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 HBRRINGSHAW'S IjIBRART OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. He jor-general for distinguished services. died April 14, 1864, in Blairs Plantation, La. Green, Thomas Andre, soldier, lawyer, was born Oct. 21, 1840, in Blair county Pa. During the civil war he was captain of company F, ninetysixth Illinois volunteer infantry and served with distinction. He was the author of a standard work on Pleading and Practice. .

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mine, valued at some ten millions, which suit he successfully gained, and from this suit he realized the largest fee ever made by an attorney in the United States. He died in Denver, Colo. Green, Thomas Edward, clergyman, bishop, author, was born Dec. 27, 1857, in Harrisville. Pa. In 1888-lC 3 he filled a pastorate in the Grace episcopal church of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and built up the largest parish in the state. He was elected bishop of Iowa in 1898, but declined election. He is the author of The Mantraps of the City; The Hill Called Calvary ; and other works. Green, Thomas Jefferson, soldier, state senator, author, was bom in 1801 in Warren county, N.C. He removed to Texas early in life; and served as brigadier-general of volunteers in the war of Texan independence. He removed to California several years later; served in the state senate; and was major-general of militia. He was the author of the Mier Expedition. He died Dec. 13, 1863, in Warren county, N.C. Green, Thomas M., congressman, was bom in Virginia. He was an extensive planter of Bruinsburg, Miss. In 1802-03 he was a representative from Mississippi to the seventh congress to fill a vacancy. Green, Traill, physician, chemist, educator, was born May 25, 1813, in Easton, Pa. In 1837 he was elected professor of general and applied chemistry in Lafayette college. He died April 29, 1897, in Easton, Pa. Green, Warren L., publisher, engraver, artist, was born May 19, 1866, in New York City. In 1882 he entered the service of the American bank note company; in 1896 became manager of the Canadian branch; and since 1906 has been president of that corporation.

Green, Wharton Jackson, soldier, agriculcongressman, author, was born Feb. 28, 1831, in St. Marks, Fla. Upon the breaking out of the civil war he enlisted in the confederate army; and was promoted to turist,

lieutenant-colonel. He was a presidential elector in 1868. He purchased the famous Tokay Vineyard, of Cumberland county, N.C. In 1883-87 he was a representative

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from North Carolina to the forty-eighth and forty-ninth congresses as'a democrat. He is the author of KecoUections and Reflections.

Green, William Alexander, soldier, phyauthor, was born Jan. 5, 1934, in Augusta, Ga. In 1861 he entered the confederate army; and afterward became chief surgeon. He was the inventor of a hypodermic syringe; the designer of a hypodermic syringe-needle; and of Green's pocket cases. He is the author of papers on the SmallPox; Vaccination and Its Results; and The Use of the Hypodermic Syringe. sician,

Green, William Henry, clergyman, author,

was bom Jan. 27, 1825, in Groveville, He was a presbyterian clergyman; and

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fessor of biblical literature at Princeton college in 1851-96. He was the author of. The Pentateuch Vindicated; Grammar of the

Hebrew Language; A Hebrew Chrestomathy; Argument of Job Unfolded; Moses and the Prophets; Newton Lectures for 1885; The Hebrew Feasts; The Higher Criticism of the Pentateuch; and The Unity of the Book of Genesis. He died Feb. 10, 1900, in Princeton, N.J.

Green, William Mercer, clergyman, bishop, author, was born May 3, 1798, in Wilmington, Del. He was the first protestant episcopal bishop of Mississippi; and in 1867 became chancellor of the University of the South at Sewanee, Tenn. He was author of Lives of Bishop Ravenscroft and Bishop Otey. He died Feb. 13, 1887, in Sewanee,

Tenn. Green, William Wilkinson, lawyer, jourwas bom Aug. 1, 1820, in Hindostan. He has been editor and owner of the Daily Syracuse Democrat, and of the Weekly Onondaga Democrat. He is the author of a work on Morals; and a prize essay on The American Government. nalist, author, poet,

Green, Willis, surveyor, state legislator,

congressman, was bom in the Shenandoah valley, Va. He represented Kentucky county in the legislature of Virginia; and was a member of the Danville convention in 1785, and of the first state constitutional convention of 1792. He was a surveyor for locating land warrants; was a member of the Kentucky legislature in 1836-37; and in 1839-45 he was a representative from Kenr tucky to the twenty-sixth, twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth congresses. He died in Virginia.

Green, Willis Duff, physician, was born Jan. 18, 1821, in Danville, Ky. He attended the Center college of his native city; graduated in medicine from the medical department of the Transylvania university of Lexington, Ky., and also from the Medical college of Ohio. He is a successful physician of Mount Vernon, 111.; grand master of the Independent order of odd fellows in Illinois; and a representative to the grand lodge of the United States. He is a member of the leading medical and scientific societies; and