 John was a confererate officer who led forces under Lee. He was born in Lawrence County, Alabama to Nathan Gregg and Sarah Pearsall Camp. He became a mathematics professor and studied law in Tuscumbia, Alabama. In 1852,he moved to Fairfield, Texas, where he was elected a District Judge. He became a member of the Provincial Congress of the Southern Confederacy and later resigned to form the 7th Texas Infantry. In 1858, John married Mary Francis Garth daughter of General Jessie Garth, a wealthy Alabama senator and Union supporter. Shorty after enlistment Gregg was captured and taken to Fort Warren, Massachusetts, for imprisonment where he was later traded for a Yankee prisoner. In September of 1862, he was commissioned brigadier general and sent to Mississippi. In the Battle of Raymond, on May 16th, 1863 his Army of 2,500 met a Union Army of 10,000. He was wounded at the Battle of Chickamauga on Sept 19, 1863, and sent to Marietta, Georgia to recover. One year later, October 7, 1864, General Gregg was killed during the Battle of Richmond.
Andrew was elected to the US House of Representatives from Pennsylvania on Oct 11, 1791, where he served for 16 years. In 1807 he was elected to one term in the US Senate. From June 26, 1809 to February 28, 1810 he was the president pro tempore of the Senate. In 1814 he became president of Bellfonte Pennsylvania Centre Bank and returned to public life in 1820 as Secretary of State of Pennsylvania. Andrew was born June 10, 1755 near Carlisle Pennsylvania and died May 20, 1855 in Bellfonte Pennsylvania where he resided his last twelve years.
Confederate soldier, politician, practicing lawyer, and Brigadier General. He was born in Columbia, South Carolina December 1814, the son of Col.James Gregg and Cornelia Maxcy. He was appointed colonel of the 1st Regiment of South Carolina Volunteers. He served in Virginia and was made Brigadier-general in 1861 and returned to South Carolina. He was wounded at Manassas and had his horse shot from under him at Sharpsburg. He was killed at Fredericksburg.
 John was an abolitionist who founded an anti-slavery school which later became Berea college. He was born in Bracken County, Kentucky Sept. 9, 1816 son of John Fee and Sarah Gregg. He attended Lane theological seminary and was ordained by the synod of Kentucky at Versailles, in 1844. He was president of the trustees of Berea College 1855-1892. He died in Berea Kentucky, January 11, 1901. Here is his autobiography published by the National Christian Association of Chicago Ill, 1891, in Documenting the Old South.
John was a Scotsman who fought in the battle of the Alamo. John McGregor, a native of Scotland, had a home in Nacodoches, Texas before deciding to travel to San Antonio to the fight in the Seige of Bexar. It was said that he and his bagpipes would duel with Davy Crockett and his fiddle during lulls in the battle at the Alamo.
 An American Philosopher, a modern pacifist and friend of Gandhi, the first American to develop a substantial theory of nonviolent resistance,coined the term "voluntary simplicity". Richard Gregg was a Harvard trained lawyer who practiced law for three years before working with trade unions where he assisted with arbitration for railroad workers following World War I. Richard was a convert to Quakerism from a Congregational minister’s family. He was inspired by an article on the work of Mohandas Gandhi and lived in Gandhi's Sbarmati ashram for several months in the mid-1920s on a journey through India, where he wrote "The Economicss of Khaddar". He returned to India as an observer during the 1930 Salt March. His publications include 'Gandhiji's Satyagraha or non-violent resistance 1930", "The Power Of Non Violence 1934", and his revision," The Power of Non-Violence 1960" which included a foreward by Martin Luther King. Some of his other notable publications include " The Compass of Civilization", "The Value of Voluntary Simplicity 1936", and "Training for Peace: A program for Peace Workers 1937". In 1935-36 he served as the acting director for Pendle Hill, moving form there to live in Putney,Vermont. Gregg worked closely with Gandhi in India. Gandhi nicknamed him Govind in letters which Gregg donated to the Swarthmore College Peace Collection. The influence of FOR (Fellowship of Reconciliation) was a channel for Gandhi's principals of nonviolence in theUSA, particularly for the civil rights movement under Martin Luther King. Form the 1920s some members of FOR had direct contact with Gandhi, including Richard Gregg and Krishmalal Shridharmani an Indian graduate student. Martin Luther King called "The Power of Nonviolence 1934" one of the five most influential books he had ever read.
 Harriet was born Oct. 15, 1818 in Shelby County, Kentucky and died December 9, 1909 Grandview, Missouri. On January 3, 1838 she married Soloman Young, a successful farmer who owned and operated wagon trains heading west. Soloman was also born in Shelby County Kentucky three years earlier on April 24, 1815. Their daughter Martha Ellen Young born November 25, 1852 was a music major who married John Anderson Truman on December 28, 1881. John was a farmer,a livestock dealer, and a road overseer. He was the son of Andrew Shipp Truman and Mary Jane Holman. Harry S. Truman was born May 8, 1884 in Lamar, Missouri. He became the 33rd President of the United States.
First Bishop of Texas. He was born on his fathers plantation in Darlington County, South Carolina Oct 8, 1819. His parents were Davis Gregg and Athalinda Brocky. He graduated from Columbia College in 1838 and practiced law at Cheraw S.C. where he joined the Protestant Episcopal Church. He married Charlotte Wilson Kollock on April 21, 1841 and theyhad ten children. He studied for the priesthood and was ordained Dec 19, 1847. He was elected bishop of the diocese of Texas in 1859. He published History of Old Cheraw in 1867. He died in Austin, Texas July 11, 1893 and was buried in Cheraw, South Carolina.
 American Inventor and Publisher. John was born in Shantonaugh, Ireland in 1867. He invented and published a new shorthand system in 1888. He introduced his system in the United States in 1893, and it became widely taught in schools. About 90% of present shorthand instruction in the U.S. is in the Gregg System and it has made inroads in China and Great Britain. It has been adapted to Hebrew, Tagalog, Thai, Chinese, and other languages. John, who started as an Irish stenographer, established the Gregg Publishing Co., Gregg Schools, and edited the Gregg Writer from 1899, the American Shorthand Teacher from 1920, renamed Business Education World in 1933. He authored Gregg Shorthand Manuel in 1888, Gregg Phrase Book in 1901, and Gregg Speed Studies in 1917. He died in 1948. See book page for "Gregg Shorthand".  Back to the Gregg Page
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