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* GREENVILLE. 256 GREENWEED. Flat River, which supplies abundant water- pijwer. and on the Pere Marquette and the To- ledo. Saginaw and JIuskegon railroads (Map: Michigan. H 5). It has manufactures of flour, refrigerators, lumber and lumber products, agri- cultural implements, etc.. and is an important market for agricultural produce, particularly for potatoes. The water-Ai'orks are owned by the municipality. Population, in 1890, 305G; in 1000, 3381." GREENVILLE. A city and the county-seat of Washington County, Miss., about 140 miles south by west of ilcniphis, Tenn. ; on the Missis- sippi River, and on tlie Southern and the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley railroads (Map: Missis- sippi, D 4 ) . It has steamboat connection with various river ports, an extensive trade in cotton, being the centre of a remarkably productive cotton-growing region, and several cottonseed-oil mills, large cotton-compresses, lumber-mills, etc. There are public parks and playgrounds, and the city owns its water-works. Population, in 1890, 6058; in 1900, 7642. GREENVILLE. A city and the county-seat of Darke County, Ohio. 36 miles northwest of Dayton; on Greenville Creek, and on the Cleve- land, Cincinnati, Chicago and Saint Louis, the Pittsburg. Cincinnati, Chicago and Saint Louis, and other railroads (Map: Ohio, A 5). It has a considerable trade in lumber, a foundry and machine-shops, lumber-mills, and fence-works. The surroimding countn' is agricultural. There are a Carnegie ]>ublic librarj', a fine court-house, an infirmary, and a children's home. The government is vested in a mayor, elected biennially, and a unicameral council. The city owns and operates its water-works. Greenville is built on the site of an Indian village, and was the home from 1805 to 1809 of Tecum.seh (q.v. ) and his brother the Prophet. After the battle of Fallen Timbers in 1794, Cieneral Wayne spent the winter of 1794- 95 here, and on August 3, 1795, concluded his famous treaty with the Indians. Greenville was first incorporated in 1832. Population, in 1890, 5473; in 1900, 5501. GREENVILLE. A borough in Mercer Coun- ty, Pa., 85 miles north by west of Pittsburg; on the Shenango River, and on the F>rie. the Pennsylvania, and other railroads (Map: Penn- sylvania, A 2 ). It is the seat of Thiel College (Lutheran), opened in 1870. The borough has several coal-mines, and its manufacturing inter- ests include railroad shops, tube-mills, foundries and machine-shops, saw and planing-mills, woolen- mills, flour-mills, carriage and wagon works, etc. Good water-power is derived from the Shenango River. Population, in 1890, 3674; in 1900, 4814. GREENVILLE. A city and the county-seat of Greenville County. S. C, 160 miles northeast of Atlanta, Ga. ; on the Southern, the Atlantic Coast Line, and the Columbia and Greenville railroads (Map: South Carolina, B 2). It is noted as an educational centre; among its insti- tutions are Furman University (Baptist), opened in 1852; Greenville Female College (Baptist), opened in 1854; Greenville College for Women, opened in 1894; and Chicora College (Presby- terian) for women. The city has numerous in- dustrial establishments, including cotton-mills, foiindries. carriage and wagon works, and smaller plants. Settled in 1784, Greenville was incor- porated in 1831. Tlie government is administered under a charter of 1885 by a mayor, chosen biennially, who appoints the board of health and police commission ; and a unicameral council, which elects the clerk, treasurer, chief of fire department, and sextons of cemeteries. Popula- tion, in lS!tO. 8007: in 1900, 11,800. GREENVILLE. A city and the county-seat of Hunt County, Te.xas, 56 miles northeast of Dallas ; on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas, the Texas Midland, and otlier railroads (Map: Texas, CJ 3 ). It is surrounded by an agricultural section, and has a large cotton trade, cotton-com- press, cottonseed-oil mills, etc. The city is the seat of Burleson and Holiness colleges, and has two public parks. Settled in 1844, Greenville was incorporated in 1875, the charter of that date still being in operation. The government is administered by a mayor and a municipal coun- cil elected every two years. The city owns and operates its electric-light plant. Population, in 1890, 4330; in 1900, 0860. GREEN VITRIOL, or Copperas. The com- mercial hydrated ferrous sulphate, which crystal- lizes in green monoclinic prisms. It is prepared by heating iron wire or ferrous sulphide in a dilute solution of sulphuric acid, filtering the solution, and concentrating the filtrate to crystal- lization. It is also found native as the mineral melanterite, usually as an efflorescence resulting from the decomposition of pyrite' or marcasite. GREEN'WALD, Em. uel (1811-85). An American theologian, born near Frederick. Md. After studying privately and receiving his license from the Lutheran SjTiod of Maryland in 1831, he settled at New Philadelphia, Ohio, which, until 1851, was his headquarters for general work among the scattered Lutherans of the Middle West. He subsequently held pastorates at Columbus, Ohio, Easton, Pa., and Lancaster, Pa. He was the founder and for many years the editor of the Lutheran Revieio; was president of the Pennsylvania Ministerium, the oldest Lutheran Synod in America, from 1873 to 1877, and the next year presided over the Lutheran Diet, assembled in Philadelphia. His published works include: The Lutheran Reformation (1807); The Foreign Mission Work of Louis IJarms (1808); fiprinkiing the True Mode of Baptism (1876) : The True Church: Its Wa;/ of Justification and Its HoJij Communion (1876): and Romanism and the Reformation (1880). Ho also pulilished several books for children. GREEN'W AY, Thomas (1838— ). A Cana- dian statesman, born in England, who came to Ontario in 1844 with his father, a farmer. He took up land in Manitolia in 1878, and was elected member of Parliament for Mountain the following year. In 1887 he became head of the Liberals and therefore Prime Minister of Mani- toba when his party came into power. His ad- ministration was noted for attempts to do away with French as an official language in the prov- ince anil also to abolish the separate schools. GREENWEED. A name given to certain half-shrubby species of Genista, a genus of the natural order Legimiinosfp. Dyers' greenweed ( Crfiistn tinctoria ). a species one or two feet high, with lanceolate leaves and terminal spiked ra- cemes of pale-yellow- flowers, is freqiient in woods. * meadows, and hilly pastures in most parts of Europe, in the temperate parts of Asia, and