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Measure, by a Friend of American Liberty." This pamphlet was widely circulated. In May, 1T76, Mr. Gi'een was elected a member of the Provincial congress of New Jersey, organized at Burlington, June 10, 1776. On June 24, he was made chairniau of a committee appointed to prepare the constitution of New Jersey, which was adopted July 2, 1776, and remained the organic law of the state until 1844. Mr. Green wrote many articles on the currency under the pen-name of "Eamenes," and several of his suggestions were subsequently embodied in the laws jjassed by the Continental congress. He was married Oct. 19, 1757, to Elizabeth, daugh- ter of the Rev. John Pierson of Woodbridge, N.J., and granddaughter of the Rev. Abraham Pierson, first president of Yale college. The College of New Jersey conferred on him the honorary degree of A.M. in 1749. His published works are ficrmons (1768) ; A Pamphlet on the Jewish Church (1768); and Sermons (1769). His son contributed his Antohiotjraphy to the Christian Ailcncale- He died in Hanover, N.J., May 24, 1796.

QREEN, Jacob, educator, was born in Phila- delphia, Pa., July 26, 1790; son of the Rev. Ash- bel and Elizabeth (Stockton) Green, and grandson of Jacob Green. He was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1807, and from Queen's (afterward Rutgers) college in 1812, and was admitted to the bar, jiractising in Philadel- phia until 1818, when he accepted the chair of experimental philosophy, chemistry and natural history in the College of New Jersey. He re- signed in 1822 to become professor of chemistry in Jefferson medical college in Philadelpliia where he remained until his death. He received the degree of A.M. from Queen's college, and from the College of New Jersey in 1815; that of 31. D. from Yale in 1827, and that of LL.D. from Jefferson in 1835. He published Treatise on Elec- tricity ; Chemical Diagram ; Chemical Philosophy (1823); Astronomical Pecreations (1829); A Sylla- bus of a Course of Chemistry (1835) ; Trilobites (1832) ; Botany of the United States (1833) ; Xotesofa rraclli-r {ISM) ; and Diseases of the Skin (^18il). He die! in Philii lelphia. Pa., Feb. 1, 1841.

QREEN, James Sproat, lawyer, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., July 22, 1792; son of Ashbel and Elizabeth (Stockton) Green; grandson of Jacob 2d and Elizabeth (Pierson) Green; and a descendant of Thomas and Elizabeth Green(e), 1635. He was graduated from Dickinson college in 1811; was admitted to the bar of New Jersey in 1817, as counsellor in 1821 and as sergeant in 1834, and was law reporter, 1831-36. He was U.S. district attorney for New Jersey, 1829-45, and was nominated by President Tyler to be secretary of the treasury, but was not confirmed by the senate. He was a trustee of the College

of New Jersey. 1828-62, and professor of juris- prudence there, 1847-55. He married in 1825 Isabella W., daughter of John McCuUoh of Phila- delphia, He died at Princeton, N. J., Nov. 8, 1862.

QREEN, James Stephens, senator, was born in Fauquier county, Va., Feb. 28, 1817. He at- tended the publici schools, removed to Alabama in 1836, and then to Canton, Mo., where he was admitted to the bar in 1840 and began j)ractice. He was a presidential elector on the Deruocratic ticket in 1844 ; was a member of the state con- stitutional convention in 1845; and a representa- tive in the 30th and 31st congresses, 1847-51. He argued a boundary dispute case in the su- preme court, by appointment of Gov. Austin A. King, and in 1849-50 canvassed his state in opposi- tion to the return of Senator Thomas H. Benton, and Henry S. Gej'er was elected to succeed him in the U.S senate. In 1853 President Pierce appointed Mr. Green charge d'affaires and sub- sequently minister resident at Bogota, New Gre- nada. He was elected a representative in the 34th congress in 1854, but before taking his seat, Dec. 3, 1855, he was chosen U.S. senator as successor to D. R. Atcliison, and he served his entire term. During the second session of the 35th congress he was chairman of the senate committee on ter- ritories and presented the report of that commit- tee advocating the admission of Kansas to the Union under the Lecompton constitution. He died in St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 9, 1870.

QREEN, Jerome Joseph, electrician, was born near Somerset. Ohio, Dec. 26, 1865; son of Joshua and Emily (Flowers) Green; grandson of Joshua and Sarah (Hughes) Green, and of Matthias and Mary (Elder) Flowers; and a descendant of Cap- tain Joshua Green of the Kent County, Md., militia in war of 1812, who came to America from England in 1800. He studied and taught in the district schools, and learned the carpenter's trade. He was graduated from the Oliio State university, M.E. in 1893, and during the college vacations designed cash registers and worked in photograph galleries. He was employed as a tester of the electrical apparatus for the bureau of awards at the World's Columbian exposition in 1893. He was engaged at the installation of the electrical apparatus at the Atlanta exposi- tion in 1895, and was connected with the Chicago Edison companj' and the National school of elec- tricity in Cliicago until 1895. He accepted the chair of physics and electrical engineering at Notre Dame university, Indiana, in 1895. He conducted a series of experiments in wireless telegraphy at Notre Dame university, 1899, with apparatus made up in tlie laboratories and shops of the univei-sity, first from one room to another, then increasing the distance till signals were dis- tinctly received three miles away, — the appa-