Charles Ezra Greene

Charles Ezra Greene
Born	February 12, 1842(1842-02-12) Cambridge, Massachusetts
Died	1903 Ann Arbor, Michigan
Nationality	American
Education	Harvard College (B.A. 1862) M.I.T., (B.S. 1868)
Occupation	Professor of Civil Engineering, 1872-1903 Dean, Univ. of Michigan School of Engineering, 1895-1903
Employer	University of Michigan
Spouse	Florence Emerson (married 1872)
Children	Albert Emerson, Florence Wentworth
Parents	Rev. James Diman Greene, Sarah Adeline (Durell) Greene

Charles Ezra Greene (1842–1903) was an American civil engineer, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

He graduated at Harvard in 1862 and at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1863, served as quartermaster during the last two years of the Civil War, and was United States assistant engineer from 1870 to 1872, when, for part of a year, he was city engineer of Bangor, Maine.

In the same year he became connected with the engineering department of the University of Michigan. In 1895, he became the first dean of the University of Michigan College of Engineering, a position he held until his death.

He was an associate editor of the Engineering News from 1876 - 1877. his publications include:

• Graphical Method for the Analysis of Bridge Trusses (1876)
• Trusses and Arches: Graphics for Engineers, Architects, and Builders (three volumes, 1876–79; third edition, 1903)
• Notes on Rankine's Civil Engineering (1891)
• Structural Mechanics (1897; second edition, 1905)

See also

	Biography portal
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	American Civil War portal

References

This article incorporates text from an edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain.

Persondata
Name	Greene, Charles Ezra
Alternative names
Short description	Union Army officer
Date of birth	1842
Place of birth	Cambridge, Massachusetts
Date of death	1903
Place of death	Ann Arbor, Michigan