The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-12-27
DEATH OF JAMES GREENE,
Well Known Octogenarian Claimed by
the Grim Reaper.

One Of the most familiar figures RAISING
up and down Meridian street for many
years has been James Greene, and his
strong and sturdy FORM his massive head
and beard and his measured tread have
been well known to the frequenters of this
thoroughfare. Yesterday morning, at 4
o'clock death claimed him and he passed
peacefully away. From being man of ro-
bust health he became almost an invalid
about two years ago from an attack of the
grip, and he was so weakened by it that
ne rarely left his horce .lone, though till
that time he had retained his active bust
ness life. When it is considered that he
had passed his eighty-tnird birthday, the
strength Of his years was remarkable. Mr..
Greene has been member of the First
Presbyterian Church ever since coming TO
this city in 1853. and the last of "a trio
Of aged members Of the congregation to die
this year, the others being Mr. Thomas IL
Sharpe and Mr.. Myron Stowell.
Mr.. Greene's parents were Quakers. James
was the youngest of thirteen children, ard
was born at Scituate. r. !. He was edu-
Gated in the UNCONVENTIONAL schools, his
father being minister among the Quahers,
and attended till he was seventeen years Of
age, when he went to Baltimore and took
a position in a mercantile house. After re-
naming IIhd there twenty months months n. he went to
of Rev. DIR. w. b. Sprague, he joined the
Presbyterian Church in 1880. From the time
of joining the church he became interested
in the ministry and decided to enter il. He
prepared himself for college at the Albany
Academy, and entered Amherst, from which
he was graduated in 1887. Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher' was in college there at the same
time and Lucien Barbour Charles n. Todd
and Walter March were classmates. tJr.
Greene afterward took a theological course
at Princeton, n. j. For instructors there
he had three eminent men-Drs. Archibald
Alexander, Samuel Miller and Charles
Hodge. His first work a home mis-
sionary near Nashville, Tenn. He was after
ward pastor at Gallatin for two years;
Shelbyville. KY. for one year, and from
there came to Madison, Ind, and took the
position Of professor of languages 1T Madi-
son University, which had just been estab-
lished by DR.. McMaster The university
ceased to exist, and Mr.. Greene opened
private school. and later had a similar in
stitutiOn at Evansville In 1888 accepting
* Evansville Airline road, he came TO this
city, and has resided here ever since. Dur
inc the war he was the assistant quarter
master-general Of the State. He secTe-
of business mems organization and
upon leaving that he entered the Berkshire
till his death his son, Mr.. Daviess NJ.
Greene, being his partner. Mr.. Greene was
a man Of much learning and one Of his lit
erary productions was a history of the In
dianapOlis Presbytery, and ut the semi
annual celebration Of the First PreSb yterian
For many years Mr. Greene kept diary,
and the important events Of history and
his own life furnished an interesting record.
In church. business and society he vas an
honored and respected member His wife
and one son, Daviess NJ. Greene, survive