Deacon Samuel Greele was born on 2 July 1783 in Wilton, Hillsborough, New Hampshire.1 He was the son of Samuel Greele and Olive Read.2 Deacon Samuel Greele graduated in 1802 from Harvard. He was fitted for college at the Academy in New Ipswich, New Hampshire. After graduating he studied divinity with Rev. Jonathan French of Andover, Mass. He preached for several years, but was never ordained as a minister over any society, and he resigned the sacred profession much against his will on account of temporary ill health. He then became a devoted and useful teacher. He was for some time Preceptor of an Academy in Marblehead, he then removed to Boston, where he taught in a private school from 1818 to 1821. In 1825 he entered into partnership with John Baker, under the firm of Baker & Greele, in the business of manufacturing printing types. This firm was dissolved in 1827, and the next year Mr. Greele took into partnership Mr. Henry Willis, and they continued the business under the firm or Greele & Willis until 1832, when Mr. Greele retired from active business. He was a devoted member of various charitable and benevolent institutions. He was an officiating Deacon in the Federal Street Church for nearly fifty years, first under the ministry of Rev. Dr. Channing and subsequently under Rev. Dr. Gannett. His steady and sincere adherence to the Liberal faith through all the fluctuations of time and opinion was remarkable. He was a faithful worker in the American Unitarian Association. He was elected a Representative from Boston to the State Legislature in 1838, 1840, 1841, 1842 and 1843. He was a member of the Board of Aldermen in Boston in 1834, 1835 and 1836.3
He married firstly Lydia Maria Sewall, daughter of Chief Justice Samuel Sewall LL.D. and Abigail Devereaux, on 3 May 1812 in Marblehead the service was conducted by the Rev. Dr. Eliot.
(Vital Records incorrectly give 3 May 1881.)4,5,6 Deacon Samuel Greele married secondly Louisa May, daughter of Colonel Joseph May and Dorothy Sewall, on 19 October 1823 in Boston. They has a son and a daughter.2 Deacon Samuel Greele married thirdly Maria Antoinette Paine, daughter of Hon. Robert Treat Paine and Sally Cobb, on 18 October 1831 in Boston, Massachusetts.7 Deacon Samuel Greele married fourthly Sarah Follansbee Emerson on 8 October 1844 in Newburyport.2 Deacon Samuel Greele died on 16 August 1861 in Swampscott, Massachusetts, at the age of 78 where he had gone to pass the summer months.4,2

Citations
1. Family Search, New Hampshire Births and Christenings, 1714-1904.
2. Newspaper, Boston Daily Advertiser, (Boston, MA) Wednesday, July 16, 1862; Association of the Alumni of Harvard College, Necrology of the past Year.
3. Newspaper, Boston Daily Advertiser, 16 July 1862.
4. NEHGR, Vol. 74 p. 203.
5. Massachusetts Vital Records.
6. Newspaper, The Repertory & General Advertiser. 5 May 1812.
7. Family Search, Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001.

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