Gregg - Fred Marshall
FRED MARSHALL GREGG
Source: Crawfordsville Daily Journal Wednesday, 12 January 1910
The community was greatly shocked this afternoon to learn of the death of Fred M. Gregg, oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. O.M. Gregg and one of the most prominent young business men in the city. For only a few knew of his illness. Death occurred at Culver Hospital aobut half past two o'clock only a couple of hours after the operation from which he never rallied. Mr. Gregg was taken ill rather suddenly Monday morning about half past 9 while at work in the office of the Indiana Match Company of which he is secretary. He suffered intense pain in the abdomen and went home. Physicians were called and on Tuesday a nurse was employed, but he steadily got worse. This morning Dr. Thomas B. Noble was called over from Indianapolis and an operation was determined on. THis occurred at the hospital just before dinner but he did not rally and at half past two the report went out that he was suffering from a very peculiar and rather rare ailment. A sack had formed on the ouside of the intestines in which a stone had developed. This caused an abcess which in time had leaked into the intestinal cavity, producing the serious condition that made the symptoms so alarming. No arrangements have been made for the funeral as yet. Fred Marshall Gregg was born in Crawfordsville, Jan 23, 1873 and would have 37 years old in a short time. He was educated in the public schools of which his father was a trustee for many years and then spent 4 years in Wabash College graduating in 1893. He immediately went into business with his father who was at the time manager for the Indiana Wire Fence Company and became secretary of the company before it dissolved. Since the organization of the Indiana Match Company he has been its efficient secretary and treasurer. He was also secretary of the Crawfordsville Wirebound Box Company treasurer of the Central States Life Insurance Company and was considered one of the most reliable young business men in the city. He has been a director of the YMCA and has just retired from the presidency of that insitution. He was also a Mason and since his boyoood has been an active member of Center Presbyterian Church. On June 14, 1904 he was married to Miss Minnie Smalley and to them was born about a year ago a little daughter, Julia Caroline. The family and especially the parents will have the sympathy of the community to an unusual degree in their bereavement as only a couple of years ago they lost another son, Mills Gregg. - kbz