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 226 GREEN death. He was the author of a number of sci- entific text books, including "Chemical Phi- losophy " (Philadelphia, 1829), " Astronomical Recreations," " Treatise of Electro-Magnetism," " Monograph of the Trilobites of North Amer- ica," &c. : of papers in the " American Journal of Science ;" and of " Notes of a Traveller through England and Europe" (3 vols., 1831). GREEN, Samuel, an American printer, born in England in 1615, died in Cambridge, Mass., Jan. 1, 1702. He succeeded Day in the print- ing house at Cambridge about 1648. He print- ed the "Cambridge Platform" in 1649, the laws in 1660, and, in the Indian language, the Psalter, Eliot's Catechism, Baxter's " Call to the Unconverted," the New Testament, and 1,000 copies of the Bible in 1683. He had 19 children, and his descendants were a race of printers, living in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, and Maryland. GREEN, Seth, an American fish culturist, born in Eochester, N. Y., March 19, 1817. A fish- erman by occupation, his attention was early attracted by the gradual diminution of fish in the waters of the state, and in 1838 he began to devote himself to practical fish cul- ture. In 1864 he organized the fish-breeding establishment at Caledonia springs in Living- ston co., which he managed with great success for four years. In 1867 he invented a shad- hatching box, which has been extensively used in stocking the Connecticut, Hudson, and other rivers. He published a work on " Trout Cul- ture" in 1870, and in 1871 succeeded in trans- porting 10,000 young shad from the Hudson to the Sacramento. He was for some years com- missioner of fisheries of the state of New York, and is now (1874) superintendent of the state hatching house at Caledonia. He has been justly styled the father of American fish culture. GREEN, William Mercer, an American bishop of the Protestant Episcopal church, born in Wilmington, N. C., May 2, 1798. He graduated at the university of his native state in 1818, studied for the ministry, and was ordained in 1820. lie was appointed professor of rhetoric in the university of North Carolina in 1837, and was, elected first bishop of Mississippi in 1849, and consecrated Feb. 24, 1850. Bishop Green was among^ the founders of the " Uni- versity of the South," at Suwanee, Tenn., in 1858, and became its chancellor in 1866, which post he still occupies (1874). He has published a " Memoir of Bishop Ravenscroft," and " Ser- mons on Apostolic Succession and Baptismal Regeneration." GREEN BAY, a large arm of Lake Michigan, communicating with the W. side of the lake by a broad opening at which lies a group of islands. It partly separates Wisconsin from the upper peninsula of Michigan, and is 100 m. long from N. E. to S. W., and from 15 to 30 m. broad. It receives Menomonee, Fox, and several smaller rivers. The name Green was given it on account of its color, caused by its great depth, which is said to exceed 500 ft. GREENBRIER GREEN BAY, a city and the capital of Brown co., Wisconsin, on a low peninsula between Fox and East rivers, about 2 m. above the head of Green bay, 100 m. N. of Milwaukee- pop. in 1860, 2,275 ; in 1870, 4,666. It has a fine harbor, accessible by the largest steam- ers from Lake Michigan ; while, by means of the improvements on Fox river and the canal across the portage, boats of 5 ft. draught have passed, during high water, by way of the Fox and Wisconsin rivers, from Lake Michigan to the Mississippi. The Wisconsin division of tho Chicago and Northwestern railroad passes through Fort Howard (pop. in 1870, 2,462), a borough on the W. bank of the Fox opposite Green Bay, with which it is connected by a bridge and ferries. Green Bay itself is the terminus of the Milwaukee and Northern and the Green Bay and Lake Pepin railroads. The most important item of trade is lumber, about 79,000,000 feet, besides 200,000,000 shingles and 6,000,000 staves, the product of 40 or 50 mills in the surrounding country, being mar- keted here annually. The grain and flour trade is also considerable. The receipts in 1871, in- cluding Fort Howard, amounted to 539,102 bushels of grain and 110,000 barrels of flour. To accommodate this traffic, an elevator with a capacity of 225,000 bushels has been erected upon a pier which projects 800 ft. into the river, and along which the railroad tracks have been extended. The entire trade of the city in 1871 amounted to about $3,500,000. It contains a number of noteworthy public buildings, in- cluding large warehouses, an elegant court house, and a well arranged opera house, and has many handsome residences. There are three national banks with an aggregate capital of $200,000, 12 public schools, including a high school, a daily and three weekly (one German) newspapers, and 11 churches. The first per- manent settlement at Green Bay was effected by the French in 1745. A portion of the site was laid out about 1830 under the name of Navarino, and another portion in 1835 under that of Astor. They were incorporated as Green Bay in 1839, and in 1854 a city charter was granted. In the early parf of this century it was a post of the American fur company. GREENBRIER, a S. E. county of West Vir- ginia, bordering on Virginia, intersected by Greenbrier river, a N. E. affluent of the Great Kanawha or New river, and bounded S. E. by a ridge of the Alleghanies ; area, 880 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 11,417, of whom 1,103 were colored. The soil of the valleys is fertile. The celebra- ted White Sulphur Springs are in this county, which is crossed by the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad. The chief productions in 1870 were 50,214 bushels of wheat, 181,381 of Indian corn, 92,295 of oats, 13,928 of potatoes, 174,- 865 Ibs. of butter, 34,051 of wool, and 7,444 tons of hay. There were 2,805 horses, 3,201 milch cows, 6,199 other cattle, 13,880 sheep, and 5,733 swine ; 4 saw mills, and 2 woollen factories. Capital, Lewisburg.