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starvation, and only six remained alive, when the relief ships Thetis and Bear under the command of Captains Winfield Scott Schley and William H. Emory rescued them, June 22, 1884, after they had been for forty-two hours entirely without food. General Greely received the highest geo- graphical honors for his explorations and was awarded gold medals by the Royal Geographical society and the Societfe de Geographie. He was elected honorary vice-president of the sixth and seventh International geographical cougi-esses at London in 1896, and Berlin in 1899. He also re- ceived a vote of tlianks from the legislatiu'e of Massachusetts, " for his services in war. in science and in exjiloration," and was officially thanked for the return of the British ensign, official de- spatches and Arctic mail. He is the author of: Three Years of Arctic Service (1886) and American Weather (1888). TIte Uescne of Greely by Capt. W. S. Schley, U.S.N. (1835), givesa vivid account of the I'elief expedition.

QREEN, Alexander Little Page, clergyman, was born in Sevier county, Tenu., June 6, 1806. He was educated for the ministry and in 1827 was received as a member of the Tennessee confer- ence of the M.E. church. He worked as a mis- sionary, filled various pastorates, and in 1844 was sent as a delegate to the general conference in New York city, which met to organize the M.E. church, south, and was one of the board of com- missioners appointed to settle the property ques- tion arising on account of the division of the church. He promoted the M.E. publishing house at Nashville, and was for several years chairman of the book committee. He also served as a trustee of Central Tennessee college and of Van- derbilt univex'sity. He wrote Church in the Wilder- ness (1840); and Fishes of Xorth America (MS 1874). He died at Nasliville, Tenn.. July 15, 1874.

QREEN, Andrew Haswell, publicist, was born at Green Hill, Worcester, Mass., Oct. 6, 1820; son of William E. and Julia (Plimpton) Green; grand- son of John and Mary (Ruggles) Green, and of Oliver and Lydia Plimpton; gi'eat-gi'andson of Brig. -Gen. Timothy Ruggles (1711-1795), and a descendant of Thomas Gx-een, who came to Amer- ica from England in 1635-36, and of Thomas Ruggles, who came from England in 1637. Andrew was educated in the public school, stud- ied law, and practised his profession in New York city, as a partner with Sanuiel J Tilden, of whose will he became an executor. He served as com- missioner and president of the board of education in 1856; was a member of the Central Park com- mission; its executive officer and president of the board, 1857-70, and comptroller of the city of New York, 1871-76. Upon entering the comp- troller's office he found an immense debt on the city caused by the extravagance of the Tweed

ring, amomiting to millions of dollars, and his system of checks put a stoj) to a method that had made possible such a comlitiou. In 1868 lie con- ceived the plan of Greater New York, which became a reality in 1898; was chairman of the commission imder the act of 1890, and became known as the " Father of Greater New York." In 1898 he received a medal commemorating the consolidation of the municipalities about the port of New York. He also originated the sugge.stion of consolidation which resulted in the New York public library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden foimda- tions, of which he became an original trustee. He was also chairman of the commission having in charge the plans for the railroad bridge over the Hudson river to accommodate eight railroad tracks with an elevated spur for freight traffic along the water front of the river from 59th street to the Battery in New York city. He was appointed a commissioner of the State Reservation at Niagara in 1885 and was made its president. In 1883 he was appointed a state commissioner relative to the tax laws of the state of New York. Among many other projects he inaugurated the Society for the preservation of scenic and historic places and objects, the Zoological garden, the Museums of Art and Natural History and the Meteorological observatory, which were built up by his efforts.

QREEN, Anna Katharine, See Rohlfs, Anna Katliarine Green.

QREEN, Asa, author, was born in Ashburn- ham. Mass., in 1789. He was graduated from Williams coUege, A.B., 1813; from Bro\\-n, M.D., 1822, and from the Berkshire medical mstitution in 1827, Afterward he removed to New York city, where he opened a book store and for some years was editor of the Evening Transcript He is the author of The Life and Adventures of Doctor Dodimus Duckworth, A.y.Q.; to inhich is added the History of a Stecm Doctor (1833); The Perils of Pearl Street (2 vols., 1834); The Travels of Ex-Bar- ber Frihhelton in America (1835); A Yankee Among the yullifers (1835); A Glance at New York (1837); and Debtors' Prison (1837). He died in New York city in 1839.

QREEN, Ashbel, educator, was born in Han- over, N.J., July 6, 1762; son of Jacob and Eliza- beth (Pierso7i) Green; gi-andson of Jacob and Dorothy (Lynde) Green, and a descendant of Thomas and Elizabeth Green (e), who came to America about 1635. His preparatory education was acquired under the instruction of his father. At the age of sixteen he volunteered as a private in the state militia serving in that capacity and as a subaltern officer until 1782, when he entered the junior class of the College of New Jersey. He was gi-aduated in 1783 as valedictorian, also hav- ing first honors in scholarship. The Continental