Samuel Stillman Greene

Samuel Stillman Greene (May 3, 1810 – January 24, 1883) was an American educator who was a professor at Brown University, headmaster and trustee of the Worcester Academy, and superintendent of schools in Providence, Rhode Island and Springfield, Massachusetts.

Early life Greene was born in Belchertown, Massachusetts on May 3, 1810. He was the eight of eleven children born to Ebenezer Greene, a farmer who also taught at the local school during the winter.

Teaching After graduating from Brown, Greene became an assistant teacher at the Worcester County Manual Labor High School (later known as the Worcester Academy). He then served as its principal from 1838 to 1840, when he resigned due to ill health. He continued his association with the school as a trustee from 1852 until his death. During his time on the board of trustees, Greene successfully thwarted an effort to turn the school over to the Newton Theological Institution and in 1869 relocated the academy to its current location.

In 1839, Greene married Edna Amelia Bartlett of Worcester. They had one son, Frank Bartlett Greene. In 1854 he married Mary Adaline Bailey of Salem, Massachusetts. They had two sons (John Stimson Greene and Samuel Stuart Greene) and one daughter (Alice Greene Comstock). In 1855, Greene resigned as superintendent to become chairman of Brown's mathematics and civil engineering department.

Greene also served on the Providence school committee for eighteen years. He died suddenly on January 24, 1883.