Gregory - H.S.
H.S. Gregory
Do not know the source for this, but it was received 8-21-00 by: LLPEGR@aol.com
The name of H.S. Gregory is well known among Kansas newspaper men, but he left that profession and engaged in business at Pratt, Kansas and became mayor. He was born at Crawfordsville, Indiana, May 20, 1868. His paternal ancestors were Scotch people, later had their home in the north of Ireland,and in American colonial days two brothers came to this country, one locating in New York and another in the South. H. S. Gregory was descended from the New York branch of the family. His grandfather, Samuel Gregory, spent his life in Ohio as a farmer. Samuel Gregory, Jr., father of H. S. Gregory was born in Ohio in 1813 and in 1815 his parents moved to Indiana, which was still a territory. He spent the greater part of his life in Montgomery County of that state, and was an early disciple of Alexander Campbell and as a circuit rider carred the Gospel to many isolated communities. He died in Montgomery County in 1870. He was active and influential in public affiar, and in Civil was times represented his count in the State Legislature. He was a republican and equally radical in his support of the prohibition cause when that was by means popular. He was also a member of the Masonic fraternity. Samuel Gregory married Abigail McGillard. She was born in Montgomery County, Indiana, in 1832 and died at Garden City Kansas in 1892. H. S. Gregory attended public school at Thorntown, Indiana, and was a student in the noted Wabash College of Crawfordsville. In 1887 at the age of nineteen, he came to Kansas and homesteaded a claim near Garden City.
Note: this does not always agree with the above::::
1850 Montgomery Co. Coal Creek Twp #1350
Gregory, Samuel 31 Farmer Real Est. b. Ohio;
Jane 25 Ohio Mary A. 1 Ind;
Smith, Edward 15 Farmer b. Ind
1860 Coal Creek Twp
Samuel Gregory (#66) age 41 Farmer Va
Abigail 24 Ind
Mary A 11 (all b Ind)
Loretta 8
John W 7
Francis W 5
Martha E 2
Rachel J 9/12
Don't see them in the 1870 Census