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=Greene, William Houston.= _Pa._, 1854- ----. A Philadelphia chemist,
professor in the Central High School from 1880. Medical Chemistry;
Lessons in Chemistry. _Lip._
=Greenhow, Robert.= _Va._, 1800-1854. A surgeon and scholar whose
latest years were spent in California. History of Tripoli; History of
Oregon and California (1846).
=Greenleaf, Benjamin.= _Ms._, 1786-1864. An educator of Bradford,
Massachusetts, who published a popular series of text-books on
arithmetic and the higher mathematics.
=Greenleaf, Jonathan.= _Ms._, 1785-1865. A Presbyterian clergyman of
Brooklyn. Sketches of Ecclesiastical History of Maine; History of New
York Churches; Genealogy of the Greenleaf Family.
=Greenleaf, Moses.= _Ms._, 1788-1834. Brother of J. Greenleaf, _supra_.
Statistical View of Maine (1816); Survey of Maine (1829).
=Greenleaf, Simon.= _Ms._, 1783-1853. Brother of B. Greenleaf, _supra_.
A distinguished jurist of Massachusetts, and professor of law at
Harvard University from 1835 till his death. His greatest work, A
Treatise on the Laws of Evidence, has passed into fifteen editions.
His other writings include Origin and Principles of Freemasonry; Full
Collection of Cases Overruled, etc.; Reports of Cases in the Supreme
Court of Maine, 1820-31; Examination of the Testimony of the Four
Evangelists by the Rules of Evidence. _See Bibliography of Maine._
=Greenough= [green´o], =Henry.= _Ms._, 1807-1883. An architect of
Cambridge whose writings include the novels Ernest Carroll; Apelles and
his Contemporaries, and various essays on art.
=Greenough, James Bradstreet.= _Me._, 1833-1901. A professor of
Latin at Harvard University from 1873, who published with J. H.
Allen, _supra_, a series of classical text-books. Other works of his
are, Special Vocabulary to Virgil; The Queen of Hearts, a Dramatic
Fantasia. _Gi._
=Greenough, Mrs. Richard.= _See Greenough, Mrs. Sarah._
=Greenough, Mrs. Sarah Dana [Loring].= 1827-1885. The wife of the noted
sculptor Richard Greenough. In Extremis, a Story of a Broken Law;
Arabesques, four stories of the supernatural; Mary Magdalene, and Other
Poems. _Rob._
=Greenwald, Emanuel.= _Md._, 1811-1885. A Lutheran clergyman of
Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Order of Family Prayer; The Lutheran
Reformation; The Baptism of Children; Meditations for Passion Week;
Romanism and the Reformation; The True Church; Meditations for the
Closet, include the most of his controversial and other writings. _See
Life by Haupt, 1889._
=Greenwood, Francis William Pitt.= _Ms._, 1797-1843. A Unitarian
clergyman of Boston, pastor of King’s Chapel, 1824-43. History of
King’s Chapel; Sermons to Children; Sermons of Consolation; Sermons
on Various Subjects; Essays; Lives of the Apostles; Miscellaneous
Writings. _A. U. A._
=Greenwood, Grace.= _See Lippincott, Mrs. Sarah._
=Greenwood, James Mickleborough.= _Il._, 1836- ----. An educator and
school superintendent of Kansas City who has published Principles of
Education Practically Applied. _Ap._
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