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Bourne Jones, widow of Abel Jones and daughter of Benjamin Bourne. There were no children by this marriage. He received the honorary degree of A.M. from Brown university in 1827. He die 1 in Providence. R.I., Jan. 8, 1863.

GREENE, Albert Gorton, jurist, was born iu Providence, R.I., Feb. 10, 1802; son of John Holden and Elizabetli (Beverly) Greene; grand- son of Thomas Rice and Mary (Briggs) Greene, and a descendant of John Greene, a contempo- rary of Roger Williams who with Samuel Gorton settled Warwick, R.I. He prepared for col- lege at the university grammar school in Providence, and was graduated from

Brown in 1820. He was admitted to the bar in 1823. and opened an office in Providence where he was clerk of the city council, 1832- 67; clerk of the municipal court,

1832-57; and judge of the municipal court, 1858-67. He drafted the original school bill of Rhode Island, was one of the founders of the Providence Athenajum, and president of the R.I. historical society, 1854-68. He was a student of English literature, and at the time of his death possessed a large private library. His collection of American poetry finally passed to Brown imi- versity. In 1824 he was married to Slary Ann, daughter of Benjamin Clifford of Providence. One of their daughters became the wife of the Rev. Dr. Samuel White Duncan, and when Judge Greene resigned from the municipal bench in 1867, he removed to his daughter's home in Cleve- land. Ohio. Judge Greene edited Thomas Dring's Secollectiona of the Jersey Prison Ship (1829), and the Literary Journal (1833). Besides articles in periodicals he is the author of the poems Old Grimes, the Militia Muster, Adelheid, The Baron's Last Banquet, and Canouchet. He died in Cleve- land, Ohio, Jan. 3, 1868.

GREENE, Charles Ezra, educator, was born in Cambridge, Mass., Feb. 12, 1842; son of James Diman and .Sarah Adeline (Durell) Green; grand- son of Bernard and Lois (Diman) Green, of Maiden, Mass., and of Daniel Meserve and Eliza- beth (Wentworth) Durell, of Dover, N.H.; and a descendant of James Greene, born in England, 1610, who was in Charlestown, Mass., 1634. He was graduated at Harvard in 1863, and at the Massachusetts institute of technology in 1868. He was 1st lieutenant and quartermaster, 7th

U.S. colored troops, 1865-66; practised as a civil engineer, 1868-72; and in 1872 accepted the chair of civil engineering iu the University of Michi- gan where he was made dean of the department of engineering in 1895. He was elected a member of the American society of civil engineers, Jan. 4, 1882, and also became a member of Michigan and Detroit societies of civil engineers. He was associate editor of Engineering Xeics, 1876- 77. He is the author of: Graphical Method for the Analysis of Bridge Trusses; extended to Contin- uous Girders and Draw Spans (1875); Graphics: Roofs, Bridges, Arches (3 vols., 1876-79); Notes on Jiankine's Civil Engineering (1891); Structural Mechanics (1897); and contributions to scientific joui-nals.

GREENE, Charles Gordon, journalist, was born in Boscaweu, N.H., July 1, 1804. In 1813 by the death of his father he was left to the care of his brother Nathaniel, who entered him at Bradford academy under the tuition of Ben- jamin Greenleaf. After finishing at the acad- emy he passed some time in apprenticeship at his brother's printing office in Haverhill, and in 1822 followed Nathaniel to Boston, Mass., and entered the office of the Statesman. In 1825 he removed to Taunton, Mass., where he managed the Free Press but returned to Boston in 1826 and published the Spectator, which he soon aban- doned to resume his place in the office of the Sta'ryman. In 1827 he published the National PaUddium in Philadelphia and in 1828 the United States Telegraph in Washington, D.C. After the election of Jackson to the presidency he returned to Boston and purchased a part of the Statesman of which he became sole owner after several years. In 1831 he established the Boston Post which he conducted till 1875. He served several terms in the Massachusetts legis- lature, was aide to Governor Morton in 1840, was appointed naval officer of Boston by President Pierce in 1853, and by President Buchanan in 1857. He died in Boston, Mass., Sept. 27, 1886.

GREENE, Charles Warren, scientist, was born in Belchertown, Mass., Aug. 17, 1840; son of William and Harriet Baker (Gavit) Greene; grandson of Ebenezer and Sibyl (Hitchcock) Greene and a descendant of Thomas Greene, probably a native of Leicestershire, England, who is supposed to have settled in Ipswich, Mass., about 1635; removed to Maiden about 1630 and died in 1667. Charles was graduated from Brown in 1863; enlisted in the US. volim- teer army, July 19. 1862. and served till July 9, 1865, rising to the rank of captain. At the close of the war he resumed his study and was gi'adu- ated from the medical department of Dartmouth in 1868. He practised his profession from 1868 to 1873, after which he devoted his time to sci-