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Sometimes listed as Andrew Green.

Biography

Andrew Haswell Green was a lawyer, reformer, public official, master planner, and a visionary. He was born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1820 to a prosperous, professional family. As a young man, he received a commercial education while working as an apprentice in a leading dry goods establishment. At the age of twenty-four, he began to study law at the firm of Samuel J. Tilden. Green soon became interested in civic affairs.