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INE SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29,1912.»■— i l 'f.ir'- I li~n m—niii . ■ . ~ -_ .. . — -- - . - -------------------—— - —---- - -------------GreggCandidate of the Progressive Party for Congress Fifteenth CongressionalDistrict.Iienry H. Gregg was born in Belle-font, Pennsylvania, the 19th day ofMarch, 1840. Came of Revolutionary ancestry on both sides of the House. The landing of the family in Pennsylvania was in 1732, coming from Vermont. They were of Scotch-Irish descent, His grandfather, Andrew Gregg, was in the first congress in 1790, and was elected for eight succeeding terms. He was the third United States senator from Pennsylvania.Henry H. Gregg was educated atDickinson College at Carlisle, Pu., and graduated in 1861. He enlisted under the first call of President Lincoln, but was rejected by reason of the fact that the governor notified the captain enlisting the companythat the Pennsylvania quota wasfilled under such call, and not to enlist the young men from the schools. He was later elected captain of H company, 125 Pennsylvania Infantry. |He was appointed major, and bre-1 vetted colonel of the 13th Pennsylvania Calvary, and mustered out of service on the 5th day of April,, 1865, within four days of the official ! end of the war. He i'is mustered out by order of the Secretary of War. at the request of Governor McCurtain, j was governor of Pennsylvania, and an | own cousin of Col. Gregg, to accept a position as Military Secretary and Chief of Transportation, succeeding j Col. M. S. Quay, who was afterwards U. S. senator.Col. Henry H. Gregg came to Mis-Quapaw Indian agency the following year to the daughter of the Indian agent, Major George Mitchell. He resided at Senec Newton county, Missouri, until 18K3, and from that time has Ifben a resident of Joplin Jasper county.He has been engaged in mining and farming, and has been n conservative ir. politics with democratic tendencies. He has been, from the beginning associated with and prominent in all efforts looking to the obtaining and retention of a duty upon the mineral products of this district, lead and zinci was president of the Joplin Commercial Club, an officer in the Zinc Ore Tariff Club, and Zinc Ore Producers’ Association. He is now governor of the Southwestern Lead and Zinc Chapter of the American Mining Congress; was very active in the zinc ore tariff campaign of 1907-08, and made two visits to Washington representing local zinc interests. He was a delegate to three meetings of the American Mining Congress, and was chiefly instrumental in bringing one of their conventions to Joplin. Hf is at present a member of tho Board of Directors of the American Mining Congress.Col. Gregg was among the citizens of Joplin who, irrespective of partyaffiliations, last spring heseechedChamp Clark and the democratic senators and representatives from Missouri to vote to strike from the Underwood bill the section which pro vided for the removal of the tariff
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Joplin Morning Tribune
Joplin, Missouri, US
Sun, Sep 29, 1912
Page 19
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