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 GREEN

GREEN

1857; city attornej', 1858-68; member of the city council, 1803-73: surrogate of Union county, 181)2; presiding judge of the coimty courts, 18G8; and a member of the commission to sug- gest amendments to the state constitution, 1873. He represented the Democratic party as delegate to the national conventions of 1860, 1880 and 1888; was a representative in the 49tli congress, 1885-87; governor of New Jersey, 1886-90; vice-chancellor of the state, 1890-95; and judge of the court of error and appeals, 1894-95. The College of New Jersey gave him the honorary degree of LL.D. in 1887. He was a member of the New Jersey soci- ety of the Cincinnati; president of the state so- ciety. Sons of the American Revolution, 1888, and a vice-president -general of the National society. He died in Elizabeth, N.J., May 7, 1895.

GREEN, Samuel Abbott, physician, was born at Groton, Mass., March 16, 1830, son of Dr. Joshua and Eliza (Lawrence) Green; grandson of Joshua and Mary (Jlosley) Green; great- grandson of Joshua and Hannah (Storer) Green, and a descendant of Percival and Ellen Green, who came to America in 1635 and were liv ing at Cambridge in 1636. He acquired his early education at Lawi'ence acad- emy, Groton, and was graduated at Harvard, A.B., 1851, M.D., 1854. After four years in Europe he began practice in Boston. He was a district physician

^^Mlm^^^dlC<d. pensary, 1858-61, and 1 May 19, 1858, ■was appointed by Governor Banks surgeon of the 3d Massachusetts militia regiment. At the beginning of the civil war he was commis- sioned assistant surgeon of the 1st Massachu- setts regiment of volunteers. On Sept. 3, 1861, he was promoted surgeon, 34th Massachusetts volunteers, with which he remained until Nov. 2, 1864, serving at different times during this period on the staff of several general offi- cers. He organized and had charge of the hos-

pital ship Ilccruil of the Burnside expedition to Roanoke island, which sailed from Annapolis, in January, 1862. In February, 1862, he planned a cemetery on Roanoke island, which was one of the first regular burial places for national soldiers during the war. At one time he had charge of the hospital steamer Cosmopolitan on the coast of South Carolina; and during the siege of Fort Wagner he was chief medical officer on Morris Island. In October, 1863, he was sent to Florida where he acted as post-surgeon both at St. Augustine and Jacksonville, and thence was ordered in May, 1864, to Virginia, where he was with the Army of the James at the taking of Bermuda Hundred. He resigned his commission in the autumn of 1864. Having been appointed acting staff -surgeon in the spring of 1865, he was stationed for three months at Richmond after the fall of that city. "For gallant and distin- guished services in the field during the campaign of 1864" he wasbrevetted lieutenant-colonel of volunteers. After the war Dr. Green was super- intendent of the Boston dispensary, 1865-73; a member of the Boston school board, 1860-62 and 1865-73; trustee of the Boston public library, 1868-78, and acting librarian from October, 1877, to October, 1878. He gave to the library in 1880 his Franklin collection consisting of editions of the writings of Benjamin Franklin with books, pamphlets and engravings illustrating his life, together with a fund for its increase. In 1870 Governor Clafliu appointed him one of a commis- sion to care for disabled soldiers. In 1871 he became city physician of Boston, and lield the office until 1883. He was appointed by the joint committees of the senate and the house of repre- sentatives on epidemic diseases, Dec. 18, 1878, a member of the board of experts to investigate the causes and methods of preventing the yellow fever epidemic. In 1881, as the candidate of the citizen's party and the Republicans, he was elected mayor of the city of Boston, serving during the year 1883. He served as an over.seer of Harvard college, 1869-80, and was again elected in 1883; was chosen a trustee of the Pea- body education fund in 1883, and was elected secretary of the board; and from 1885 to 1888 he was the acting general agent of the board in the place of Dr. Curry who had been appointed min- ister to Spain. In 1868 he became librarian of the Massachusetts historical society, and in 1895 was chosen its vice-president. He was one of the editors of the American Journal of Numitimatics, 1870-91, and in 1893 was elected president of the Boston numismatic society. In 1896 the Univer- sity of Nashville, Tenn., conferred upon Dr. Green the honorary degree of LL. D. He is the author of History of Medicine in Massachusetts; and 2'he Story of a Famous Book.