Indiana Historical Society - Manuscripts and Archives Department

JOHN GREGORY
LEDGER, 1882-1898

Collection #
BV 2657

Table of Contents

Collection Information
Biographical sketch
Scope and Content note
Cataloging Information

Processed by
Charles Latham
21 April 1993

COLLECTION INFORMATION

VOLUME OF COLLECTION:

1 bound volume

 COLLECTION DATES:

1882-1898

 PROVENANCE:

Jay Small Books, 1169 North Bolton Avenue, Indianapolis IN 46219, 21 April 1993

 REPRODUCTION RIGHTS:

Permission to reproduce or publish material in this collection must be obtained in writing from the Indiana Historical Society

 ACCESSION NUMBER:

1993.0369

 

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

John Gregory (ca 1844 - ca 1910) was the son of B. F. Gregory, a substantial citizen of Williamsport, Indiana-- county treasurer, owner of a quarry and a textile mill, recruiter of Union troops for the Civil War, vocal Republican and temperance man. In 1870, John Gregory bought the Warren [County] Republican, the party organ, and ran it for forty years. He, too, was a temperance man; he also served as reporter for the Knights of Honor.

 Sources: Beers Atlas of Warren County (1877), 6, 18, 38
History of Warren County (1966), 142
Counties of Warren, Benton, Jasper, and Newton (1883), 95, 97

SCOPE AND CONTENT

This collection consists of a ledger, 1882-1898, of John Gregory at the Warren Republican. Charges are both for advertisements in the paper and for commercial printing jobs such as letterheads, business cards, and legal notices.

CATALOGING INFORMATION

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