MATTHEW

See also:

• GREEN, A
• GREEN, ALEXANDER HENRY (1832—1896)
• GREEN, DUFF (1791—1875)
• GREEN, JOHN RICHARD (1837—1883)
• MATTHEW GREEN (1696-1737)
• GREEN, THOMAS HILL (1836-1882)
• GREEN, VALENTINE (1739–1813)
• GREEN, WILLIAM HENRY (.1825–1900)

GREEN (1696-1737)  , English poet, was born of Nonconformist parents . He had a post in the custom house, and the few anecdotes that have been preserved of him show him to have been as witty as his poems would lead one to expect . He died unmarried at his lodging in Nag's Head Court, Grace-church Street, in 1737 . His Grotto, a poem on Queen Caroline's grotto at Richmond, was printed in 1732; and his chief poem, The Spleen, in 1737 with a preface by his friend Richard Glover . These and some other short poems were printed in Dodsley's collection (1748), and subsequently in various editions of the British poets . They were edited in 1796 with a preface by Dr Aikin and in 1883 by R . E . A . Willmott with the poems of Gray and others . The Spleen is an epistle to Mr Cuthbert Jackson, The funds thus acquired were, to a large extent, expended in making public improvements . A clause inserted in all deeds forbade the sale of intoxicating liquors on the land concerned, under pain of the reversion of such property to the colony . The initiation fees ($5) were used for the expenses of locating the colony, and the membership certificate fees ($15o) were expended in the construction of irrigating ditches, as was the money received from the sale of town lots, except about $13,000 invested in a school building (now the Meeker Building) .

Greeley was organized as a town in 1871, and was chartered as a city of the second class in 1886 . The "Union Colony of Colorado" still exists as an incorporated body and holds reversionary rights in streets, alleys and public grounds, and in all places " where intoxicating liquors are manufactured, sold or given away, as a beverage." See Richard T . Ely, " A Study of a ' Decreed ' Town," Harper's Magazine, vol . 1o6 (1902—1903), p . 390 sqq .