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Mar 24, 1795 Died on 04 May 1874 (aged 79)
American reformer
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About Beriah Green
- Beriah Green, Jr.
- (March 24, 1795 – May 4, 1874) was an American reformer, abolitionist, temperance advocate, college professor, minister, and head of the Oneida Institute.
- He was "consumed totally by his abolitionist views".
- He has been described as "cantankerous".
- Former student Alexander Crummell described him as a "bluff, kind-hearted man," a "master-thinker".Greene was born in Preston, Connecticut, son of Beriah Green (1774–1865) and Elizabeth Smith (1771–1840).
- His father was a cabinet and chair maker.The family moved to Pawlet, Vermont in 1810, and he may have attended the Pawlet Academy.
- In 1815 he enrolled in the Kimball Union Academy, in New Hampshire.
- He graduated from Middlebury College in 1819, where he was valedictorian, and then studied to become a missionary (minister) at Andover Theological Seminary (1819–20).
- However, his religious beliefs did not agree with any denominational creed.
