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 GREENHALGE

GREEN LEAF

the refugees. He was associated with Daniel H. Chamberlain in the defence of Cadet Whittaker at the court martial held in New York city, the case lasting over two jears and costing the U.S. government over §50,000. He represented South Carolina in the Republican conference held in New York Aug. 4, 1880. which imited the Repub- lican factions for Garfield. He was president of the South Cai-olina club at Washington, 1876-80, and as such delivered an address of welcome to Jolin A. Logan on his re-election, and represented South Carolina in the Union League of America, 1875-81. He was a personal friend of Gen. U. S. Grant; one of the trustees of the Grant monu- ment association and its secretary, 1885-93. He was chief examiner of the civil service boards of New York city and county, 188.5-90. He was a delegate to the Unitarian conference at Saratoga, N.Y., in 1894; a life member of the American missionary association at Lowell, Mass. ; secretary of the Irish Parliamentary funds, which raised $150,000 for the Parnell fund, 1886-87, and an in- corporator and vice-president of the Riverside Republican club. He took an active part in the campaign of 1896, and was appointed U.S. consul to Bombay by President McKinley in June, 1898, but was afterward transferred to organize the consulate at Vladivostok, Siberia. He was an active Republican campaign orator ; was elected a inember of the American philological associa- tion, and received the honorary degree of LL.D. from the College of Liberia in 1883 and from Howard university in 1898. His notable public addresses include : Charles Sumner (June, 1874) ; William Lloyd (raiTisoii (June, 1879") ; Socrates as a Teacher (April, 1880) ; The Intellectual Position of the Neyro (July, 1880) ; Free Speech in Ireland (October, 1883) ; Benjamin Banneker (February, 1883); Ilenrij Highland Garnet (May, 1882); and An Africrn, Hosciiis (June. 1883).

GREENHALGE, Frederic Thomas, governor of Massachusetts, was born in Clitheroe, Lan- cashire, England, July 19, 1843; son of William and Jane (Slater) Greenhalge. His father, an engraver, came from Edenfield, Lancashire, Eng- land, in 1855, to take charge of the Merrimac print works, Lowell, Mass. He was educated in the Lowell public and high schools and at Harvard college, where he matriculated in 1859. On the death of his father in 1863 he left Harvard in his junior year and engaged in teach- ing; as an employee of the American bolt com- pany, Lowell ; and in the study of law. In 1864 he went south to join the Federal army at New- bern, N.C., where he served in the commissary department and as a commander of colored troops. Here he was attacked with malaria fever and he returned to Lowell and resumed the study of law. He was admitted to the Mid-

dlesex bar in 1865. He was a member of the Lowell common council, 1868-09; a member of the school committee, 1871-73; justice of the police court, 1874-84; mayor of the city, 1880-81 j and was defeated in the election for state senator in 1881. He was a delegate to the Republican national convention of 1884 ; a representative in the state legislature, 1885 , city solicitor, 1888 , and a representative in the 51st congress, 1889-91, being de- feated in 1890 for re- election. He was elected governor of Massachusetts in 1893 as successor to William E. Russell, Democrat, wha had held the office for three years, and he was re- elected in 1894 and 1895. He was president of the History club, of the Humane society and of the City institution for savings. He received the degree of A.B. from Harvard in 1870. See The Life and Work of Frederic Tliomas Greenhahje, by James Ernest Nesmith ( 1897). He died in Lowell, Mass., March 5, 1896.

GREENLEAF, Benjamin, educator, was born in Haverhill, Mass., Sept. 35, 1786; son of Caleb and Susanna (Emerson), grandson of Timothy and Susanna (Greenleaf), great-grandson of John and Abigail, great^ grandson of Samuel and Sarah (Kent), great^ grandson of Stephen and Elizabeth (Coffin), and gieat' gi-,andson of Edmund Greenleaf who settled in Newbury, Mass., about 1635. He was graduated from Dart- mouth in 1813, and was preceptor of Bradford academy from Dec. 13, 1814, to April 6, 1836. He represented Bradford in the state legislature in 1837-39, and in 1839 founded the Bradford teachers' seminary which he conducted until its discontinuance in 1848. He was a pioneer educator in the natural sciences by illustrated public lectures and in leading teachers to dis- pense with text-books in the recitation room. He was married on Nov. 30, 1831, to Lucretia, youngest daughter of Col. James Kimball of Bradford, Mass. As an author he was widely known. He published a tract of eight pages en- titled Bules of Syntax about 1835. He also worked off the mathematical calculations for a number of almanacs, notably for the Cherokee IVtission. He published text-books on arithmetic, mental and written, algebra, geometry, and trigonom- etry, and at the time of his death left in manu- script a System of Practical Surveying. His text-books began to issue from the press in 1835,