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GREEN, Samuel Swett, librarian, was born iu Worcester, Mass., Feb. 20, 1837; son of James and Elizabetli (Swett) Green; grandson of John Green, and a descendant of Thomas Green who came from England about 1635 and settled in Maiden, Mass.; and also a descendant, through his mother, from Ralph Sprague. who came to Charlestowu, Mass., in 1639. He was prepared for col- lege at the Worcester high school and was graduated from Har- vard in 18.58. In June, 1859, he sajiled for Smyrna and Con- .stantinople, return- ing in November of the same year.

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^Utt4^uiJ'^rC^'- from Harvard divin- ity school in 1864, but the condition of liis health prevented his en- tering the ministry and he accepted a clerical position in the Mechanics' national bank in Worcester, becoming teller in the Worcester national bank a few months later. On Jan. 15, 1871, he became librarian of the Free i^ublic library in Worcester. He was a director of the library, 1807-71. He was one of the founders of the American library association in 1876, was chosen first vice-president in September, 1887, .and president, July 16, 1891. He was a delegate of the association to the International congress of librarians Iield in London in October, 1877, and was a member of the council of that body; was chosen honorary member of the Library association of the United Kingdom in July, 1878; was lectui-er on ' ' Public Libraries as popular educational institutions " in the school of library economy, when connected with Columbia col- lege, N. Y. city; was chosen a fellow of the Royal historical society of Great Britain, May 8, 1879; and a member of the American antiquarian society, April 28, 1880, and of its council, Oct. 23, 1883. In July, 1893, he presided over the World's congress of librarians, held in connection with the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago, and in 1897 was vice-president of the second in- ternational congress of librarians held in London, England. He was appointed in October, 1890, a member of the original board of the Massachu- setts free public library commissioners, and was reappointed in 1894 and 1899. Harvard conferred upon him the degree of A.M. in 1870. He is the author of two books on library topics; of numer- ous pamphlets on library and historical subjects; of numerous articles for foreign and American

periodicals, and of papers published by the gov- ernments of Great Britain, the United States and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. His work in advancing the modern library movement had in 1900 included nearly thirty years' labor as writer and lecturer.

QREEN, Seth, pisciculturist, was born in Roche.ster, N.Y., March 19. 1817. He carried on a fish and game market in Rochester, and in 1837 first experimented in the artificial propaga- tion of fish which he improved upon after a trip to Canada in 1838, during which he observed the habits of the salmon and found how large a pro- portion of the spawn was destroyed by the male salmon and other fish. His aim was to protect the spawn in the waters where the fish deposit it, and on many streams he increased the yield to 95 jier cent of the spawn deposited. In 1884 he began the artificial propagation of fish on a con- siderable scale at Caledonia, N.Y., and in 1867 by invitation of the fish commissioners of the New England states he experimented at Holyoke, Mass., where in two weeks he hatched 15,000,000 shad, and in 1868, 40.000,000. He extended his work to the Hudson, Susquehanna and Potomac rivers where he artificially jiropagated fifteen species of fishes. He was appointed one of the fish commissioners for New York in 1868, which office he resigned on being made superintendent of the state fisheries. He transi^orted shad to California m 1871, the first found in the waters of the Pacific slope, and in 1885 over 1,000,000 shad were marketed on the coast. He succeeded in hj-bridizing fish, and invented appliances after- war<l universally used. He was decorated by the Socifitfi d'aclimation, Paris. He published Trout Culture (1870); Finh ITatchinr/ and Fish Catcliinr/ (1879). He died in Rochester, N.Y., Aug. 20, 1888.

QREEN, Thomas, soldier, was born in Amelia county, Va., June 8, 1814; son of Nathan and Mary (Field) Green. He was educated in Ten- nessee to which state his father remo-s-ed when Thomas was an infant; and when the Texas struggle for independence took form he emigrated to that state, and took part in the war of 1836- 37, and also in the war with Mexico, 1846-47. He was clerk of the supreme court of Texas while not absent on military duty, 1841-61. Tom Green county was named for him. In 1801 he was made a colonel in the Confederate army and took part in the engagements at Valverde, Feb. 21, 1862, Glorietta, March 20-28, 1862, Las Cruces, and in the recapture of Galveston, and of the steamer Harriet Lane by Gen. J.B. Slagruder, com- manding the district of Texas, Jan. 1, 1863. He was in command of the cavalry in the division of Gen. Richard Taylor, and his troop of cavalry routed Generals Weitzel and Grover at Koch's plantation on Bayou La Fourche, July 13, 1863.