Capt. Jeremiah Evarts Greene, USA

Capt. Jeremiah Evarts Greene

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Husband of Mary Bassett. Graduated from Yale College in 1853. Capt of the 15th Mass Vols in the Civil War. Editor of the Worchester Spy.

He was the son of Rev. David Greene and Mary Evarts, grandson of Thomas and Anna (Knight) Greene; and on the maternal side of Jeremiah and Mehitable (Sherman) Evarts, making Jeremiah a great-grandson of American founding father, Roger Sherman.

He died on 8 Nov 1902 at Plainfield, Union County, New Jersey, while on a visit to his sister. He was 67 years, 11 months and 12 days old.

An obituary from an unidentified newspaper at the time of his death reads: "JEREMIAH EVARTS GREENE, son of David Greene (Yale 1821), for many years Secretary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, and Mary (Evarts) Greene, and grandson of Jeremiah Evarts (Yale 1802), was born in Boston, Mass., on November 27, 1834. Soon after his birth the family removed to Roxbury, and about 1848 to Westborough, Mass. In 1849 he entered New York University, but a year later joined the Sophomore class at Yale.

The year following graduation he taught in the Episcopal Academy at Cheshire, Conn., and the next year in Keosauqua, IA., and was then occupied for two years in the survey for the U.S. Government of public lands in Kansas. He returned to Massachusetts in 1859, was admitted to the Worcester County bar less than a year later, and settled in North Brookfield.

At the outbreak of the Civil War he was the first from the town to enlist, and aided in raising the 15th Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers, of which he was commissioned First Lieutenant, August 1, 1861. With other officers he was taken prisoner at the battle of Ball's Bluff, Va., October 21, 1861, and held at Richmond until February 2, 1862, when he was released on parole. He was commissioned Captain in the 15th Regiment, June 17, 1862, but resigned on October 23 following. Returning to his law practice, Mr. Greene remained in North Brookfield until May 1, 1868, when he removed to Worcester. He became associated with Hon. John D Baldwin in the editorship of the Worcester Spy, and continued as leading editorial writer of that paper for twenty-three years.

In 1891 he was appointed Postmaster at Worcester and during his service of over ten years conducted the office entirely without partisanship and with an efficiency which was signally recognized at Washington and throughout the Post Office department. He was twice President of the Board of Directors of the Worcester Free Public Library, and a member of the council of the American Antiquarian Society. His life was one of singular unselfishness.

Mr. Greene died on November 8, 1902, of softening of the brain, at Plainfield, N. J., while on a visit to his sister, the wife of Jeremiah Evarts Tracy, Esq., (LL.B. Yale 1857). He had nearly completed his 68th year.

He married, on April 14, 1864, at New Haven, Conn., Mary Anna, daughter of John G. and Henrietta C (Kirtland) Bassett, of New York City, and granddaughter of Rev. Amos Bassett, D.D. (Yale 1784). Mrs. Greene died after many years of suffering in 1897. They had no children.

One of Mr. Greene's brothers graduated at Williams College in 1852 and was killed in the attack on Arkansas Post in 1863; and two younger brothers graduated at Dartmouth College. "

Jeremiah Evarts Greene
BATTLE UNIT NAME: 15th Regiment, Massachusetts Infantry
SIDE: Union
COMPANY: F
SOLDIER'S RANK IN: Lieutenant
SOLDIER'S RANK OUT: Captain
ALTERNATE NAME: Jeremiah E./Green or J.E./Green
FILM NUMBER: M544 ROLL 16
PLAQUE NUMBER:
NOTES: General Note - Original filed under Jeremiah E./Green or J.E./Green

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