Andrew H. Green

Andrew H. Green (February 5, 1830 – 1918) was one of the founders of Theta Delta Chi fraternity at Union College in Schenectady, NY, along with Abel Beach, Samuel F. Wile, Theodore B. Brown, William Hyslop, and William G. Akin. Green outlived all of the other founding members of the fraternity, and was the most involved of the founders after his undergraduate career at Union.

Green was born in Utica, NY on February 5, 1830. After preparing at Utica Academy, he entered Union as a sophomore in 1846. In the winter of 1846 - 1847, Theodore B. Brown recruited Green to join the other founders in organizing a fraternity. Green quickly took a leading role in the organization, and played a significant role in writing the constitution of Theta Delta Chi. He is also credited with being the author of the fraternity ritual.

Academically, Green was a very successful student, and he was elected into Phi Beta Kappa after his graduation from Union.

After graduating from Union College in 1849, Green remained active in Theta Delta Chi, assisting in the founding of the fraternity's second Charge, the short-lived Beta Proteron Charge at the State and National Law School in Ballston, New York. Green also attended several fraternity conventions through the mid-1850s.

Professionally, Green practiced law after being admitted to the bar in Virginia in 1851. After a brief stint from 1854 until 1856 as the Advocate of the U.S. Pacific Squadron, during which he spent a significant amount of time in California, Green returned to New York to practice law until 1905.

After being recruited to attend the Semi-Centennial Convention in 1898, Green renewed his interest in his college fraternity, and spoke at many fraternity engagements during the first two decades of the 20th century. At the Gamma Deuteron Charge (University of Michigan) Initiation Banquet in 1910, Green gave the following stirring address:

Gentlemen, though you may have a fine house here, and it may be costly, thousands and tens of thousands of dollars may have been expended upon it, yet its wealth, its real riches, its greatest riches are in its men, its members.

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