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congress then in session at Princeton attended the coniiut'iioenient exercises iu a body together with General Washington. In the course of his vale- dictory, Mr. Green made a direct address to Washington, which made such an impression that the young man was invited to dine with the con- gress. After gi-aduation he was appointed a tutor in the College of New Jersey and in 1785 became professor of mathematics and natural philosophy. In 1787 he resigned his chair to accept the asso- ciate pastorship of the Second Presbyterian church in Pliiladelpliia, and in 1792, ou the death of his colleague, Dr. Spi'oat, succeeded to the chief pastorship. In the latter year lie was ap- pointed chaplain to the U.S. house of representa- tives. He was a trustee of the College of New Jersey, 1790-18-18, and in 1813, on the resignation of President Samuel Stanhope Smith, he was ap- pointed his successor in the presidency of the in- stitution, which office he held until 1833. He organized as an adjimct to the college the theo- logical seminary and was president of its^oard of trustees imtil his deatli. In 1833 he removed to Philadelphia and originated and became editor of the Christian Adiwcate. He was president of the Jefferson medical school for many years. He was m:irried. in 1785, to Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Stockton of Princeton. He received the honorarj- degree of D. D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1791, and that of LL.D. from the University of North Carolina in 1813. His pub- lished writings include : Sermons on the Assembly's Catechism (1818); Presbyterian Missiojis (1830); Discourse Delivered in the College of Kew Jersey with a History of the College (1823) ; Sermons from 1790 to 1S36 (1836); and Beports and Addresses from 1793 to 1S36 (1837). See Autobiography edited by J. H. Jones (1849). He died in Phila- delphia. Pa., May 1!). 1848.

GREEN, Bartholomew, printer, was born in Camliridge, Mass.. Oct. 13, 16G6; son of Samuel Green, a pioneer printer in New England and successor to Stephen Daye, printer. Samuel Green printed the Cambridge Platform in 1649 ; a revised edition of the Psalms, 1650; a version of the Psalms in the Indian tongue, 1659; The New Testament, 1660 ; the entire Old and New Testa- ments with the New England Psalms in Indian verse -translated by the Rev. John Eliot in the dialect of the Nipmuck Indians in 1663, and a second edition in 1685. He had nineteen children, and his descendants were nearly all printers. Bartholomew succeeded to his father's business and set up his press in Boston, where it was de- stroyed by fire. Sept. 16, 1690. He issued the Boston Xews-Letler. April 34, 1704, and continued its publication during his lifetime, John Camp- bell, postmaster, being proprietor till 1733. when it became the property of Green, and till 1719

was the only newspaper in the colonies. Atter his death tlie Xews-Letter was conducted by his son-in-law, John Draper, and then by Draper's son Richard. Green was printer for the govern- ment for forty years, and did the most of the printing business of Boston. He died in Boston, Mass., Dec. 38. 1733.

QREEN, Beriah, clergyman, was born at Pres- ton. Conn., March 34, 1795. He was graduated at MiJiUeburj' college, in 1819, and attended Andover theological seminary, 1819-30. He taught in Phillips academy, Andover, Mass., 1830-31 ; was acting pastor of a Congregational church at East Lyme, Conn., 1831-22; was or- dained to the ministry, April 16, 1833; and held pastorates at Brandon, Vt., 1823-29, and Kenne- bvmk. ilaine, 1839-30. He was professor of sacred literature in the Western Reserve college, 1830- 33; president of Oneida literary and tlieological institute, Whitesboro, N.Y., 1833-34, and acting pastor of a Congregational church in that town, 1843-67. He was a strong advocate of anti-slav- ery, was a friend of William Lloyd Garrison and Gerrit Smith, and was elected president of the national anti-slavery convention that met in Pliiladelphia and formed the American anti- slaveiy society. He was also interested in tem- perance and education and was the foimderof the school for manual labor at Whitesboro, N.Y. He is the author of: History of the Quakers; Sermons and Discourses, with a Few Essays and Addresses. He died in Whitesboro, N. Y., May 4, 1874.

QREEN, Bernard Richardson, civil engineer, was born in Maiden, Mass., Dec. 38, 1843; son of Ezra and Elmina Minerva (Richardson) Green, grandson of Bernard and Lois (Diman) Green,

and of Ralph and (Childs) Richardson, and

a descendant of James Green who came from England to Boston prior to 1634. He attended

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the Lawrence scientific school. Harvard univer- sity, 1861-63, and entered the government service as a civil engineer early in the latter year. He was with the officers of the U.S. corps of engi- neers engaged in the construction of fortifications in Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts, 1863-77, and, as assistant to Gen. Thomas Lincoln