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States and was married to the widow of John S. EUery of Boston, Mass. Later he went to Texas and in 1849 journeyed tlirough Mexico to Cal- ifornia. After working there in the mines he was elected a member of the first state senate, served one term, and was a candidate for the U.S. senate the ensuing year. As major-general of the California militia he subdued and effected a treaty with hostile Indian tribes. During his citizenship in Texas he assisted in purchasing the land and laying out the town of Velasco. While in California he projected and laid out the towns of Oro and Vallejo and inti'oduced into the legislature the bill for the establishment of the state university. In his declining years he returned to Warren county, N.C., and set- tled OQ "Esmeralda" plantation on Shocco Creek, cultivating corn and tobacco. He is the author of Tlie. Texan E'xpedilion Against Mier (184.5). He died at "Esmeralda" plantation, Warren county. N.C., Dec. 13, 1863.

GREEN, Traill, scientist, was born in Easton, Pa., May 35, 1813; son of Benjamin and Eliza- beth (Traill) Green; grandson of Richard and Phebe (Moore) Green, and of Robert and Eliza- beth (Grotz) Traill; great-grandson of Richard and Mary (Ely) Green, and great,- grandson of William and Joanna (Reeder) Green, who were natives of Eng- land and first settled on Long Island, re- moving to Hunterdon county, N.J., about 1700. He attended Union academy, East- on, Pa., and later Jlinerva academy, conducted at the time by the Rev. Dr. John Van Derveer. He then took two full courses at the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania, and one at Chapman's med- ical institute, and received his M.D. degree from the university in 183.5. He was physician of the Fifth Street dispensary, 183,5-36, and then en- gaged in general practice in Easton, Pa., where he oi'ganized a class in chemistry. He was pro- fessor of general and applied chemistry in La- fayette college, 1837-11; and professor of natural sciences and lecturer on physiology and hygiene in Marshall college, Mercersburg, Pa.. 1841- 48. He was married in 1844 to Harriet Moore of Morristown, N.J. In 1848 he returneil to Easton where he resumed the practice of medi- cine and was again professor of chemistry in Lafayette college, 1848-6,5; professor of natural science, 1865; Adamson professor of general and

applied chemistry, 1865-74; professor of general chemistry, 1874-91; professor of medical juris- prudence, 1875-77; a trustee of the college. 1883- 97; acting president, 1890-91; emeritus professor of chemistry, 1891-97; and a member of the pru- dential committee, 1890-91. He built an astro- nomical observatory and presented it to the college; organized the Pardee scientific depart- ment in 1866, and was dean of the same, 1869- 97. He was a presidential elector in 1893. He held several state offices in connection with hos- pitals; was president of the Easton school board; the first president of the American academy of medicine; president of the Pennsylvania medical society in 1868; and a member of the American association for the advancement of science from its organii-ation in 1851 till 1874 and a fellow, 1874-97. He was also elected a member of the Linnseaii society, Lancaster, Pa., 1864, of the Buf- falo society of natural history, 1864; of the American philosophical societ}', 1868; of the American chemical society, 1876, and of several otlier scientific organizations. He received the honorary degree of A.M. from Rutgers college in 1841, and that of LL.D. from Washington and Jefi'erson college in 1866. He contribvited to medical periodicals and is the author of Zoologi- cal. Floral Distribution of the United States (1861). He died in Easton, Pa., April 39, 1897.

GREEN, Wharton Jackson, representative, was born in St. Mark's. Fla., Feb 38, 1831: son of Gen. Thomas Jefferson and Sarah A. (Wharton) Green; grandson of Solomon and Fanny (Haw- kins) Green, and of Jesse Wharton, and a descendant of Wil- liam Green, of Phile- mon Hawkins, who settled in Bute county, N.C., in 1717, and of Abigail Sugan, better known as " Grandmother Cook." Wharton at- tended Georgetown college, D.C.; the U.S. military acad- emy; the University of Virginia, and Cum- berland university, Tenn. He read law in the last two institutions and was admitted to prac- tice in the supreme court of the United States, being associated with the law firm of Robert J. Walker and Louis Janin. Failing healtli for the time necessitated the giving up of that profession for one requiring more active out-door exercise. In 18.58 he was married to Esther Sargent, only child of John S. Ellery of Boston, Mass., by whom there were four children

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