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Andrew Haswell Green was the son of William Elijah Green and his third wife, Julia, daughter of Oliver Plimpton, traced his descent from Thomas Green of Leicester, England, who emigrated to Massachusetts Bay about 1635 and settled in that portion of Malden which is now included in Melrose and Wakefield. He was born on October 6, 1820, at Worcester, where his father was practicing law.
Green was educated at the Academy there and prepared himself for West Point. Abandoning his purpose to enter the army, he became a clerk in a mercantile firm in New York. He subsequently determined to study law and in 1842, entered the office of Samuel J. Tilden.
After his admission to the New York bar in 1844, Green continued in association with Tilden, ultimately becoming his partner. For many years, he was actively connected with municipal affairs.
In 1834, he was appointed a member of the Board of Education, becoming president in 1856. During the six years, he served on the board he made an exhaustive study of the public school system then in vogue, acquiring a complete mastery of the subject.
When in April 1857, the legislature passed an act for the regulation and government of Central Park under eleven persons, Green was named one of the commissioners. The following September he was appointed a treasurer, and, the next year, president.
On September 15, 1859, the board created the office of the Comptroller of the park and placed Green in that position, the entire executive management being vested in him.
The Brooklyn bridge project had Green's hearty support and the Washington bridge across the Harlem River was an outcome of his plans. He continued comptroller of the park until the Tweed charter of 1870 removed the members of the board from office.
In September of the following year, at the suggestion of William F. Havemeyer and Samuel J. Tilden, he was appointed deputy comptroller of New York City by Comptroller Richard B. Connolly.
After the election of November 7, when the Tweed ring was ousted, Green became comptroller. The city finances were in the utmost confusion, but before he retired from office in December 1876, he had retrieved the situation and put the municipality on a safe financial basis.
In 1880, he again became a park commissioner but resigned on finding that he was not being accorded support in carrying further his policy of improvements.
He served on the state commission to revise the tax laws in 1881, and two years later, was appointed by Gov. Grover Cleveland a member of the Niagara Park Commission, continuing to hold that position for nearly twenty years, during the last fifteen of which he was president.
In his eighty-fourth year, he was murdered on the steps of his house by an insane negro, who had mistaken him for another person.
More than twenty years previously Green had conceived the idea of merging New York City and the municipal areas adjacent thereto, thus creating one central metropolitan authority in lieu of the five existing municipalities. For a long time, he was the lonely advocate of the project, but ultimately on his petition, the state legislature, May 8, 1890, authorized a commission to look into the matter. Gov. David B. Hill nominated him as a member, and he became president. The commission, endorsing his views, prepared a scheme of consolidation, which on being submitted to the communities concerned was approved, and the bill incorporating Queens, Kings, Richmond, and New York counties, including the Bronx, as the City of New York was passed in 1897, the consolidation taking effect January 1, 1898. He was a member of the New York constitutional convention of 1894. In 1895, he secured the incorporation of the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society. Several memorials have been erected for Green. In 1929, a memorial bench was dedicated to him in Central Park. Bath Island in the Niagara River was renamed Green Island in his honor. In 2010, a 1. 98-acre parcel on Manhattan's East Side was named Andrew Haswell Green Park in his honor.
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So efficient was Green's guidance that the legislature empowered the board to lay out the northern end of Manhattan Island, and to devise plans for the improvement of the Harlem River and Spuyten Duyvil Creek.
Green’s reports suggested in broad outline practically all the immense improvements which were carried to completion during the ensuing half century, including Riverside Drive and Fort Washington, Morningside, and Pelham Bay parks.
He envisaged Central Park as the center around which should be grouped all the major institutions of science, art, and education in the city, in partial fulfillment of which the locations of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Museum of Natural History were determined.
Green was a trustee under the will of his partner Samuel J. Tilden, who bequeathed his fortune for the purpose of providing a public library in the City of New York, and it is credibly averred that to Green’s influence the bequest may be attributed.
Subsequently, he was a powerful factor in procuring the union of the Astor and Lenox libraries with the New York Public Library.
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