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Albert Gorton Greene

(1802-1868)
Rhode Island



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Brown University Library

Albert G. Greene was born in Providence, Rhode Island on February 10, 1802 and is a graduate of Brown University at Providence, Rhode Island. After his graduation in 1820, he studied law in the office of John Whipple, was admitted to the bar in 1823, and took up the practice of law. He practiced law for some ten years and then assumed a number of positions in Providence city government. Greene died at Cleveland, Ohion, January 3, 1868. Greene's fugitive verse has not, to our knowledge, been collected.

[Source: Rufus Wilmot Griswold, The Poets and Poetry of America 295 (New York: James Miller, Publisher, 1872)] [Rufus Wilmot Griswold] [See also: Evert A. & George L. Duyckinck, The Cyclopedia of American Literature (Philadelphia: William Rutter & Co., 1880)(Vol. 1)]

Albert Gorton Greene
Brown University Library

Albert Gorton Greene
Brown University Library

Albert G. Greene
The Poets and Poetry of America

Poem

The Baron's Last Banquet

Poetry

Albert G. Greene, Old Grimes (Providence: S.S. Rider & Brother, 1867) [online text]

Library

Catalogue of the private library of the late Hon. Albert G. Greene. To be sold by auction ... March 29, 1869, and succeeding days (New York, Bangs, Merwin & Co., auctioneers, 1869) [online text]

Research Resources

Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays
Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island

Henry Bowen Anthony