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MATTHEW GREEN (1696-1737)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 534 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MATTHEW GREEN (1696-1737)  ,
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English poet, was born of
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Nonconformist parents . He had a
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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
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editions of the
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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
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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
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land concerned, under pain of the reversion of such
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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
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money received from the sale of
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town lots, except about $13,000 invested in a school
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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
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Colorado" still exists as an incorporated
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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
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Magazine, vol . 1o6 (1902—1903), p . 390 sqq .

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