Born at Prairie du Chien, Wis., August 23, 1845. When two years old he moved with his parents across the river to the Iowa side, where his father located the present city of McGregor. Gregor attended the public and select schools here until 1859, when he went East and attended the Fort Edwards Institute at Fort Edwards, N.Y., until 1864. He then read law in the office of Judge Stephen E. Brown, at Glenn's Falls, Warren County, N.Y., one year, when he returned to McGregor and engaged in general commission business, and one year later he established his present wholesale and retail hardware business. This was one of the leading business houses of the city. Mr. McGregor is one of the "pioneer children" of McGregor, where he has been identified all his life. In 1880 he was elected a Republican Representative to the Iowa Legislature, Eighteenth General Assembly and re-elected in 1882, serving in the Nineteenth General Assembly. He was also elected Mayor of McGregor in 1871 and re-elected in 1874, and was a member of the city council. He always took an active interest in the schools, or anything that promises progression to the city. He married Emma Turk, of Troy, N.Y.
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