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ton planter ami scraper. At the time of his death he was piejiariiig several models ft)r pat- ents. In 179!) while residing in Adams county, Miss., he built a cotton gin for himself and for a number of years did the public ginning for the neighborliood. He was married on May 24, 1795, to Phebe, daughter of John and Anna (Brown) Jones of Jefferson county, Miss. Slie died Dec. 39, 1808, and lie married Pamela Gove. He died near Warrenton. Mi.ss., Oct. Vi, 1819.

GREENLEAF, Ezekiel Price, philanthropist, was born in Boston, Mass., May 22, 1T90; son of the Hon. Thomas and Mary Deming (Price), grandson of Dr. John and Priscilla (Brown), great-grandson of the Rev. Daniel and Elizabeth (Gooking) and a descendant of Edmund Green- leaf, 163.5. He attended the Boston Latin school, and as a young man engaged in mercantile pur- suits, first in South Carolina and then in Bos- ton. Failing in business in 1830 he took up his residence in Quincy, Mass., and there lived tlie life of an anchorite for half a century. By his will dated Feb. 19, 1870, the bulk of his estate was left to Harvard for scholarships and for the maintenance of the college library, "to be called and known as the ' Price-Greenleaf Fund." " When the fund was turned over to the college treasurer it amounted to §711,000. He died at Boston, Mass., Dec. 4, 1886.

GREENLEAF, Halbert Stevens, representa- tive, was born in Guilford. Vt., A|)ril 12, 1827; son of Jeremiah and Elvira Eunice (Stevens), grandson of Daniel and Huldah (Hopkins), great- grandsou of Stephen and Eunice (Fairbanks), and greaf" grandson of Stephen and Elizabeth (Coffin) Greenleaf. He was brought up on a farm and engaged in various occupations till 1859 when he became a member of the firm of Linus Yale, Jr., & Co., lockmakers in Philadel- phia. He removed to Shelburne Falls, Mass., in 1861, and organized the Yale & Greenleaf Lock Co., of which he became business manager. In 1862 lie enlisted as a private in Company E, 52d Massachusetts volunteers, and was commissioned captain September 12, and colonel Oct. 15, 1862. He participated in the battle of Indian Ridge, at Jackson Cross Roads, and in the assault on Port Hudson. June 14, 1863. At the expiration of his military service he was given command of the steamer Col. Benedict on the lower Jlississippi till the end of the war, when he took charge of the salt works on Petite Anse Isle, St. Mai'y"s Parish, La. In June, 1867, he removed to Rochester, N.Y., and became a lock manufacturer. He was a Democratic representative from the thir- tieth New York district in the 48th and 52d con- gresses, 1883-85 and 1891-93. He was married April 12, 1827, to Jean F., daughter of Dr. John Brooks of Beruardstown, Mass.

GREENLEAF, James, speculator, was born in Boston. Mass.. June 0, 1765; son of tlie Hon. William and Mary (Brown) Greenleaf; grandson of the Rev. Daniel and Elizabetli (Gooking) Greenleaf; and a descendant of Edmund Green- leaf (1574-1671), who immigrated to America in 1635, and settled in Newbury, Mass. He was appointed early in life U.S. consul to Amsterdam, where he amassed a fortiuie. Returning to the United States in 1795 he embarked in speculation with Robert Morris and John Nicholson, and with them founded the " North American land company."' Afterward he took up his residence in the District of Columbia. When the Federal capital was located on the Potomac river Robert Morris and James Greenleaf purchased from the commissioners six thousand lots in the pros])ect- ive city of Washington at the price of 8480,000, and as many more from other persons. Mr. Greenleaf"s second wife, to whom he was mar- ried on April 26. 1800, was Ann Penn, daughter of James and Elizabeth (Lawrence) Allen. Her father was the founder of Allentown, Pa., and her mother a granddaughter of Tench Francis. He died in Washington, D.C., Sept. 17, 1843.

GREENLEAF, Jonathan, clergyman, was born in Newburyport, Mass., Sept. 4, 1785; son of Moses and Lydia (Parsons) Greenleaf and brother of the Hon. Simon Greenleaf (1783- 1853), and of Moses Greenleaf. who was born in Newburyport, Mass., Oct. 17, 1777, married Feb. 11, 1805, Persis, daughter of Deacon Ebenazer Poor of East Andover Maine, published ".Statis- tical View of the District of Maine '• ( 1816) and a "Survey of the State of Maine" with a map (1829), and died in Williamsburg, Maine, March 20, 1834. Jonathan was reared on a farm at New Gloucester, Maine, attended the common schools, studied theology with the Rev. Francis Brown, D.D., of North Yarmouth, Maine, and was licensed to preach by the Cumberland asso- ciation at Saco, Maine, in .September, 1814. He was ordained at Wells, Maine, March 8, 1815, by the York County association as pastor of the First Congregational church. In 1828 he was dismissed and removed to Boston, Mass., as pas- tor of the Mariners' church. He was corre- sponding secretary of the American Seamen's Friend society. New York ?ity, 1833-41, and after supplying for a few months the vacant Congregational church at Lyndon, Vt., he es- tablished in 1843 the Wallabout Presbyterian church in Brooklyn, N.Y., and remained its pastor till his death. He was married Nov. 3, 1814, to Sarah Johnson of New Gloucester, Maine. The honorary degree of M.A. was con- ferred upon him by Bowdoin in 1824 and that of S.T.D. by the College of New Jersey in 1863. He is the author of S/cetclie.s of the Ecclesiastical His-