Eleanor Burges Green papers (MS.1U.G3)

Biographical note

Eleanor Burges Green was born March 3, 1870 in Providence, the daughter of Judge Arnold and Cornelia (Burges) Green. Her brother Theodore Francis Green was governor of Rhode Island (Eleanor served as his first lady) and a United States Senator. Eleanor graduated from Wellesley College in 1892. She worked as a volunteer nurse at Rhode Island Hospital and Newport Hospital and was a leading force in founding the Providence District Nursing Association. Eleanor was a member of the Rhode Island Society for the Collegiate Education of Women and once served as its secretary. She was a benefactor of Pembroke College. The Pembroke Class of 1918 made Eleanor an honorary member of their class in recognition of her monetary and emotional support. When Dean Lida Shaw King died in 1932, Eleanor organized a memorial service and then apparently paid for the publication and distribution of a book of tributes delivered at the service (Exercises Commemorative of Lida Shaw King) and another by Mary E. Woolley (1894) (Lida Shaw King, An Appreciation). Eleanor Burges Green died in Providence on April 13, 1954.