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and continued in new works and new editions almost to the tinae of his death. Some were translated into modern Greek and into Burmese. He died in Bradford, Mass., Oct. 29, 1864.

GREENLEAF, Charles Ravenscroft, surgeon, was lioni in Carlisle, Pa., Jan. 2. 1S3S; son of the Rev. Patrick Ileiirvand Alargaret Laugliton (John- son), grandson of the Hon. Simon and Hannah (Kingman), great-grandson of C'apt. Moses and Lydia (Parsons), and a descendant in the 9th ^ genei'ation from Ed-

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(Dole) Greenleaf of Newbury, Mass. He was taken by his parents to Charles- town, Mass., in 1843, and there attended the public schools, re- moving later to Mad- ison, Ind., and to Cincinnati, Ohio. He was graduated from the Medical college of Ohio, at Cincinnati, in 1800, and was resident physician to the Good Samaritan hospital in Cincinnati until the breaking out of the civil war. On April 19, 1861, he was appointed assistant surgeon, 5th Ohio infantry, and served with his regiment on the field until July 19, 1861, when he became assistant surgeon, U.S.A., and was assigned to the staff of General Mansfield, commanding the defences of Washington. He was later trans- ferred to the staff of General McClellan and served throughout the Peninsular campaign, re- ceiving honorable mention from that general for services at Yorktown, and in the battles of Fair Oaks, Hanover Court House, Gaines's Mill and Savage's Station. He served at the battle of An- tietam and as medical director of the base hospi- tals at Hagerstown and Harrisburg. In 1862-63 he was executive officer in chai-ge of the Mower general hospital at Philadelphia. In 1863 he was appointed assistant medical director at Baltimore, and participated in the Gettysburg campaign. On March 13, 186.5, he was brevetted captain and major for faithful and meritorious service dur- ing the war. He was tlien assigned to the staff of Gen. George H. Thomas and served as his attending surgeon until 1869, receiving the com- mission of captain, July 28, 1S66. He was on frontier duty among the Nez Perces Indians in Idaho, 1869-74, and served in Alabama, Tennes- see and Louisiana, 1874-78. He was commissioned major, June 26, 1876, and from 1878 to 1882 was on frontier duty In Montana, afterward serving at the recruiting depot in Columbus, Ohio, and

on the staff of General Terry at Chicago until ordered to Washington as the senior assistant to the surgeon-general. During his service in Wasli- iiigton he represented the army medical depart- ment as a delegate to the American medical association, to the American association for physical education, to the As.sociation of niilitary surgeons of the United States of which he was honorary president, to the International medical congress at Rome, Italy, and in investigating medico-military metliods in the armies of Great Britain, France, Germany and Switzerland. He also organized and administered the Hospital corps, U.S. army, which was authorized by con- gress. He was promoted deputy surgeon -general, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel in 1891, and in 1893 was placed in charge of the medical sup- l)lies of the Pacific coast, being stationed at San Francisco. He was promoted assistant surgeon- general with the rank of colonel in 1896, and in the same year was also appointed honorary pro- fessor of military hygiene at the University of California. At the outbreak of the war between Spain and the United States, in April, 1898, he was appointed chief surgeon of the army in the field, and accompanied General Miles to Cuba and Porto Rico, taking part in those campaigns. In December, 1898, he was apjjointed medical inspec- tor of the army in which capacity he served un- til October, 1899, when he was assigned as chief surgeon to the army in the Pliilippine Islands, with headquarters at Manila. He was married to Georgiana Henri, daugliter of George Henry Frederick Franck, and granddaughter of Baron Frederick Franck of Germany.

GREENLEAF, David, inventor, was born in Boston, Mass., Marcli 9. 1703; son of Israel and Prudence (Wliitcomb) Greenleaf; grandson of Dr. Daniel and Silence (Marsh) Greenleaf and a descendant of Edmund Greenleaf who settled in Newbury, Mass., about 16315. He left home when about twelve years of age, and joined his brotlier John in the Continental army. Leaving Massa- chusetts in 1779, he went to South Carolina and there procuring a horse started across the coun- try to the Ohio river. When he reached the river he took a flatboat and descending the river landed in Natchez, Territory of Mississippi, then a province of Spain, about the year 1780. He served .^ix months under the Spanish govern- ment against the Indians. After the province was acknowledged by treaty with Spain to be within the limits of the United States, he be- came a member of the first legislature under the territorial government. He built the first cotton gin in Mississippi about 178.5, inventing a turning lathe to sharpen the teeth of the gin saws. He also invented the square screw press for cotton bales, a roller machine, and in 1816 a cot-