Samuel Stillman Greene (May 3, 1810 – January 24, 1883) was an American educator who was a professor at Brown University, headmaster and trustee of the Worcester Academy, and superintendent of schools in Providence, Rhode Island and Springfield, Massachusetts.
He was the eight of eleven children born to Ebenezer Greene, a farmer who also taught at the local school during the winter.
During his time on the board of trustees, Greene successfully thwarted an effort to turn the school over to the Newton Theological Institution and in 1869 relocated the academy to its current location.
[3] In 1852, Greene and Dana P. Colburn, an instructor from the Bridgewater Normal School, began a course of lectures for those who wished to become teachers.
Their efforts would result in the creation of the Rhode Island Normal School in 1854.
[4] In 1855, Greene resigned as superintendent to become chairman of Brown's mathematics and civil engineering department.