Name Albert Greene Role Poet | Died January 3, 1868 Education Brown University | |
Books Recollections of the Jersey Prison Ship from the Manuscript of Captain Thomas Dring | ||
"Old Grimes" poem by Albert Gorton Greene (Old Grimes is dead; that good old man)
Albert Gorton Greene (February 10, 1802, Providence, Rhode Island – January 3, 1868, Cleveland, Ohio) was an American judge and poet.
Contents
- Old Grimes poem by Albert Gorton Greene Old Grimes is dead that good old man
- Biography
- Family Life
- Works
- References
Biography
Graduating from Brown University in 1820, Greene was admitted to the bar of Rhode Island in 1823. In 1832 he was elected clerk of the City Council and clerk of the Municipal Court. He was Judge of the Municipal Court from 1858 to 1867, when he retired from ill-health to live with his daughter in Cleveland, Ohio. He is said to have drafted Rhode Island's original school bill.
In 1833 he published a quarterly, the Providence Literary Journal, but discontinued it after a year. He helped to found the Providence Athenaeum and the Rhode Island Historical Society, of which he was president from 1854 until his death. His library of 20,000 volumes included a collection of American poetry which eventually passed to Brown University, where it is known as the Harris Collection.
He wrote several popular poems, including the humorous poem "Old Grimes", "The Militia Muster", 'Adelheid", "The Baron's Last Banquet", and "Canonchet".
Family Life
In 1824 he married Mary Ann Clifford of Providence. Their daughter, Arazelia, married US Senator Charles Collins Van Zandt.