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=Greene, Charles Ezra.= _Ms._, 1842-1903. A professor of civil
engineering in the University of Michigan from 1872. Graphical Method
for Analysis of Bridge Trusses; Trusses and Arches; Notes on Rankine’s
Civil Engineering. _Wil._
=Greene, Charles Warren.= _Ms._, 1840- ----. Nephew of S. S. Greene,
_infra_. A Massachusetts physician who has written upon natural
science. Animals, their Homes and Habits; Birds, their Homes and Habits.
=Greene, Edward Lee.= _R. I._, 1843- ----. A professor of botany in the
University of California. Illustrations of West American Oaks; Flora
Franciscanæ.
=Greene, Mrs. Frances Harriet [Whipple].= _See McDougal, Mrs._
=Greene, Francis Vinton.= _R. I._, 1850-1900. A captain in the United
States army who resigned in 1886. The Russian Army and its Campaigns
in Turkey in 1877-78; Sketches of Army Life in Texas; The Mississippi,
a military work; Life of General Greene. _Ap. Scr._
=Greene, George Washington.= _R. I._, 1811-1883. An historian who
was professor of American history at Cornell University from 1872.
Historical Studies; The German Element in the American War of
Independence; Short History of Rhode Island; Historical View of the
American Revolution; Life of General Nathanael Greene; Biographical
Studies; History and Geography of the Middle Ages. _Hou._
=Greene, Homer.= _Pa._, 1853- ----. A story-writer of Honesdale,
Pennsylvania. The Blind Brother; Burnham Breaker; Coal and the Coal
Mines; The Riverpark Rebellion. _Cr. Hou._
=Greene, Mrs. Isabella Catherine [Colton].= _Vt._, 1844- ----. A
novelist and writer for young people, long a resident of Nashua, New
Hampshire. A New England Conscience; Adventures of an Old Maid; A New
England Idyl; The Hobbledehoy. _Lo._
=Greene, Nathaniel.= _N. H._, 1797-1877. A Boston journalist,
postmaster of Boston 1829-40 and 1845-49. He published a translation of
Sforzosi’s History of Italy; Tales from the German; Tales and Sketches
from the German, Italian, and French.
=Greene, Samuel Stillman.= _Ms._, 1810-1883. An educator of Providence,
professor at Brown University, 1851-83, who published Analysis of the
English Language and several text-books on English Grammar.
=Greene, Mrs. Sarah Pratt [McLean].= _Ct._, 1858- ----. A writer whose
first novel, Cape Cod Folks, was widely popular, while the fact that
certain of the dramatis personæ were portraits of living people gave
rise to much litigation. Her other works include Towhead; Some Other
Folks; Peter Patrick; Vesty of the Basins; Flood Tide. _Har._
=Greene, William Batchelder.= _Ms._, 1819-1878. Son of N. Greene,
_supra_. In early life a member of the noted Brook Farm Community.
He was subsequently a Unitarian minister, and during the Civil War
served as colonel of a Massachusetts regiment. Remarks on the Science
of History; Theory of the Calculus; Socialistic, etc., Fragments;
Reflections and Modern Maxims. _Put._
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