GREELY. 242 GREEN. tioii to Three Years of Arctic Service (New York, 18S(J), 8fhley, The Rescue of Greely (New York, 1S85). GREEN (AS. grCnc, OHG. griioni, Gcr. griin; connected with AS. ijrOwan, OlIG. gnioaii, to grow ) . The color which is found on the spectrum between the blue and the yellow, and is known as the color of grass and other vegetable substances, as well as that of the minerals chrysocolla and malachite. It may be made artificially by mixing varying proportions of blue and yellow pigments. Auiong the more important green pigments which are of mineral origin are the following: Arsen- ical grrrn or ifchccle's green, a precipitate ob- tained from a solution of copper sulphate when treated with a mi.xture of arsenious oxide and potassium carbonate dissolved in hot water; Brunsicick green, a mi.xture of lead chromate and Prussian blue; chrome green, either the green chromium scsquioxide, or a mixture of chrome yellow and Prussian blue; copper green, fre- quently the same as Mountain grrcn, or any arti- ficially prepared green copper salt, as copper carbonate; Emer,ald green, Imperial green, Xlitis green, or Schweinfurth green, made by boiling concentrated solutions of arsenious oxide in cop- per acetate ; GeUert's green, a mixture of cobalt blue and zinc oxide ; Guigyiet's green, a mixture of chrome yellow and Prussian blue; Mountain green, any native earthy green mineral, such as chrysocolla, glauconite, or malachite; Prussian green or Eooker's green, a mixture of gamboge and Prussian blue. The green vegetable dye- stuflfs have been superseded by artificial coal-tar deriatives. See C'oal-T.r Colors, and Dyeing. GREEN, A>-DREW Haswei.i.(1 820- 1903). An American lawj'er, financier, and philanthropist, born in ^'oreester, Mass., and educated at the Worcester Academy. He studied law and prac- ticed in New York City, acting as executor of the Tilden, Ogden, and otlier large estates. In 185(5 he was president of the New Y'oi'k City Board of Education; was president of the Central Park Board from 1857 to 1870, and comptroller from 1871 to 1876. He managed the city's finances in the face of enormous deficits made by the peculations of the Tweed ring, and reestablished its credit. In 1868 he proposed the plan for a 'Greater New Y'ork,' afterwards initiated in 1897, and he also originated the plan of forming the New Y'ork Public Library out of the Astor, Tilden, and Lenox foundations. He foimded the New Y'^ork Zoological Society, assisted in the estab- lishment of the ^Tetropolitan INIuseum of Art and the Museum of Natural History, and gave great aid to many charitable institutions in New Y'ork City. GREEN, Anna Katharine. See Eoiilfs, Anna K.th.rike. GREEN, ASHDEL (1762-1848). An American Presb^-terian clerg^'man and educator, the son of .Jacob Green. He was born at Hanover. N. J. ; served in the Revolution; graduated at Princeton in 1784, and afterwards became professor of mathematics and of natural philosophy there. He was then for some time a Presbyterian pastor in Philadelphia, and in 1702 was Chaplain of Congress. From 1812 to 1822 he was president of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton X^niversity) , at the same time being president of the Board of Trustees of Princeton Theological Seminary. Beginning in 1822, he edited the Philadelphia Christian Advocate for twelve years. Auiong his works are : Presbyterian Missions (1820), and a Discourse Deliccrcd in the College of New Jersey, with a History of the College (1822). Consult Jones, Life of Ashbel Oreen (New Y'ork, 1849). GREEN, B.HTHOLOMEW (1G66-1732). An American printer and publisher, born at Cam- bridge, Mass. He succeeded to his father's print- ing business in 1690, and established himself first in Cambridge and then in Boston. On April 24, 1704, the Boston Xcics Letter, the first, and for many years the only, newspaper in the British colonies, appeared from his press, published for John Campbell, postmaster. Afterwards it be- came Green's property, and became widely known for the independence and originality of its polit- ical and religious utterances. Green was dis- tinguished for his piety and benevolence. GREEN, Beriaii (1794-1874). An American reformer, a native of New Y'ork State. He was educated at Middlebury College, Vermont, and studied for the ministry, but his religious beliefs did not agree with any denominational creed. In 1821 he was made professor of sacred literature in the Western Reserve College, though his vio- lent opposition to slavery caused him to leave that institution after a few months. Afterwaj-ds he was for many years president of the Oneida Institute in Ohio. He exerted a great influence in anti-slavery circles, served as president of the National Anti-Slavery Convention which assem- bled in Philadelphia in 1834, and was one of Garrison's warmest friends. His writings in- clude a History of the Quakers (1823), and Ser- mons and Discourses, with a few Essays and Ad- dresses (1833). GREEN, Duff (1791-1875). .
American
politician and journalist, born in Woodford County, Ky. He was educated in the country schools, and was himself engaged in teaching on the outbreak of the War of 1812, in which he served in the Kentucky militia. After the war he removed to Missouri, where he again taught school, and studied law at the same time. He took an active part in the movement that led to the admission of Missouri as a State, was a member of the convention that drew up the State Constitution, and after its admission was, in 1823. elected to the State Senate. In the same year he became editor and proprietor of the Saint Louis Enquirer, and two years later removed to Washington, D. C. where he purchased the United States Telegraph. After the accession of President .Jackson in 1829. the Telegraph sup- planted Gale's National Intelligencer as the Administration organ, and enjoyed Government patronage that is said to have amounted to $50,- 000 a year. Green himself became one of the confidential advisers of the President, and was a member of his famous 'Kitchen Cabinet.' After the open break between Calhoun and Jackson, the Trlrgraph was bitter in its attacks on the latter and Van Buren, as a result of which the Govern- ment printing was taken away from it. and given to the Globe, which had been established as the Jackson organ, with Francis P. Bl.air as its editor. Green continued in control of the Tele- graph until 1835, making it the most bitter and violent exponent of the nullificationists. From 1835 to 1838 he edited a paper, in the same in- terest, known as the Refortnation, after which he
