Roscoe Greene

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Roscoe Goddard Greene (born June 1, 1796 as Charles Roscoe Green in Northborough , Massachusetts , † December 14, 1840 in Portland , Maine ) was an American educator , publisher and politician who was Secretary of State of Maine from 1831 to 1834 .

Life

Charles Roscoe Green was born as the second son of Aaron Green (1770-1840) and Lydia Goddard (1771-1850) as well as his eight siblings in the US state of Massachusetts. He later lived in Portland, Maine. Because of the existence of two other people with the name Charles Green in Portland and the associated mix-ups, he officially changed his name to Roscoe Goddard Greene .

As a member of the Democratic Party , Greene was Secretary of State of Maine from 1831 to 1834. At the time of his death he was a "Surveyor" from Portland, Maine.

Greene was the author and owner of the Eastern Argus Newspaper. An educator by profession, he has also published several books on English grammar.

Private

In May 1825, Roscoe G. Greene married Eliza Ann Harding (1806-1884) in Portland . They had four children, a daughter and three sons. Greene died in December 1840 at the age of 44 in Portland (Maine) and was initially buried there in Eastern Cemetery , but after the death of his wife at her will in a joint grave at Hiram Village Cemetery in Hiram (Maine) reburied.

Publications

  • 1826 with James Adams Jr .: A compend of English grammar: designed for the use of the student, while attending a course of lectures on etymology and syntax
  • 1833 A grammatical text-book, in which the several moods are clearly illustrated by diagrams, etc.
  • 1835 Grammar for Children.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Deaths in the New York Evening Post, December 23, 1840, Ancestry.com. New York, Death Newspaper Extracts, 1801-1890 (Barber Collection) [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005. Original data: Barber, Gertrude A., comp. Deaths taken from the "Brooklyn Eagle." Volumes 1-27. np: np, 1963-66. Barber, Gertrude A., comp. Deaths taken from the New York Evening Post. Volumes 1-54. np: np, 1933-47., accessed May 8, 2016
  2. ↑ a b Biographical information from the ancestry.com database, accessed May 8, 2016 (fee applies)
  3. ^ Document of the name change in the family tree "vaf188", genealogical database ancestry.com, accessed on May 8, 2016 (subject to a fee)
  4. ↑ Biography Roscoe Greene in usgwarchives.net accessed on May 7, 2016
  5. ↑ a b c citoidWikitext * NO TITLE PROVIDED. In: worldcat.org. Retrieved May 7, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Greene, Roscoe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Greene, Roscoe Goddard (full name); Charles Roscoe Green (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American educator, publicist, and politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1796
PLACE OF BIRTH Northborough , Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 1840
Place of death Portland (Maine)