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DANIEL CROSBY GREENE Daniel Crosby Greene, son
of Rev. David and Mary (Evarts) Greene, was born February 11, 1843, at Roxbury, Massachusetts. He commenced his
preparatory studies at the High School in Windsor, Vermont, and entered Middlebury College, Vermont, in the Spring of
1861, remaining there until the close of Freshman year, when he joined our class at Dartmouth, at the beginning of the
Fall term of Sophomore year, August 23, 1861. In June, 1862, he enlisted as a private in Company B, Seventh Squadron,
Rhode Island Cavalry, and served four months in Virginia. Returning in the Fall of 1862, he completed the course.
Immediately after graduating, he went to Palmyra, Wisconsin, where he taught school until June, 1865, at which time he
removed to Waukegan, Illinois, where he taught for one year. In the Fall of 1866, having decided to study for the
ministry, he entered the Chicago Theological Seminary, where he remained for one year. He then went to the Andover
Theological Seminary, where he continued his studies until he graduated in July, 1869. In November, 1869, he sailed
for Japan, as a missionary under the auspices of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. He was the
first missionary of the American Board to Japan. He arrived at Tokyo, in December, 1869, and remained there until
March, 1870, when he went to Kobe, where he resided and labored until May, 1874. The first church was organized at
Kobe on April 19, 1874, with eleven members. In 1882 there were nineteen churches with one thousand members.
From June, 1874, until May, 1880, he resided in Yokohama, as a member of the committee for the translation of the New
Testament into the Japanese language. After superintending the printing of this version, which was published in June,
1880, he returned to the United States, where he spent about eighteen months, traveling through different parts of the
country, and preaching in the interests of the American Board. He returned to Japan in November, 1881, and has been
stationed since that time in Kyoto, as an instructor in the Doshisha English School, his principal work being in the
Theological Department.
In addition to the Japanese version above alluded to, he also edited an edition of the Chinese New Testament, for the
use of Japanese readers.
He received the degree of Master of Arts from Dartmouth in course, and also the degree of Doctor of Divinity from
Rutger's College in 1879.
In politics, he is an independent republican.
He was married July 29, 1869, to Miss Mary Jane Forbes, of Westborough, Massachusetts. They have seven children:
Evarts Boutell, born July 8, 1870; Fannie Bradley, born August 29, 1871; Daniel Crosby, born January 29, 1873; Jerome
Davis, born October 12, 1874; Mary Avery, born February 20, 1877; Roger Sherman, born May 29, 1881, and Elisabeth
Grosvenor, born October 20, 1882.
Source: "Memorialia of the Class of '64 in Dartmouth College" complied by John C.
Webster, Shepard & Johnston, Printers, 1884, Chicago
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