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 HBRRINGSHAW'S LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHT. Green, Oliver Duff, soldier, was born in York. He served in the civil war; and in 1865 attained the rank of brigadier-

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Green, Robert Stockton, lawyer, congress35, 1831, in Princeton, N.J. In 1857-68 he was city attorney of Elizabeth, N.J.; was surrogate of Union county in 1863-67; and was presiding judge of Union county court of common pleas in 1868-73. He was a delegate to the democratic national conventions of 1860 a.nd 1880; and in 1885-87 he was a representative from New Jersey to the forty-ninth congress as a democrat. He died May 7, 1895, -in Elizabeth, N.J.

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Green, Robert Stockton, lawyer, governor, state legislator, was born Oct. 16, 1865, in Elizabeth, N.J. In 1887-90 he was the twenIn ty-seventh governor of New Jersey. 1896 he was appointed by the governor of New Jersey as a member of the state board of assessors. In 1897 he was elected to the state legislature.

Green, Rufus

Smith, clergyman, college was born in 1848 in New York. He is a presbyterian minister; president of Elmira college for women since 1893, and the author of History of Morristown, New Jersey; Our Church at Work; The Christian Steward; and Both Sides, or Jonathan and Absolom. Green, Samuel, printer, was born in 1615 in England. He was one of the first printers in New England, being the successor of Stephen Dave. He printed the Cambridge Platform in 1649; and a revised edition In 1658 he was of the Psalms in 1650. granted by act of legislature, three hundred acres of land, where it is to be found. It was subsequently laid out for him in Haverhill. In 1655 a second press arrived from England; and in 1659 he printed a version In of the Psalms in the Indian tongue. 1661 the New Testament was issued; and in 1663 the entire Old and New Testament. He died Jan. 1, 1703, in Cambridge, Mass. president, author,

Green, Samuel Swett, librarian, author, was born Feb. 20, 1837, in Worcester, Mass. In 1858 he graduated from Harvard college; and from the divinity school of Haruniversity i n 1864. For several years he was teller of the Worcester national bank'; and in 1871 was chosen librarian of the free public li-

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brary f Worcester, having previously been a director of the library. He was one of the founders o f t h e American library association, and its president in 1891; and was an original member and first president of the council of that

association. He has lectured at the school library of economy at Columbia college; and He is at the state library of New York. a member of numerous historical societies, and an officer in many institutions. He is

the author of two books, and has published many articles in magazines and newspapers, and delivered a great number of addresses. Green, Samuel Abott, physician, librarian, author, was bom March 16, 1830, in GroHe was a surgeon in the army ton, Mass. during the civil war; was mayor of Boston in 1882; is a noted physician of Boston; for ten years was city physician; and since 1868 has been librarian of the MassachuHe is the author setts historical society. of The Early Eecords of Groton; History of Medicine in Massachusetts; Groton Historical Series; and other works. Green, Samuel B., educator, horticulturauthor, was born on Sept. 15, 1859, in He has been for ten years Chelsea, Mass. professor of horticulture in the university He is the author of Amaof Minnesota. teur Fruit Growing; Vegetable Gardening; and other works. Green, Sanford Moon, lawyer, jurist, author, was born May 30, 1807, in Rensselaer county, N.Y. He was elected to the Michigan state senate for two years; and received the election in 1845. In 1848 he was appointed a judge of the supreme court; and performed the duties of circuit judge for ten years. He subsequently served as circuit judge for nearly twenty-five years. He Treatise on the Pracwas the author of tice of the Circuit Courts of Michigan; Treastise on the Practice of the Courts of Common Law of Michigan, in two volumes; A Treastise on Townships and the Power ist,

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and Duties of Township Officers; and A Treatise on the Nature, Causes, Treatment and Prevention of Crime. He died in 1901 in Michigan.

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born March 19, 1817, in Rochester, N.Y. He was a noted pisciculturist; and in 1870-88 superintendent of the New York fish commission. He was the author of Trout Culture; Home Fishing and Home Waters; and Fish Hatching and Pish Catching. He died Aug. 30, 1888, in Rochester, N.Y. Green, T. P., naval officer. He attained the rank of rear-admiral in the United States navy. He died on Aug. 30, 1887 in Jaffrey, N.H. Green, Thomas, governor, was born in England. He was one of the Roman catholic pilgrims that accompanied Leonard Calvert to Maryland in 1634; was appointed privy councillor in 1639; and governor in 1637. He died in Maryland.

Green Thomas, soldier, was born in 1816 In 1855-58 he was clerk of the supreme court of Texas. He joined the confederate army; and was appointed ma-

in Virginia.