County, New York, situated on the Hudson opposite Albany

Population (1890), 7,301. Green castle (grēn'kas-1). The capital of Putnam County, Indiana, 40 miles west by south of Indianapolis. It is the seat of De Pauw University (Methodist Episcopal). Population (1890), 4,390. of brigadier-general in 1887, and was head of the Weather Bureau from that time until it pa ed under the control of the agricultural department. He has published "Three Years of Arctic Service" (1886). Green (grēn), Anna Katherine. The maiden name and pseudonym of Mrs. Rohlfs, an American novelist, born in 1846. Green, Ashbel. Born at Hanover, N. J., July 6, 1762: died at Philadelphia, May 19, 1848. An American Presbyterian clergyman, president of Princeton College 1812-22. Green, Sir Henry. In Shakspere's "King Richard II.," a creature of the king. Green, Horace. Born at Chittenden, Vt., Dec. 24, 1802: died at Sing Sing, N. Y., Nov. 29, 1866. An American physician, author of works on diseases of the throat and air-pa ages. Green, Jacob. Born at Philadelphia, July 26, 1790: died at Philadelphia, Feb. 1, 1841. An American man of science, son of Ashbel Green. He published "Chemical Philosophy" (1829), etc. Green, John Richard. Born at Oxford, England, Dec. 12 (1), 1837: died at Mentone, March 7, 1883. A noted English historian. He was graduated from Oxford in 1859; became a curate in London in 1860; and in 1866 was appointed incumbent of St. Philip's, Stepney. He became librarian at Lambeth in 1869. He published a "Short History of the English People (1874), "A History of the English People” (1877–80), "The Making of England" (1882), and "The Conquest of England" (1883). IMG:content-0479.png:[ocr errors] Green, Norvin. Born at New Albany, Ind., April 17, 1818: died at Louisville, Ky., Feb. 12, 1893. An American financier. He graduated at the medical school in the University of Louisville 1840, and subsequently served three terms in the Kentucky legislature. He became president of the Southwestern Telegraph Company about 1854, and was afterward vice-president of the American Telegraph Company and of the Western Union Telegraph Company (1878). He was president of the Louisville, Cincinnati, and Lexington Railroad 1869-73 Greene (grēn), Charles Gordon. Born at Boscawen, N. H., July 1, 1804: died at Boston, Sept. 27, 1886. An American journalist. He founded, in 1831, the Boston "Morning Post," which became a prominent organ of the Democratic party, and the management of which he retained until 1875. Greene, George-a-. See George -a-Greene . Greene, George Washington. Born at East Green wich, R. I., April 8, 1811: died there, Feb. 2, 1883. An American historical and biographical writer, grandson of Nathanael Greene. Among his works are "Historical View of the American Revolution" (1865), "Life of Nathanael Greene" (1867-68), etc. Greene, Maurice. Born at London about 1696: died at London, Dec. 1, 1755. An English organist and composer, principally of church music. His chief work is "Forty Select Anthems" (1743). Greene, Nathanael. Born in Warwick Co., R. I., May 27, 1742: died near Savannah, Ga., June 19, 1786. An American general. He distinguished him self at Trenton, Princeton, Brandy wine, German town, Mon mouth, elsewhere; Gates command of the southern army in 1780; conducted the retreat from the Catawba to the Dan in 1781; and commanded at Guilford Court House, Hobkirk's Hill, and Eutaw Springs in 1781. Greene, Nathaniel. Born at Boscawen, N. H., May 20, 1797: died at Boston, Nov. 29, 1877. An American journalist, brother of Charles Gordon Greene. He founded, in 1821, the Boston "Statesman," which became a prominent organ of the Democratic party in Ma achusetts, and was postmaster of Boston 1829-40 and 1845-49. He translated a number of French, German, and Italian works. Greene, Robert. Born at Norwich, England, 1560: died at London, Sept. 3, 1592. An English dramatist, novelist, and poet. He was educated at Clare Hall, Cambridge, where he took his master's degree in 1583. He was subsequently incorporated at Oxford. After leaving the university he seems to have led a di olute life abroad for some time. In 1592, after 10 years of reckle living and hasty literary production, he died after "a debauch of pickled herrings and Rhenish," deserted by all his friends. Gabriel Harvey attacked him shortly after his death in "Four Letters and Certain Sonnets, etc." Meres, Chettle, Nashe, and others defended him, and Nashe, who had also been attacked, published his "Strange News," directed more against Harvey than in defense of Greene. The quarrel was prolonged. Greene's fame rests mostly on the songs and eclogues which are interspersed through his prose works. His principal works are tracts and pamphlets, "Mamillia, etc." (entered on "Stationers' Register" 1580), "Gwydonius, the Carde of