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He was employed in the merchant service, 1854- 61. and was appointed in June, 1861, an acting master in the U.S. navj', serving in the U.S. ships Vinceniief, Oneida, Commodore, Niagara, Lonisiana and Boxer till the end of the civil war. He served on the U.S. ships Florida, Onerrierc, ITosj). Kan- sas, and Severn, 1866-71, and at the hydrographic office at Wash- ington, 1871-73. He was pro - moted acting lieutenant in April, 1864,

and entered the regular ser- vice in Decem- ber, 1868. In

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charge of the survey of the Gulf coast of Mexico, and from 1873 to 1883 had command of five government expeditions for determining ex- act latitudes and longitudes. He was promoted commander July 7, 1883: was on duty at the Portsmouth navy yard in 1883, 1884 and 188.5; commanded the U.S S. Yantic, 1885-87; was on duty at the New York navy yard, 1888-89; commanded the U.S.S. Saratoga. Pennsylvania nautical school ship, 1889-93; served as U.S. lighthouse inspector in the Massachusetts dis- trict, 1893-97, and retired from active service Feb. 23, 1897. On the breaking out of the Span- ish war he was assigned to duty at the New York and Boston navy yards, serving till the close of the war in November, 1898. His published works include: The Xavigation of the Caribbean Sea (1877); Telegraphic Longitudes in the ]Vest Indies and Central America (1877); Telegraphic Longitudes in South America (1880); Telegraphic Longitudes in East Indies, China and Japan (1883) and ^4 List of Geographical Positions (1883). He also wrote the definitions of naval and nautical words and plirases iu thi» Century dictionary.

GREEN, Henry Dickinson, representative, was born in Reading, Pa., May 3, 1857; son of Albert G. and Rebecca (Dickinson) Green; grand- son of John and Catharine (Bright) Green and of William Penn and Elizabeth (Miller) Dickin- son: and a descendant of William Green, a Quaker, who emigrated from Ireland in 1760 and settled in Maxatawny township. Pa.; and of Michael Briglit, born in Schrei-ssheim, Germany, emigrated to America in 1736 and settled in Ger- mantown, Pa., in 1736. Henry was educated in the public schools of Reading and at the Reading high school and was graduated from Yale in 1877. He was admitted to the bar. Nov. 10, 1879. and practised in Pennsylvania. He was a member of the state legislature. 1883-87, and was state senator, 1889-97 He was commissioned a cap

tain of the 9th Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, June 25, 1898, and served throughout the Span- ish-American war. He was elected a represent- ative in the 56th congress, November, 1899, to fill a vacancy caused by the death of Daniel Ermentrout.

GREEN, Henry Woodhull, jurist, was born in Lawreuceville, N.J., Sept. 20, 1803. He was graduated from the College of New Jersey in 1820 and was admitted to the bar in 1825. He opened an office in Trenton, was elected a repre- sentative in the state legislature in 1843, was a member of the state constitutional convention in 1844, and subsequently became reporter of the court in chancery. He was chief justice of the supreme court of New Jersey, 1846-60, and chan- cellor of the same, 1860-60, when he resigned be- cause of ill health. He spent much money in charity in connection with his brother, John Cleve Green. In 1833 he was appointed a trustee of Princeton theological seminar}', and in 1860 was elected president of the board, holding that office till his deatli. The honorary degree of LL.D. was given him by the College of New Jersey in 1850. He prepared lieports oj Cases in the Courts in Chancery of New Jersey (1842-46). He died in Trenton, N.j., Dec. 19, 1876.

GREEN, Jacob, educator, was born at Maiden, Mass., Jan. 33, 1731-32; son of Jacob and Dor- othy (Lynde) Green; grandson of Lieut. Henry and Esther (Hasse) Green, and a descen<lant of Thomas and Elizabeth Green(e) who came to America about 1635. His father died in 1723 and his mother was subsequently married to Jolin Barrett. About 1730 Jacob removed with his motlier and stepfatlier to Killingly, Conn., where he remained until 1739, when he decided to enter college. He accordingly sold his patri- mony and entered a preparatory school. He was graduated from Harvard in 1744 and taught school at Sutton, Mass., 1744-45. In the latter year he joined the Rev. George Whitefield, the evangelist, and accompanied liim to Elizabeth- town, N.J., where he studied theology under the Rev. Aaron Burr. In November, 1746, he was installed pastor of the Presbyterian church at Hanover, N.J., and to augment his small salary he studied and practised medicine. In 1774 he built a schoolhouse and established a Latin school. He was one of the first trustees of the College of New Jersey, 1748-64, and was vice- president of the institution, 1758-59, being act- ing president from the deatli of President Jonathan Edwards, March 22, 1758, to the in- stallation of President .Samuel Davies in Novem- ber, 1758 In the spring of 1776, he published a tract entitled ' ' Observations on the Reconcilia- tion of Great Britain and the Colonies, in which are Exhibited Arguments for and against tliat