The Greenes of Rhode Island, with historical records of English ...

536 The Greene Family.
of the victims who, after removal to a hospital on the Isle of Shoals, and a
two weeks' detention in quarantine, were detached. In September of the
same year Mr. Greene was detailed as engineer in charge of the Port Ad-
miral's steamer Frolic, in New York Harbor. He reported for duty and, at
the same time, having tired of the service, he tendered his resignation and
proceeded at once to Troy, N. Y., to resume the general practice of his
profession of engineering.
In 1870 he was appointed engineer to the State Commission; 1874,
division engineer of the eastern division of the State canals; and, in
June, 1874, deputy State engineer, which position he filled until 1878,
when he resumed his practice in Troy. Was appointed director and professor
of geodesy, etc., in the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, which
position he occupied for thirteen years, resigning in 1891, when he was
at once made the consulting engineer of the Arnold Print Works at
North Adams, Mass., in which capacity he had been for some time con-
nected with the Berkshire County Commission; both these positions Mr.
Greene still retains. From 1873-1890 he was Colonel of Engineers, N. G.
S. N. Y., attached to the staffs of Major-General J. B. Carr and Brigadier-
General Amasa J. Parker. He has been for many years a director of the
Troy City National Bank; of the Citizens' Steamboat Company; of the
Glens Falls Brick and Terra-Cotta Company; and director and vice-presi-
dent of the McDonald Stone Company, Watervliet, N. Y.
Mr. Greene is a member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion
of the United States ; of the Society of Founders and Patriots ; of the Sons of
the American Revolution ; of the United Service Club of New York City ; of
the American Society of Civil Engineers ; of the American Society of Naval
Engineers; of the American Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engi-
neers; and a Fellow of the American Geographical Society. In March,
1894, on the organization of the Committee of Public Safety of Troy, con-
sisting of one hundred picked citizens, Mr. Greene was unanimously elected
chairman. He resides (1902) at Troy and Adams, N. Y.
2262. ALBERT SIVILIAN - GREENE (Joseph L.^ Thomas',
Joseph'*, John-', James-, John') was born at Adams, N. Y., August 3,
1838. He was a civil engineer, graduated in 1858, from Rensselaer Poly-
technic Institute, Troy, N. Y. The name "Sivilian" has no family significance.
When Albert was an infant, about being named, his brother, David
M., became greatly interested in the character of Rev. Sivilian, whose
biography he was reading, and he insisted that his baby brother should bear
the name of the man whose nobility of mind had so impressed him. Albert