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ROBERT STOCKTON GREEN
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ROBERT STOCKTON GREEN, of Jersey City, was born in Elizabeth,
N. J., on the 16th of October, 1865. He comes from a family of professional
men who have long been prominent in the State. Robert Stockton Green,
his father, was born in Princeton, March 25, 1831, and died in Elizabeth,
May 7, 1895. He was graduated from Princeton College in 1850, read law
with his father, James S. Green, and was admitted to the bar as an attorney
in November, 1853, and as a counselor in November, 1856. He began
active practice in Mercer County, and in 1856 removed to Elizabeth,
where he resided until his death. He was appointed Prosecutor of the
Pleas in Union County by Governor Newell in 1857, was elected Surrogate
in 1862, and was a member of the Common Council of Elizabeth from 1868
to 1873. In 1879 Governor Randolph appointed him to represent New
Jersey at the Commercial Convention in Louisville. He was appointed
the first Law Judge of Union County in 1868, was elected to Congress in
1885, and in 1886 was elected Governor of New Jersey. At the close of
his term as Governor he was appointed Vice-Chancellor and served in that
capacity until his death, being also at that time a Judge of the Court of
Errors and Appeals. He was a member of the Constitutional Convention
of 1874, and as a Democrat went as a delegate to various political conventions,
including the National conventions at Baltimore and St. Louis.
In January, 1884, he was admitted to the New York bar and became a
member of the law firm of Brown, Hall & Vanderpoel, which subsequently
became Vanderpoel, Green & Cuming. Judge Green was married, October
1, 1857, to Mary E., daughter of Richard Thomas Mulligan and Catherine
Coleman, his wife, of Fort Edward, N. Y. They had four children:
Catherine, Isabelle W., Caroline Seward, and Robert S.
James Sproat Green, father of Governor Green and grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was the son of Dr. Ashbel Green, and was born in Philadelphia, Pa., July 22, 1792. He was graduated from Dickinson College in 1811, was licensed as an attorney in 1817 and as a counselor in 1821, and in 1834 was called to the rank of sergeant-at-law. For many years he held an eminent position at the bar of New Jersey. He represented the old County of Somerset in the State Legislature for several terms from 1829, was Reporter of the Supreme Court from 1831 to 1836, served as United States Attorney by appointment of President Jackson until the election of Harrison in 1840, and was nominated by President Tyler as Secretary of the Treasury, but with others failed of confirmation in the opposition Senate. He was Professor of the Law Department of Princeton College from 1847 to 1855, a Trustee of that institution from 1828 until his death, and for many years served as Treasurer of the Theological Seminary at Princeton. He was one of the original Directors of the Delaware and Raritan Canal Company and was Treasurer of the Joint Railroad and Canal Companies. He died in November, 1862. Robert S. Green, the subject of this sketch, was educated at the Columbia Grammar School in New York City, graduating therefrom in 1882. He was graduated from Princeton College with the degree of B.A. in 1886 and received the degree of ;11.A. in course in 1889. From 1886 to 1890 he read law with his father, being also his father's private secretary while the latter was Governor of New Jersey from 1887 to 1890. He studied law with J. R. & N. English, of Elizabeth, and was admitted to the bar as an attorney in June, 1891. Immediately afterward he became a student at law in the office of Seward, Guthrie & Morawetz, of New York City. Mr. Green was admitted to the bar of New York in November, 1893, and remained with the firm of Seward, Guthrie & Morawetz until December 1, 1896, when he settled in Jersey City and formed a co-partnership with Albert C. Wall under the firm name of Wall & Green. In April, 1896, he was appointed by Governor Griggs a member of the State Board of Assessors for a term of four years.
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