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* [[An Exposure of the Arts and Miseries of Gambling]] (1843)
 
* Gambling Unmasked: Or The Personal Experience of the Reformed Gambler, J. H. Green (1844)
 
* Gambling Unmasked: Or The Personal Experience of the Reformed Gambler, J. H. Green (1844)
* [[An Exposure of the Arts and Miseries of Gambling]] (1845)
 
 
* The Secret Band of Brothers: Or, The American Outlaws. Compiled from Original Papers. by J.H. Greene, the Reformed Gambler (1848)
 
* The Secret Band of Brothers: Or, The American Outlaws. Compiled from Original Papers. by J.H. Greene, the Reformed Gambler (1848)
 
* Gambling in Its Infancy and Progress, Or, A Dissuasive to the Young Against Games of Chance (1849)
 
* Gambling in Its Infancy and Progress, Or, A Dissuasive to the Young Against Games of Chance (1849)

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Jonathan H. Green
Born1813
Ohio, United States
1887
NationalityAmerican
Known forReformed gambler and later agent for the New York Association for the Suppression of Gambling
CategoriesBooks by Jonathan H. Green

Jonathan Harrington Green (1813–1887) was an American gambler, inventor, writer and later reformer in New York City during the early-to mid 19th century. In his youth, he was known as one of the most skilled card players in the United States. Following his retirement from gambling in 1842, he became an active crusader against illegal gambling and was responsible for enacting anti-gambling laws in several states. As an agent for the New York Association for the Suppression of Gambling, he conducted an exhaustive report detailing illegal gambling operations active in the city in 1850-51. He later toured the country as a lecturer and eventually published his memoirs entitled Twelve Days in the Tombs (1851), The Gambler's Life (1857) and The Reformed Gambler (1858).

Biography

Jonathan Green, born in Ohio in 1813, became an accomplished professional gambler as a young man. Popularly known from Texas to Boston as "Captain Green", he was a regular riverboat gambler on the Mississippi River. Among his most noted accomplishments was winning $23,000 in one night at the old Chestnut Street Arcade during the 1830s.

After living in Texas for several years, he suddenly abandoned gambling in 1842. Making restitution to those who had lost money to him, he traveled the country as a lecturer exposing common gambling tricks and spoke out against illegal gambling for the next nine years. His popularity as "the Reformed Gambler" gained a significant following and helped pass anti-gambling laws in several states.

Green became a general executive agent of the New York Association for the Suppression of Gambling and, between 1850–51, he conducted an exhaustive investigation on illegal gambling operations in New York City.

He moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1876 and lived a private retired life. He eventually became destitute in his old age and, following his wife's death in 1884, a public appeal was made when he was unable to pay for his wife's funeral.[1] Donations from "kindly minded friends" were sufficient enough to allow Green to bury his wife. Green himself died three years later.

Bibliography

  • An Exposure of the Arts and Miseries of Gambling (1843)
  • Gambling Unmasked: Or The Personal Experience of the Reformed Gambler, J. H. Green (1844)
  • The Secret Band of Brothers: Or, The American Outlaws. Compiled from Original Papers. by J.H. Greene, the Reformed Gambler (1848)
  • Gambling in Its Infancy and Progress, Or, A Dissuasive to the Young Against Games of Chance (1849)
  • An Exposition of Games and Tricks with Cards (1850)
  • Constitution and Bye-laws of the New York Association for the Suppression of Gambling (1850)
  • A Report on Gambling in New York (1851)
  • Twelve Days in the Tombs; Or, A Sketch of the Last Eight Years of the Reformed Gamblers' Life (1851)
  • The Gambler's Life: Or, The Life, Adventures, and Personal Experience of Jonathan H. Green, (the "Reformed Gambler") (1857)
  • The Reformed Gambler: Or, the History of the Later Years of the Life of Jonathan H. Green the "Reformed Gambler" (1858)
  • Gamblers' Tricks with Cards, Exposed and Explained (1868)

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