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HENRY A. GREEN, ESQ. 



THE following notice of Mr. Green appeared in the " Satur- 

 day Evening Gazette" (Boston), January 10, 1891, and was 

 written by the editor, Colonel Henry Grosvenor Parker, who 

 had been his friend for many years : — 



Forty years ago no more striking figure could be seen in Bos- 

 ton streets than that of Mr. Henry Atkinson Green. Commanding 

 in stature, graceful in movement, elegant in dress, there was in every 

 manifestation of the man the unmistakable air of gentleman. Men 

 and women alike turned to look at and admire him. In those days 

 there was a Boston aristocracy that was a real one, and the rest of 

 mankind were separated by a dividing line so marked as to amount 

 to a distinction of caste, as it were, between the few who composed 

 the charmed circle and the many worthy people who were clearly 

 outside it. This barrier was broken by the war of the Rebellion, 

 when the heart of the aristocratic mother and that of the democratic 

 mother bled alike over the sacrifice of their own, and when humanity 

 and brains asserted themselves above and beyond the accident of po- 

 sition, and the rich men of that day and their descendants became 

 the poor men of a later time. Mr. Green'was in the charmed circle 

 and of it. He was a Lawrence, a favorite in society, and one of the 

 earlier members of the Somerset Club. But he was also a man 

 among men, educated himself to trade, mastered the dry goods com- 

 mission business in the house of Wilkinson, Stetson & Co., in Federal 

 street, and in that of Tucker, Newton & Mills, in which he became a 

 partner, and continued so in the firm's changes (Mackintosh, Green 

 & Company) until his death ; all the while " a hail fellow well met " 

 with the trade, popular with buyer and seller, a kind friend to the 

 " younger boys in the store," an excellent salesman, a careful dealer, 

 and a wise and conservative investor of his own earnings. His man- 

 ner was frank, and his voice was at once manly and musical. It was 

 a distinct, emphatic sound, and not an aspiration. It was magnetic 

 in its quality. Mr. Green made his own fortune. He was not 

 above work, and always honored intelligent workers. He was fond of 

 music and the theatre and the last novel, but never cared much for 

 society, so called. His impulses were kindly in every relation of life. 

 He detested a snob, especially a poor and incapable one. He had 

 no patience with a sham of any kind. Among his warmest friends 



