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Rh from Rochester, Colgate and Norwich universities, and that of LL.D. from Columbian, Howard and Norwich universities. He was ordained pastor of the Baptist church in Cazenovia, New York, in June, 1875, and his pastorate there, closing in 1879, was full of usefulness, and the church soon came to be considered one of the most important in central New York. In 1879 he accepted a call to Calvary Baptist church, Washington, District of Columbia, where he is still pastor in 1905. He was elected trustee of Columbian university, Washington, District of Columbia, in 1889 — an office which he still holds. He was acting president of the same institution in the years 1894-95 and again from 1900-02.

Doctor Greene has pubhshed "The Twentieth Century Sunday School." He is a member of the Delta Upsilon college fraternity; National Geographic Society; American Institute of Archseology, of which he is a vice-president; and of the Sons of the Revolution. History, biography, art and science have helped to equip him for his life-work. Tennis, boating and golf attract him, but his duties leave him little time for amusement or exercise. His summer vacations are spent on his farm in northern Vermont. He says he was led to his life-work through " absolute conviction of divine call to the Chris- tian ministry — not my own wish." The source of his strong desire to attain the best in life was, in his own words, "strong love for my kind; desire to be helpful," and because he was "naturally religious" and had "an instinct for leadership." He esteems home, school, companionship, contact with men in active life, in the order named, as the most potent influences of his life. He says of his successes, "However humble they may be, they have been more than my expectation." For young men, he emphasizes the need of "clean character, broad education, observation, untiring industry, honest faith in God and man and 'gumption.' "

Doctor Greene was married in 1866 to Miss Lucia A. Buzzell and they had one son living in 1905.