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 GREENLEAF

GREENOUGH

tory of the Slate of Mtinr (1831); Jlistonj of the Churches of XeiD I'ycA (1S46) ; Thinirjhls on Prayer (1847) ; A Sketch of Lyndon, Vt. (1«52) ; Genealogy of the Greenleaf Family (1854;, and A Sketch of Wells, in Maine Historical Collections (1831). He died in Brooklyn, N.Y., April 24, 1865.

QREENLEAF, Simon, educator, was born in Newbiu-ypi>rt, Mass., Deo. 5, 1783; son of Moses ftnd Lydia (I'arsons), grandson of the Hon. Jonathan a:i4 Mary (Presbury), great-grandson of Daniel auJ Sarah (Moody), gi'eat- grandson of John and Elizabeth (Hills), great^ grandson of Step len an 1 Elizabeth (Coffin) and great* grand- son of EJmu.i.l Greenleaf who came to America and settlei in Newbury, Mass., about 1635. He attended the Latin school in Nevvburyport and at the age of eigliteen began the study of law with Ezekiel Whitman of New Gloucester, Maine. He was admitted to the bar in Cumber- laud county, Maine, in 1805, opened an office first in Standish, then in Gray, and in 1817 re- moved to Portland, Maine. In 1830 and 1831 he represented Portland in the Maine legislature and in August, 1820, became reporter of the su- preme court under the act of the new state, passeJ June 34, 1820. His service in that posi- tion ended in July, 1833. He was Royal profes- sor of law at Harvard, 1833—16 ; Dane professor of the same branch succeeding Judge Story, 1846-48; and professor emeritus, 1848-53. He was at one time president of the Massachusetts Bible society, and was a member of the Massa- chusetts historical society and the American philosophical society. He was married, Sept. 18, 180G, to Hannah, daughter of Ezra and Susanna (Wliitmau) Kingman of Bridgewater, Mass. He received the honorary degree of M.A. from Bow- doin in 1817 and that of LL.D. from Harvard in 1834, from Amherst in 1845, and from the Uni- versity of Alabania in 1 853. He is the author of : Origin and Principles of Freemasonry (1830) ; Full Collection of Cases, Overruled, Denied, Doubted or Limited in their Application (1831) ; Pe- ports of Cases in the Siipreme Court of Maine, 2830-31 (9 vols., 1832-35); Pemarks on the Ex- clusion of Atheists as 'Witnesses (1839); Treatise on the Law of Evidence (3 vols., 1843-53) ; Examina- tion of the Testimony of the Four Evangelists, hy the Jiules of Evidence administered in Courts of Jus- tice, with an AccouM of the Trial of Jesus (1846) ; and a discourse on the life and character of Joseph Story (1845). He also prepared and adapted to United States practice an enlarged edition of Digest of the Laivs of England respecting Peal Prnprrty by William Cruise (3 vols., 1849- 50). lie died in fainbriilge, Mass., Oct. 6, 1853.

GREENLY, William L., governor of Michi- gan, was born in Hamilton, N.Y., Sept. 18, 1813; son of Thomas and Nancy Greenly. He was pre-

pared for college at Hamilton academy ; was graduated at Union college in 1831, received his A.M. degree in 1834, and was admitted to the bar in Albany in the latter year. He i^ractised law at Eatjn, N.Y., imtil October, 1836, when he re- move J to Adrian, Mich. He was a state senator, 1833-40, and again 1842-43, being president pro tempore in 1840 and 1842. He was lieutenant- governor of the state in 1847. and on March 4, 1817, became acting governor upon the resigna- tion of Alpheus Felch, elected U.S. senator, and he sarved as governor ex officio till Jan. 1, 1848. He was mayor of Adrian in 1858, justice of the pease for twelve years and a regent of the Uni- versity of Michigan, 1846-48. He died at Eaton Rapids. Mich., in 1883.

QREENOUQH, Henry, architect, was born in Boston, Mass., Oct. 5, 1807; son of David and Elizabeth (Bender), grandson of John and Mahitable (Dillingham), great-grandson of Deacon Thomas and Martha (Clark), great^ grandson of John and Elizabeth (Grass), and great^ grandson of William and Ruth (Swift) Greenough of English birth, who were married Oct. 10, 1660. He entered Harvard in 1823, and left before the expiration of his junior year. He studied painting and architecture at Florence, Italy, 1831-34, 1845-50 and in 18G9. He planned the construction of the Cambridge city hall and the Agassiz museum, and was the architect of numerous dwellings in and about Boston, includ- ing the houses of Guyot, Agassiz and Judge Loring, and was superintendent of the decora- tion of the Crystal Palace, New York city, in 1852. He was married, March 38, 1837, to Frances, daughter of Francis and Mary (Tunnalley) Boott of Derby, England. He received the degree of A.M. from Harvard in 1853. He is the author of Ernest Carroll (1859) ; Apelles (1860) ; and a trans- lation of Jules Sandeau's Sacs et Parchemins, which was published in the Boston Courier. He died in Cambridge, Mass., Oct. 31, 1883.

QREENOUQH, Horatio, sculptor, was born in Boston, Ma.ss. , Sept. 6, 1805; son of David and Elisabeth (Bender) Greenough, and grandson of John and Mehitable (Dillingham) Greenough. He was graduated at Harvard in 1835 and while there formed a friendship with Washington Alls- ton. In his early youth he had shown artistic abil- ity and while in college he designed a monument for Bunker Hill, from which the present monu- ment was erected. At the completion of his college coiu'se he went to Italy and made his per- nianent residence at Rome, where he did most of his work. On accoiuit of the disturbed condition of the country he left Rome in 1851 and visited the United States to fulfil an order from congress for a group of four historical figures entitled " The Rescue," and he devoted about eight years