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city, 1856-63. building a new aqueduct over the Higli Bridge and a new reservoir iu Central Park. He joined tlie volunteer army, Jan. 21, 1863, as colonel of the 60th New York and was promoted brigadier-general, April 28. He was brevetted major-general of volunteers, March 13, 1865, for gallant and meritorious services during the war. and was honorably mustered out, April 30, 1866. His conspicuous services during the civil war were as brigade -commander at Cedar Mountain, Va., Aug. 9, 1863; as commander of the 2d division of the 13th corps at Antietam; as brigade-commander at Chancellorsville ; as brigade-commander at Gettysburg, wliere at Gulp's Hill he held with his brigade the right wing of the Anny of the Potomac against the onslaught of more than a division of the Confed- erates and saved the position of the wing ; and at Wauhatchie near Chattanooga, Oct. 38, 1863, where he was dangerousl)' wounded. Upon re- covering he joined the army at Newbern, N.C., January, 1865, and took part in the battle of Kinston, where he had a horse shot under him. He commanded a brigade at Goldsboro and in Slocum's corps in the march to Washington, D.C., where the army was disbanded. He "as commissioner of the Croton aqueduct department and its chief engineer, 1867-71 ; and was chief engineer of public works, Washington. D.C., 1871-73. He was president of the American society of civil engineers. 1875-77 : and president of the New York genealogical and biographical society. He was commissioned 1st lieutenant in the regular service, Aug. 3, 1894. and retired, August 11. under act of Aug. 1, 1894. He was mar- ried in 1837 to Martha, daughter of Samuel Dana of Charlestown, Mass., and three sons survived him: George Sears, Jr., Charles T. and Francis Vinton Greene. He was the oldest living grad- uate of the U.S. military academy in 1898. He died at Morristown, N.J., Jan. 28, 1899.

GREENE, George Sears, civil engineer, was born in Lexington, Ky., Nov. 26. 1837; son of George Sears and Martha (Dana) Greene. He was educated at Harvard, but left college before graduation in order to take a position as assistant engineer with his father, who was chief engineer of the Croton aqueduct department, New York city. He was afterward engaged in surveying various railroads in the United States and in Cuba, and in developing copper mines in the Lake Superior region. He introduced improvements in civil engineering implements that came into general use and were adopted by the U.S. coast survey. He was engineer-in-chief of the depart- ment of docks. New York city, 1875-98. He was elected a member of the American society of civil engineers in 1867; was director. 1882-90; vice-president, 1885-86. and treasurer. 1887-90.

GREENE, George Washington, educator, was

born iu East Greeuwicdi, R.X., Ajiril 8, 1811; son of Nathanael ami Anna ;\Iaria (Clarke) Greene. His father was the second son of Maj.-Gen. Na- thanael Greene, and his mother a niece of Gov. Samuel Ward, member of the Continental con- gress. He entered Brown university in 1825, but left to travel in Europe for his health after he had passed his junior year. He was U.S. consul at Rome, 1837^5. He returned to the United States in 1848, and was instructor of modern languages in Brown university, 1848-52 ; a teacher and author in New York city, 1852-65; at East Greenwich, R.I., 1865-83; and lecturer at Cornell university on American history, 1871-73. He is the author of: Life of Creii. Nathanael Greene in Sparks's American biography (1846) ; Primary Lessons in French (1849) ; Companion to Ollendorff s French Grammar (185U) ; Primanj Lessons in Italian (1850) ; History and Geor/raphy of the Middle Ayes (1851); Biographical Studies (1860); Historical View of the American lievolution (1865) ; Life of Nathanael Greene (3 vols., 1867-71); The German Element in the War of America (1876) ; and Short History of Rhode Island (1877). He received the honorary degree of A.M. from Brown university in 1833, and that of LL.D. from Bowdoin in 1875. He died in East Greenwicli. R.I., Feb. 2, 1883.

GREENE, Herbert Eveleth, educator, was born in Newton, Mass., Aug. 27, 1858; son of William Lyman and Sarah (Eveleth) Greene, and grandson of Aaron and Mary (Miller) Greene and of John and Cliloe (Gates) Eveleth. He was gi'aduated from Harvard in 1881, and took a graduate course in English literature and philol- ogy, receiving the degree of A.M. in 1884, and that of Ph.D. in 1888. He was professor of the English language and literature at Wells college, Aurora, New York, 1891-93, and became collegi- ate professor of English at Johns Hopkins uni- versity in 1893. He was chosen treasurer of the Modern Language association of America in 1896. He is the author of numerous criticisms, literary, musical and dramatic.

GREENE, Jacob Lyman, soldier, was born at Waterford. Maine, Aug. 9, 1837; son of Capt. Jacob H. Greene. He attended the University of Michigan, 1857-58, and engaged in the prac- tice of law at Lapeer, Mich., until 1861 when he enlisted as a private in the 7th Michigan in- fantry. He was commissioned 1st lieutenant of his company in 1863 but owing to sickness, re- tired from the service, returning in 1863 to accept the appointment of assistant adjutant-general on Gen. George A. Custer's staff. He was captured at the battle of Trevilian Station. June 11, 1864. and was confined in Libby, Macon and Charle.ston prisons. He was exchanged, April 8, '*<65. and joined General Custer at Burkeville,