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Richard Theodore Greener

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Richard Theodore Greener

Birth
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death
2 May 1922 (aged 78)
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA
Burial
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA
Plot
Section C, Lot 588, Grave 8
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He was the first African-American to be graduated by Harvard and dean of the Howard University Law School. He was the son of Mary Ann (La Brune) and Richard Wesley Greener and was married, on September 24, 1874 to Genevieve Ida Fleet. His daughter Belle da Costa Greene would become the personal librarian to the financer J. P. Morgan and after his death the first director of the prestigious Pierpont Morgan Libary.
He was the first African-American to be graduated by Harvard and dean of the Howard University Law School. He was the son of Mary Ann (La Brune) and Richard Wesley Greener and was married, on September 24, 1874 to Genevieve Ida Fleet. His daughter Belle da Costa Greene would become the personal librarian to the financer J. P. Morgan and after his death the first director of the prestigious Pierpont Morgan Libary.

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