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* GREEN COVE SPRINGS. 246 GREENE. on the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Rail- road (Map: Florida, G •^). It is a popular re- sort, noted for a warm sulphur spring which is frequented because of its medicinal properties. The town is engaged chielly in growing fruits and vegetables, and lumbering, and has some manu- factures. Population, in 1S90, HOG; in 1000, 929. GREENE, Aluekt Goetox (1S02-CS). An Amcriian minor poet, born in Providence, R. I. He graduated at Brown in 1S20, was admitted to the bar in 1823, and from 18o2 lie held the clerk- ship of the town as well as that of the Municipal Court of Providence, of which he was chosen judge in 1858. After his health failed in 1867, he removed to Cleveland, where he died. Pie was actively interested in education, aided in found- ing the Providence Athenaeum, and was president of the Rhode Island Historical Society. He began the important collection of American poetry now in the library of Brown University, and known as the Harris Collection. He was the author of several popular poems, especially "Old Grimes'' and "The Baron's Last Banquet." GREENE, Cn.KLES EznA (1842—). An American civil engineer, born in Cambridge, Mass., and educated at Harvard University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He served as quartermaster d)iring the last two years of the Civil War, and was United States assist- ant engineer from 1870 to 1871, w-hen he was appointed to the chair of civil engineering at the University of Michigan. His publications in- clude: Graphical Method for the Analysis of Bridge Trusses (1875); Trusses and Arches: Graphics for Enpincers. Architects, and Builders (3 vols., 187G-70) ; Xotcs on Iiankine's Civil Engineering (1891); and Htructural Mechanics (1897). GREENE, Ch.vkles Gorpon (1804-8G). An American journalist, born at Boscawen, N. H. After short engagements on the Taunton Free Press, the Boston (Spectator, and on the Boston Stalcsjnan, he settled in Philadelphia in 1827, and started the National Palladinm, in which the Presidential cam]jaign of Andrew Jackson was vigorously advocated. In 1828 Greene was on the staflf of the United States Telegraph in Washington, until after .Jackson's election, when he returned to the Boston Statesman, of which he later became the proprietor. He founded the Boston Post in 1831 ; served in the Massachu- setts Leajislature ; and was naval officer of Bos- ton from 1853 to 1861. GREENE, CnAELE.s W.kre?.i (1S40-). An American journalist and author, born at Bel- chcrtown, JIass. He graduated at Brown Uni- versity, and received his M.D. from Dartmouth College (1867). His writings include articles on natural science contributed to various cncyclo- prcdias: Animals: Their Ilomes and Habits (18SG); and Birds: Their Homes and Habits (1886). GREENE, CnEiSTOPiiER (1737-81). An American soldier, born in Warwick, E. T. He served in the Colonial Legislature of Rhode Island from 1770 to 1772, and in 1775 became a lieutenant of the Kentish Guards, organized in Kent Cotinty. He was rapidly promoted, dis- played great courage at Bunker Hill, and was captured during General Arnold's attack tipon Quebec. He was made colonel in 1776, and in October of the same year was assigned to the command of Fort Mercer on the Delaware River, which he gallantly defended against a Hessian attack in 1777. Late in 1780 he was ordered south to aid Gen. Nathanael Greene, and in May, 1781, was killed at his post on the Croton River. Westchester County, X. Y. GREENE, Edw'.ed Lee (1843—). An Ameri- can botanist, born at Hopkinton, R. 1. He was educated at Albion College, Wisconsin, studied for the ministry, apd was an Episcopal clergj'- man from 1871 to 1SS5, when he became a Roman Catholic. From 1885 to 1S95 he was associate professor of botany at the University of California, and thereafter held a similar posi- tion at the Catholic University in Washington, D. C. In 1893 he was president of the Interna- tional Congress of Botanists, assembled in con- nection with the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago. His publications comprise : Illustra- tions of "West American Oal:s (1889-SO) ; Flora Frane-iseuna (1891) ; and Pi(f07ii'a. (4 vols., 1887- 90), besides many papers in botanical magazines. GREENE, Francis Vinton (1850—). An American soldier and author; son of Gen. George Sears Greene, born in Providence, R. I. He grad- uated at West Point in 1870. After two years in the artillery service he was transferred to the United States corps of engineers (1872), and was assistant astronomer and surveyor on the Northwest boundary survey (1872-76). During the Russo-Turkish War he was military attaehg to the United States Legation at Saint Peters- burg, and after accompanying the Russian Army in the field from the Danube (July, 1877) to Con- stantinople (rlarch. 1878). received from the Em- peror the decorations of Saint Vladimir and Saint Anne for bravery at the battles of the Shipka Pass and Philippopolis. In 18SG he resigned from the army, but during the Spanish-American War he served in the Philippines, and received the commission of major-general after the capture of Manila. He retired again in 1899. In 1903 he became police commissioner of Xew York City. His publications include: A series of works on mili- tary campaigns, including The Pussian Arnn/ and Its' Campaigns in Turkey (2 vols.. 1879) and The Mississippi Campaigns of the Civil H'or (1880) ; and Life cf Xathanael Greene (1893). GREENE, George Sears (1801-99). An American soldier and civil engineer; father of Gen. Francis V. Greene. He was born in War- wick, R. I., graduated at West Point in 1823, where for several years he was an instructor, and in 1836 resigned from the service to become a civil engineer. He was engaged in the constrtic- tion and location of railroads in Maine, Massa- chusetts. Rhode Island, New Y'ork. and Mary- land until 1857, when he entered the service of the Croton aqueduct department of New York Citv. He subseqtiently built the reservoir in Central Park, and the enlargement of High Bridge. In 1862 he reentered the Union Army as colonel of the Sixtieth New York Volunteers, was made a brigadier-general soon afterwards, com- manded his brigade at Cedar Mountain, and led a division at Antietam. At Gettysburg he was stationed on the right wint' of the Federal army, and on the night of .July 2. 18G3. withstood an attack by a superior force of Confederates. In September of the same year (1863) he was transferred to the West, and on October 28th,