HENRY L. GREEN, LT, USN
Henry Green '70
Henry Loomis Green was admitted to the Naval Academy from New York City, New York on July 31, 1866 at age 17 years 4 months.
Prior to the publication of the Lucky Bag in 1894, most portraits of officers and midshipmen of the Naval Academy were captured in yearly photo albums. The album for 1869 is available in the collections of the Naval Academy's Digital Collections.
Special thank you to historian Kathy Franz for identifying this resource and then extracting several dozen photographs for this site.
Prior to the publication of the Lucky Bag in 1894, most portraits of officers and midshipmen of the Naval Academy were captured in yearly photo albums. The album for 1869 is available in the collections of the Naval Academy's Digital Collections.
Special thank you to historian Kathy Franz for identifying this resource and then extracting several dozen photographs for this site.
Loss
From Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute, 1884:
Lieutenant Henry Loomis Green. Born, New York City, March 16, 1849. Appointed a Midshipman, July 31, 1866. Graduated from the Naval Academy, June 7, 1870. Ordered to the Plymouth, July 2, 1870; detached and placed on waiting orders, June 24, 1873. Commissioned an Ensign, July 13, 187 1. Ordered to temporary duty on the Powhatan, November 16, 1873, and later to the Pinta. October 29, 1874, detached from Pinta. Commissioned a Master, May 23, 1874. January 2, 1875, ordered to special duty, Inter-Oceanic Survey. September 13, 1875, ordered to Gettysburg. June 14, 1876, detached and granted three months' leave. September 1, 1876, ordered to Hydrographic Office; detached March 28, 1877, and placed on waiting orders. April 25, 1877, ordered to Saratoga. February 25, 1880, detached and placed on waiting orders. September 1, 1880, ordered to Naval Academy. Commissioned a Lieutenant, November 23, 1880. Summer of 1881 made cruise in practice ship Dale. Died, Annapolis, Md., July 7, 1883. Sea service, eight years, nine months; shore duty, six years, six months; total service, sixteen years, eleven months.
Henry's cause of death was dysentery.
Other Information
From researcher Kathy Franz:
Henry's father was Dr. Horace C., and his mother was Harriet Sheldon (Douglas) Green. In the 1860 census, Henry's siblings were: Sarah 17, Harriet 15, Douglass 12, George 6, Gusia 3, Hellen 1, and Josephine, 2 months old. They had at least seven servants in their household.
Henry married Katharine Brandreth in 1872. She was the daughter of Dr. Benjamin Brandreth who became famous with his Vegetable Universal Pills. His factory is on the National Register of Historic Places in Ossining, New York.
Henry and Katharine had a daughter Katherine D. born in 1880 and two sons: Frank Brandreth, a stockbroker, died in 1943; and Henry Sheldon Green died in 1929. Henry was a Princeton graduate in 1904 and a lieutenant in the Marines in 1910. That year, he married Elizabeth, daughter of artist William A. Rogers.
Henry applied for a passport in April 1874, in Monroe County, Florida. He was 25 years old, 5' 5.5” tall, hazel eyes, dark hair, and a light complexion.
At the time of his death, he was one of the assistants to the commandant of cadets at the Naval Academy.
He is buried in New York.
He was survived by his wife and son. His son was a Captain in the Marine Corps as of 1910.
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