, in Newburyport, Mass. In 1861-63 he was in the volunteer service in

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company B, nineteenth Massachusetts

in-

fantry; and then entered the United States regular army as second lieutenant. He is an arctic explorer in the United States service. In 1887 he was appointed chief of the signal service corps, with the rank of brigadier-general, and was thus at the head of the weather bureau until its transfer to the department of agriculture in 1891, and is now chief signal officer United States army. He is the author of Three Years of Arctic Service; American Weather; Handbook of Arctic Discoveries; and Explorers

and Travelers. Green, Alexander Little Page, clergyman, author, was born June 6, 1806, in Sevier county, Tenn. He was a methodist clerHe was the of Nashville, Tenn. author of The Church in the Wilderness. He died July 15, 1874, in Nashville, Tenn. Green, Allen Ayrault, journalist, author, was born March 11, 1880, in Williamsport, Pa. Since 1904 he has been associate editor of the Advance of Chicago, 111. He devised an electrical mechanical outfit by which a train of cars going at full speed He is the can take its own photograph. author of My Painted Tree and Other Poems; The Making of a Ste^m Engine; of The Good Fairy and the Bunnies; and The Land of Lost.

gyman

Green,

Andrew Haswell, lawyer,

was born Oct. 6, 1830, During his career in

trustee, in Worcester, Mass.

New York

City he

many

positions as trustee and executor of estates; and among the latter that He was a commisof Samuel J. Tilden. sioner of education and president of the board in 1856; was president of the central park board in 1857-70; and was comptroller of the city in 1871-76. He died in 1903 in filled

New York

City.

Green, Arthur Lawrence, educator, scientSept. 18, 1857, in Newark, Since 1888 he has been professor of chemistry in Purdue university. ist,

was born

Ohio.

Green, Ashbel, clergyman, college presiauthor, was born July 6, 1763, in Hanover, N.J. He was a presbyterian clergyman; and president of Princeton college in 1813-32. He was the author of Sermons from 1790 to 1836; Sermons on the Assembly's Catechism; and History of Presbyterian Missions. He died May 19, 1848, in Philadelphia, Pa. dent,