Gregory - George P.
Source: Crawfordsville Weekly Journal Friday, 21 September 1900
A recent cablegram to the New York Tribune announces the death at Havana, Cuba, Sept. 13th, of George P. Gregory, superintendent of the San Jose correction school, a state institution. Death was caused by yellow fever after a brief illness.
Prof. Gregory was born near Wingate, this county, in 1864; a son of Rev. Samuel Gregory, a well known minister who represented this county in the state legislature in ’66-7. He has many relatives in various parts of the county. City Clerk James A. McClure is a cousin; Mrs. O. C. Combs, of Ladoga, is a sister. His mother was Abigail McGilliard, of Whitesville.
The young man was in the government Indian service for some years and had spent two years in South America. He was married to Miss Carrie White at Knightstown, Ind., some years ago, and had four children. He was superintendent of the state reform school at Whittier, Cal., when appointed to the Cuban position, and took his family with him to his new field of labor, and had been there precisely two months when stricken down by the yellow plague. Frank W. Gregory, for some years connected to The Crawfordsville Journal, now of the Denver, Col., was a half brother. - s-