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Greenleaf, Moses, litterateur, author, was born Dee. 7, 1791. He was the author of Greenleaf s Grammar; and Greenleaf s Gazetteer, and Greenleafs Atlas. He died in Massachusetts. Greenleaf, Jonathan, ship huilder, legislator, congressman, was born in July, 1733. In 1774 he was unanimously chosen to rep-

resent the town of Newburyport in the general court. He was a member of the continental congress at the commencement of the war. He died May 24, 1807, in Newbury,

Greenman, Edward W., merchant, manu-

Conn. Greenleaf, Jonathan, clergyman, author, was born Sept. 4, 1785, in Newburyport, Mass. He organized the Wallabout presbyterian church in Brooklyn in 1843, and was its pastor until 1865. He was the author of Sketches and Ecclesiastical History of

Maine; History of New York Churches; and Genealogy of the Greenleaf Family. He died April 34, 1865, in Brooklyn, N.Y. Greenleaf, Joseph, patriot, publisher, was born Nov. 10, 1720, in Massachusetts. In 1771 he served in Boston as a justice of the peace. In 1773 he opened a printing office in Boston; and in 1774 he issued the first number of the Eoyal American Magazine. He died in 1809 in Boston, Mass. Greenleaf, Moses, litterateur, author, was born in 1778 in Newburyport, Mass. He was the author of Statistical View of Maine; and Survey of Maine. He died March 20, 1834, in Williamsburg, Maine. Greenleaf, Orick Herman, merchant, manufacturer, was born July 18, 1823, in Nunda, N.Y. In 1845 he became superintendent in the tanning establishment in Springfield, Mass. In 1847 he organized the firm of Greenleaf and Taylor, buyers and sellers of paper stock; and in 1865 he became manHe ager of the Holyoke paper, company. died May 14, 1896, in Springfield, Mass. Greenleaf, Patrick Henry, lawyer, clergyman, was born July 11, 1807, in Portland, Maine. In 1837 he began the practice of law; in 1835 he studied at Cambridge, Mass. In 1836 he was ordained deacon at the Grace church of Boston; and was rector for ten years at the St. John's church of Massachusetts. He died June 20, 1869, in Brooklyn, N.Y. Greenleaf, Simon, educator, lawyer, jurist, author, was born Dec. 5, 1783, in Newburyport, Mass. He was professor of law at Harvard university in 1835-53. His greatest work, A Treatise on the Laws of Evidence, passed into fifteen editions. He was also the author of Origin and Principles of Freemasonry; Full Collection of Cases Overruled, etc.; Reports of Cases in the Supreme Court of Maine, 1820-31; and Examination of the Testimony of the Four Evangelists by the Rules of Evidence. He died Oct. 6, 1853, in Cambridge, Mass.

Greenleaf,

Suffolk county; and in 1774 protesters against the whigs. He died in January, 1795, in Boston, Mass. Greenly, William L., lawyer, governor, was born Sept. 8, 1813, in Hamilton, N.Y. In 1836 he began the practice of law in Adrian, Mich.; in 1839-40 and 1842-43 he was a member of the Michigan state senate. In 1845-47 he was lieutenant-governor of Michigan; and then became governor of the He died Nov. 39, state to fill a vacancy. 1883, in Adrian, Mich.

was sheriff of was one of the

Stephen,

Oct. 4. 1704. He cessfully engaged

was as

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loyalist, was for forty years suc-

an underwriter.

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facturer, congressman, was born Jan. 36, 1840, in Berlin, N.Y. He was supervisor of Berlin in 1866-68; was clerk of Rensselaer county in 1868; and was deputy county In 1887-89 he was a clerk for ten years. representative to the fiftieth congress as a democrat. He died in 1907 in Troy, N.Y.

Greenman, Jesse More, educator, botanist, was bom Dec. 27, 1867, in North

scientist,

East, Pa.

He was

educated in the univer-

sity of Pennsylvania; at Harvard university; and has received the degrees of B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. Since 1905 he has been assistant curator of botany at the Field museum of natural history in Chicago, 111. He is a. fellow of the American association for the advancement of science, and a member of the botanical society of America.

GreenoTigh, Chester Noyes, educator, auwas born June 29, 1874, in Wakefield, Mass. Since 1907 he has been a professor of English at the university of Illinois. He History of Literature in is part author of

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America. Greenough, George Gordon, soldier, inven-

was bom Dec. 8, 1844, in Washington, D.C. In 1865-1902 he served in the United States army; served in Cuba in 1898-99; and in the Philippine Islands in 1900-02. He is the inventor of various devices for artillery operations. Greenough, Henry, architect, artist, author, was born Oct. 5, 1807, in Boston, Mass. He was an architect of Cambridge; and in 1852 superintended the decoration of the Crystal palace in New York City. He was the author of Ernest Carroll; Apelles and His Contemporaries; and various essays on art. He died Dee. 18, 1853, in Somerville, tor,

Mass. Greenough, Horatio, sculptor, artist, was born Sept. 6, 1805, in Boston, Mass. His Chanting Cherubs was the first group in marble executed by an American sculptor. He executed the colossal statue of Washington in front of the national capitol, for which congress paid twenty thousand dollars; and a group entitled The Rescue, on the steps leading to the rotunda of the

same

building.

He

Boston, Mass. Greenough, James

died Dec.

18,

1853, in

Bradstreet, educator, author, was born in 1833 in Maine. He has been a professor of Latin at Harvard uni-