Background
Lewis Warner Green was born in Danville, Kentucky, the twelfth and youngest child to Willis Green and Sarah Reed.
educator Presbyterian minister
Lewis Warner Green was born in Danville, Kentucky, the twelfth and youngest child to Willis Green and Sarah Reed.
Green went on to study the Hebrew language at Yale College and also matriculated at the Princeton Theological Seminary but did not graduate from either due to an urgent call back to Kentucky. He served as a minister in Kentucky and professor beginning in 1831 at Centre College. Around 1840, he emancipated his slaves.
Then in 1840 he went as a professor to the Western Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania.
He later served as president of Hampden–Sydney College from 1849 to 1856 and for about a year as president of Transylvania University. He served from 1857 to 1863 as president of Centre College.
lieutenant was during Green"s presidency at Hampden–Sydney that a disagreement arose between the faculty of the Richmond Medical College (now the Medical College of Virginia) and the Hampden–Sydney board of trustees in 1853. This disagreement resulted in the Medical College being withdrawn from the benefits of the Hampden–Sydney charter, effectively becoming their own institution.
Death
He died on May 26, 1863.
The medical faculty wanted the right to appoint any new member of their staff without the say of the board of Hampden–Sydney.