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HERRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OP AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Bartholomew, printer, 'joumalist, Oct. 13, 1666, in Cambridge, Mass.

In 1704 he issued the

first

number

of the

Boston News Letter, which for fifteen years was the only newspaper in the colonies. For about forty years he was printer for the government; and was the foremost publisher in Boston. He died Dec. 28, 1732, in Boston, Mass. Green, Beriah, reformer, author, was born in 1794 in New York state. He was a reformer and anti-slavery leader of Ohio and New York. He was the author of History of the Quakers; and Sermons and Discourses. He died May 4, 1874, in Whitestown, N.Y. Green, Bernard R., civil engineer, was bom Dec. 28, 1843, in Maiden, Mass. He was educated at the Lawrence scientific school

Harvard university. For fourteen years he was engaged with ofof

of the United States corps of engineers in constructing permanent sea coast fices

fortifications of

Ohio. His hektograph is said to be the best invention ever used for reproducing writings and facsimile copies. In 1889 he was elected president of the Washington City and Point Lookout railway company.

Green,

Charles

and

f'

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Washington public library and the new national museum building; and also two of the principal hotels. He is now superintendent of the congressional library building and grounds at Washington, D.C. Green, Byram, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in New York. He served five years in the New York state assembly; and in 1.843-45 he was a representative to the twenty-eighth congress; and was subsequently judge of a county court. He died Oct. 18, 1865, in Sodus, N.Y. Green, Caleb Smith, lawyer, jurist, banker, was born Feb. 18, 1819, in Lawrenceville, N.J. He gained a large and profitable practice; and in 1873-84 was a judge of the court of errors and appeals. He died Feb. 19, 1891, in Trenton, N..J. Green, Charles, naval officer, was born in 1814 in Connecticut. He entered the United States navy in 1826; and became commodore in 1867. He died on April 7, 1887, in Providence, R.I. Green, Charles Gordon, joumalist, publisher, founder, was born on July 1, 1804, in Boscawen, N.H. He was editor of the National Palladium of Philadelphia in 1827; the Boston Statesman in 1829; and was the founder and editor of the Boston Morning Post. He died Sept. 27, 1886, in Boston. Green, Charles Henry, business man, inventor, was bom Oct. 21, 1837, in Dayton,

In 1888-90 he was professor of the latin language and literature at Alfred imiversity; in 1893-94 Ph.D.

was instructor

Massachusetts and since then has been in charge of the erection

of congress, the

antiquarian,

and

Maine,

D.C., including the state, war and navy buildings, Washington monument, the Army medical museum and library, the United States soldiers' home buildings, the library

soldier,

Green, David L., educator, social economist, was bora Feb. 5, 1864,- in Independence, N.Y. In 1885 he graduated from Alfred university; has received the degrees of A.M.

New Hampshire and

of large public buildings i n Washington,

R.,

genealogist, author, was born Nov. 8, 1845, in Milan, Ohio. During the civil war he was a private in the one hundred and first regiment Ohio infantry, army of the Cumberland, and served three years. He eventually settled in Kansas; and is interested in horticulture near Lyndon. He is a member He of the Kansas state historical society. is the author of Genealogy of Ezra Green.

in soat Johns university;

science

cial

Hopkins and in 1894-96 was a teacher in the Hartford school of sociology. Since 1894 he has been superintendent of the charity organization society of Hartford, Conn.; and since 1900 has also been a lecturer at the Hartford theological seminary.

Green,

Duff,

lawyer,

journalist,

author,

was born Aug. 15, 1791, in Kentucky. He was the author of Facts and Suggestions; and How to Pay off the National Debt. He died June 10, 1875, in Dalton, Ga.

Green, Edward Howland Robinson, railroad president, capitalist, was born Aug. 23, 1868, in London, England; and is the son of Mrs. Hetty Green, the richest woman in America. He graduated from Fordham college of

and

New

York;

subsequently he

studied law in Qiicago. 111. After admission to the bar, he

entered

the

service,

and

railway

served

consecutively as clerk, foreman, superintendent and general manager; and is to-day the youngest railroad president in the world, being president of the Texas Midland railroad, residing at Terrell. He is a director and stockholder in numerous banks, and personally looks after his mother's vast real estate interests in the west and southwest. He is serving his second term as chairman of the repub-