Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Green, Alexander Little Page

GREEN, Alexander Little Page, clergyman, b. in Sevier county, Tenn., 6 June, 1806; d. in Nashville, 15 July, 1874. He received an academic education, was ordained elder in the Tennessee conference of the Methodist Episcopal church in 1837, and, besides performing missionary abor, filled several pastorates. In 1844 he was a delegate to the general conference which met in New York city to adopt measures tor the organization of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, and was one of the commissioners in the adjustment of the church property question consequent on the division. He was the principal oi'ganizer of the publishing-house at Nashville, and chairman of the book committee. Mr. Green was a trustee of Vanderbilt and Nashville universities, and was an authority in Indian lore. He published " Church in the Wilderness " (Nashville, 1840), and was preparing a work on " The Fishes of North America."