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 HBRRINGSHAWS LIBRABY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. lican party of Texas; in 1900 was delegate at large to the republican national convention; and has been tendered the nomination for governor on various occasions. He organized and is president of the famous Tar-

pon

club.

Green, Edwin L., educator, author, was born Dec. 18, 1870, in Milton, Fla. Since 1900 he has been adjunct professor of ancient languages at the South Carolina college. He is the author of School History of Florida.

Green, Ernest Sherman, journalist, poet, bom April 30, 1866, in Waseca, Minn. He is the editor of Mexican and South American poems. He is the author of a volume entitled Poems of the Past, Present and Future. Green, Ezra, soldier, physician, was born June 17, 1746, in Maiden, Mass. In 1775 he joined the continental army as surgeon. He was a delegate to the New Hampshire constitutional convention of 1820. He died

was

July 25, 1847, in Dover, N.H. Green, Francis, merchant, author, was born Sept. 1, 1742, in Boston, Mass. He joined the army as an ensign after the beginning of the French war. He was sheriff of the county of Halifax and senior judge of the court of common pleas. He returned to Massachusetts in 1797, and settled in Medford. He was the author of The Art of Impairing Speech; and a translation of the Letters of Abbe de I'Epge. He died April 21, 1809, itf Medford, Mass. Green, Francis Mathews, naval officer, author, was born Feb. 23, 1835, in Boston, Mass. He was a United States naval commander; and in 1873-83 was connected with five expeditions for determinating exact latitudes and longitudes in various parts of the world. He was the author of The Navigation of the Caribbean Sea; Telegraphic Determination of Longitudes; and List of Geographical Positions. He died in 1902 in Washington, D.C. Green, Harry H., soldier, clergyman, poet, was born March 13, 1839, in England. He enlisted as a private in company I, second regiment Iowa volunteer infantry; and w a s commissioned a captain of his company. Since 1865 he

has

filled

important

pastorates methodist

in the

episcopal church. He served as a representative in the Iowa state legislature on the prohibition issue. He was appointed presiding elder of the Dubuque district for six years, and in 1890 was re-appointed presiding elder and placed on the Decorah district. Green, Frank Russell, painter, artist, was born April 16, 1859,' in Chicago, 111. He is

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an associate of the national academy of design. He is a genre painter; and a member of the American water color society. Green, Frederick W., congressman, was born in Maryland. In 1851-55 he was a representative from Ohio to the thirty- sec-

ond and thirty-third congresses.

He

died

in Ohio.

Green, George, lawyer, jurist. In 184955 he was an associate justice of the supreme court of Iowa. Green, George Walton, lawyer, author, was born in 1854 in New York. He practices law in New York City. He is the author of Repudiation. Green, Henry, lawyer, jurist, was born Aug. 29, 1828, in Warren county, N.J. In 1849 he was' admitted to the practice of law; and practiced until 1879 in Easton, Pa. In 1879-1900 he was an associate justice of the supreme court of Pennsylvania. He died Aug. 16, 1900, in Atlantic City, N.J. Green, Henry Dickinson, soldier, lawyer, journalist, state senator, congressman, was born May 3, 1857, in Reading, Pa. He has attained success in the practice of law in his native city. He was a representative in the Pennsylvinia state legislature in 188386; and a member of the state senate in

1889-96. During the Spanish-American war he was captain of company G, ninth regiment Pennsylvania volunteers. He is editor of the Telegram of Reading, Pa. In 18991903 he was a representative from Pennsylvania to the fifty-sixth and fifty-seventh congresses as a democrat. Green, Henry, Woodhull, lawyer, jurist, state legislator, was born Sept. 20, 1804, in

Lawrenceville, N.J. He was a member of the New Jersey legislature in 1843; of the constitutional convention of 1844; and was

afterward chancery reporter.

He was

chief

supreme court in 1846when he became chancellor. He died

justice of the state 53,

Dec. 19, 1876, in Trenton, N.J.

Green, Horton Buxton, educator, clergyman, composer, was born Oct. 20, 1852, in Johnstown, Ohio. In 1852 he moved with his parents to Carroll county, 111. He receiv-

ed his

the rudiments of education in the

common

schools,

and

attended the Northern college of Fulton, and subsequently the Cumnock school of oratory of Evanston, 111. For a while he was engaged in educational work; and since 1885 has been a clergyman of the methodist episcopal church. He has filled pastorates in the Northwest Iowa conference in Ashton, Inwood, Rock Valley and Sutherland. He is the author of a number of sacred and popular songs, both of the words and music, which have appeared in