GREENHALGE
GREEN LEAF
the refugees. He was associated with Daniel H.
Chamberlain in the defence of Cadet Whittaker
at the court martial held in New York city, the
case lasting over two jears and costing the U.S.
government over §50,000. He represented South
Carolina in the Republican conference held in
New York Aug. 4, 1880. which imited the Repub-
lican factions for Garfield. He was president of
the South Cai-olina club at Washington, 1876-80,
and as such delivered an address of welcome to
Jolin A. Logan on his re-election, and represented
South Carolina in the Union League of America,
1875-81. He was a personal friend of Gen. U. S.
Grant; one of the trustees of the Grant monu-
ment association and its secretary, 1885-93. He
was chief examiner of the civil service boards of
New York city and county, 188.5-90. He was a
delegate to the Unitarian conference at Saratoga,
N.Y., in 1894; a life member of the American
missionary association at Lowell, Mass. ; secretary
of the Irish Parliamentary funds, which raised
$150,000 for the Parnell fund, 1886-87, and an in-
corporator and vice-president of the Riverside
Republican club. He took an active part in the
campaign of 1896, and was appointed U.S. consul
to Bombay by President McKinley in June, 1898,
but was afterward transferred to organize the
consulate at Vladivostok, Siberia. He was an
active Republican campaign orator ; was elected
a inember of the American philological associa-
tion, and received the honorary degree of LL.D.
from the College of Liberia in 1883 and from
Howard university in 1898. His notable public
addresses include : Charles Sumner (June, 1874) ;
William Lloyd (raiTisoii (June, 1879") ; Socrates as a
Teacher (April, 1880) ; The Intellectual Position of
the Neyro (July, 1880) ; Free Speech in Ireland
(October, 1883) ; Benjamin Banneker (February,
1883); Ilenrij Highland Garnet (May, 1882); and
An Africrn, Hosciiis (June. 1883).
GREENHALGE, Frederic Thomas, governor of Massachusetts, was born in Clitheroe, Lan- cashire, England, July 19, 1843; son of William and Jane (Slater) Greenhalge. His father, an engraver, came from Edenfield, Lancashire, Eng- land, in 1855, to take charge of the Merrimac print works, Lowell, Mass. He was educated in the Lowell public and high schools and at Harvard college, where he matriculated in 1859. On the death of his father in 1863 he left Harvard in his junior year and engaged in teach- ing; as an employee of the American bolt com- pany, Lowell ; and in the study of law. In 1864 he went south to join the Federal army at New- bern, N.C., where he served in the commissary department and as a commander of colored troops. Here he was attacked with malaria fever and he returned to Lowell and resumed the study of law. He was admitted to the Mid-
dlesex bar in 1865. He was a member of the
Lowell common council, 1868-09; a member of
the school committee, 1871-73; justice of the
police court, 1874-84; mayor of the city, 1880-81 j
and was defeated in
the election for state
senator in 1881. He
was a delegate to the
Republican national
convention of 1884 ; a
representative in the
state legislature, 1885 ,
city solicitor, 1888 ,
and a representative
in the 51st congress,
1889-91, being de-
feated in 1890 for re-
election. He was
elected governor of
Massachusetts in 1893
as successor to William E. Russell, Democrat, wha
had held the office for three years, and he was re-
elected in 1894 and 1895. He was president of
the History club, of the Humane society and of
the City institution for savings. He received the
degree of A.B. from Harvard in 1870. See The
Life and Work of Frederic Tliomas Greenhahje, by
James Ernest Nesmith ( 1897) . He died in Lowell,
Mass., March 5, 1896.
GREENLEAF, Benjamin, educator, was born in Haverhill, Mass., Sept. 35, 1786; son of Caleb and Susanna (Emerson), grandson of Timothy and Susanna (Greenleaf), great-grandson of John and Abigail, great^ grandson of Samuel and Sarah (Kent), great^ grandson of Stephen and Elizabeth (Coffin), and gieat' gi-,andson of Edmund Greenleaf who settled in Newbury, Mass., about 1635. He was graduated from Dart- mouth in 1813, and was preceptor of Bradford academy from Dec. 13, 1814, to April 6, 1836. He represented Bradford in the state legislature in 1837-39, and in 1839 founded the Bradford teachers' seminary which he conducted until its discontinuance in 1848. He was a pioneer educator in the natural sciences by illustrated public lectures and in leading teachers to dis- pense with text-books in the recitation room. He was married on Nov. 30, 1831, to Lucretia, youngest daughter of Col. James Kimball of Bradford, Mass. As an author he was widely known. He published a tract of eight pages en- titled Bules of Syntax about 1835. He also worked off the mathematical calculations for a number of almanacs, notably for the Cherokee IVtission. He published text-books on arithmetic, mental and written, algebra, geometry, and trigonom- etry, and at the time of his death left in manu- script a System of Practical Surveying. His text-books began to issue from the press in 1835,
