founded the New Yorker, a weekly, in 1834. His first success was the Log-Cabin, a campaign paper which aided largely to bring about the election of Gen. W. H. Harrison to the presidency in 1840. On April 10, 1841, he issued the first number of the New York Tribune, an advocate of temperance, co-operation, a protective tariff and the abolition of slavery and capital punishment. It at first was Whig, then antislavery Whig and subsequently the most powerful organ of the Republican party. This paper he edited until his death. In 1848 he was elected to congress. When the southern states seceded, he at first upheld their course as being in accordance with the Declaration of Independence; but when the war began, he became its earnest supporter. At the close of the war he was a strenuous advocate of amnesty for all, and went to Richmond to offer bail for Jefferson Davis, for which action he was strongly condemned. In 1872 he was a candidate for president against General Grant, and met with defeat. This broke his health and spirit, and he died on Nov. 29, 1872. Greeley was a good and popular speaker and one of America's greatest editors. He also was a well-known writer. The best known of his books are The American Conflict and What I Know of Farming. See his Life by Parton.
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Gree′ly, Adolphus Washington, explorer, was born at Newburyport, Mass., March 27, 1844. He served through the Civil War, and shortly afterward entered the regular army as lieutenant. In 1868 Greely was assigned to the signal service, remaining until 1881, when he was selected to lead the expedition to the head of Smith Sound. After terrible sufferings in the Arctic regions for three years, he and the survivors of his party were rescued in 1883. He was appointed chief of the signal service, and gazetted brigadier-general in 1887. See his Three Years of Arctic Service and W. S. Schley's The Rescue of Greely.
Green Bay, Wis., the county-seat of Brown County, situated on Fox River at the entrance to Green Bay, is 112 miles north of Milwaukee. It is the oldest town in the state, having been first visited in 1634 by Jean Nicollet and thereafter settled by the French. Fort Howard, established in 1816, was annexed in 1895. Green Bay is an important railroad center, and is connected by interurban line with Oshkosh and Fond du Lac. An excellent harbor provides access for the largest vessels upon the Great Lakes, while a line of pleasure boats runs to Mackinac and the “Soo.” Population 25,236.
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Green, John Richard, English historian, was born at Oxford, in December, 1837, and was educated there. His first work was a series of papers on Oxford in the Last Century in the Oxford Chronicle. He then entered the ministry, became a curate and then vicar, all the time contributing to the London Saturday Review. When he became librarian at Lambeth Palace in 1868, he was stricken with consumption, yet he did not stop writing, although his condition prevented any active labor. In 1874 his Short History of the English People became popular at once, and reached a sale of 150,000 copies. Creighton, himself a great historian, declared that Green had done for all English history what Macaulay had done only for a period: he had unified it. Later he brought out a larger edition of the work, the well-known History of the English People. He worked steadily on, struggling with hopeless disease, bringing out his Making of England the year before he died, and leaving his Conquest of England to be edited by his widow. He died at Mentone, March 7, 1883.
Green, Seth, born at Rochester, N. Y., March 19, 1817, received a common-school education, but early gave all his time to hunting and fishing. When in Canada, in 1838, he noticed the odd movements of some salmon and judged that they were about to make ready a nest for their spawn. So he climbed a tree and carefully watched them for 48 hours. He saw that as soon as the spawn was cast, the male salmon and other fish ate all they could find, and that only a few eggs were left, which the female carefully hid under a covering of gravel. He had never read on the subject, but from what he saw he felt sure that fish could be artificially hatched. He invented the method of protecting the spawn of the salmon, and in 1867 hatched 15,000,000 shad at Holyoke, Mass., besides extending his work of artificial hatching to the Hudson, Potomac and Susquehanna. Green transported the first shad ever taken to California. Altogether, he artificially hatched over 20 varieties of fish, invented many appliances therefor, and wrote Trout-Culture and Fish-Hatching and Fish Catch-
