Managing editor of the Pittsburg (Pa.) Times; was born in Strasburg, Lancaster County, April 18, 1862. At the age of nine years was employed as a slate picker in the anthracite coal region; later began a four years' apprenticeship on a Tamaqua, Pa., newspaper. His first regular employment in newspaper work was in 1881, when he became a reporter in the coal regions of East Pennsylvania. When nineteen years of age was made managing editor of the Reading (Pa.) Herald. After serving in Reading six years he became the telegraph editor of the Pittsburg Gazette, and later the city editor. In 1889 he resigned the latter post and became the special correspondent for twenty-one of the leading newspapers of the United States. In December, 1891, he became city editor of the Pittsburg Times, and in May, 1892, was promoted to the managing editorship. Address, Pittsburg Times, Pittsburg, Pa. (p. 247)
Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from Berks County; was born Sept. 15, 1857, in Reading, Berks County. Pa.; educated in the public schools; is a machinist by occupation; served one term in Common Council; elected to House of Representatives in November, 1902. Address, Reading, Pa. (p. 247-248)
President Reading Board of Public Works; born Nov. 30, 1856, in Reading, Pa.; educated in the public schools; learned the printing trade, subsequently took up stenography, and taught night classes for several years in the Inter-State Commercial College of Reading; was one of the founders of the Reading Evening Telegram, and has retained his connection with that paper ever since; elected Secretary Reading Board of Trade in January, 1899; appointed in 1900 Special Enumerator of the United States Census to obtain statistics of manufactures of the city of Reading; elected by City Council a member of the Board of Public Works as a Democrat, and is now President of that body. Address, Reading, Pa. (p. 254)
Ex-Mayor; born Jan. 19, 1848, in Albany Township, Berks County, Pa.; removed with his parents to the city of Reading in 1854; was educated in the public schools and in the Philadelphia Classical Academy; became interested with his father in the wholesale grocery business, and succeeded to that business, which he conducted until 1874, when he became interested in the Reading Steam Marble Works; is Manager of the Reading Shale Brick Works, and interested in other manufacturing enterprises; was elected to the Common Council as a Democrat in the strongly Republican Fifth Ward, and became President of that body. At the February election in 1885 he was chosen Mayor and served the term of three years, since which time he has not been active in politics. Address, Reading, Pa. (p. 256)
President of the Kutztown National Bank of Kutztown. Address, Kutztown, Berks County, Pa. (p. 268)
Born at Union Forge, Lebanon County, Pa., Sept. 26, 1855; was educated in the public schools of his native place and at Palatinate College, Myerstown, Pa.; read medicine with Dr. J.C. Cooper, of Lebanon County; graduated from the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania in the class of 1878; located in Reading, Pa., in which city he continues to practice his profession. Address, Reading, Pa. (p. 268)
Lawyer; born in Cumru Township, in Berks County, Pa., Dec. 10, 1836; was educated in the public schools and the Philomathean Academy, Birdsboro, Pa.; taught school for five years, and removed to Reading in 1862 to commence the study of law; was admitted to the bar on Aug. 13, 1864; elected City Auditor on the Democratic ticket in 1866 for a term of three years; and in 1877 was elected District Attorney. Is still actively engaged in his profession. Address, Reading, Pa. (p. 268-269)
Lawyer; born in Berks County, Pa. After exhausting the curriculum of the district schools, he entered the Keystone State Normal School at Kutztown, Pa., where he remained a few years, when he left and went under the private tutorship of capable instructors. He next entered the University of Pennsylvania Law Department, and was admitted to the bar of Philadelphia in June, 1877, and that of Berks County, at Reading, Pa., in November, 1878, and subsequently to the Superior and Supreme Courts of Pennsylvania, and the United States Circuit and District Courts. He has pursued an active and lucrative practice, has represented his party (the Democratic) as District Attorney and County Solicitor. Mr. Grant is a Director of the Berks County Trust Company, a Reading financial institution, and is associated with other business enterprises. Address, Reading, Pa. (pp. 274-275)
Brevet Major General United States Volunteers; born April 10, 1833, at Huntingdon, Pa., where his father, Matthew D. Gregg, practiced law, and where his maternal grandfather, David McMurtrie, had settled before the Revolution. General Gregg is a grandson also of Andrew Gregg, who was in the United States House of Representatives from 1791 to 1807; in the United States Senate from 1807 to 1813; and Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania from 1820 to 1823. Andrew Gregg's father, also named Andrew, came from Londonderry, Ireland, to Pennsylvania in 1712 , and died at Carlisle in 1789. A more remote ancestor was David Gregg, of Argyleshire, Scotland, who was a captain in Cromwell's army. Another military forefather of General Gregg was his great-grandfather, Gen. James Potter, of the Pennsylvania Line, who became Vice President of Pennsylvania in 1781. Educated at Milnwood, Huntingdon County, and at the University at Lewisburg, young Gregg entered the United States Military Academy at West Point, July 1, 1851, graduating in 1855. He was commissioned Brevet Second Lieutenant of Dragoons July 1, 1855, and then began his arduous life of the trooper upon the plains of the West and the battle fields of the Civil War. Before the war, as an officer of the First Dragoons, Gregg had seen active service in New Mexico, California, Oregon, and Washington Territory. He was on the Spokane expedition in 1858, and was engaged in the desperate combat at Tohotsnimme, and in the combat at Four Lakes in September, 1858, and other Indian fights. As Captain of the Sixth Cavalry he served in the defenses of Washington from the fall of 1861 until promoted in January, 1862, to be Colonel of the Eighth Pennsylvania Cavalry, after which he participated in the battles of Seven Pines and Fair Oaks in May, 1862, and Glendale and Malvern Hill in June and July. In November of that year he was made a Brigadier General and placed in command of the Second Cavalry Division of the Army of the Potomac. In 1863 he took part in Stoneman's Raid, and was at Brandy Station, Aldie, Upperville, Gettysburg (where, on the right flank on July 3, he repulsed Stuart's attempt with four brigades of Confederate Cavalry to reach the rear of Meade's Army, simultaneously with Pickett's assault in front), Shepherdstown, Culpeper Court House and Rapidan Station, Sulphur Springs, Auburn and Bristoe Station, and at New Hope Church and Parker's Store in the Mine Run campaign; and in 1864 at Todd's Tavern, in Sheridan's Raid, at Ground-Squirrel Church, Meadow Bridge, Hawes' Shop, Gaines' House, Trevilian Station, Tunstall Station, St. Mary's Church, Warwick Swamp, Darbytown, Lee's Mills, Charles City Road, Deep Bottom, Ream's Station, Peebles' Farm, Vaughn Road, Boydton Plank Road, and Bellefield, besides many minor actions and skirmishes. From March 26, to April 6, 1864, he commanded the Cavalry Corps of the Army of the Potomac, and the Second Cavalry Division again from April 6, 1864, to Feb. 3, 1865, in the Richmond campaign, being in command of all the cavalry of the Army of the Potomac from Aug. 1, 1864, to Feb. 3, 1865. In many of the long list of cavalry combats in which he was engaged Gen. Gregg was in chief command. On Aug. 1, 1864, he had been made Brevet Major General United States Volunteers "for highly meritorious and distinguished conduct throughout the campaign, particularly in the reconnaissance on the Charles City Road." On Feb. 3, 1865, he resigned. The war was then practically over. Gen. Gregg was appointed by the President United States Consul at Prague in 1874, but he resigned the position in the same year, returned to the United States, and subsequently resided at Reading, Pa. Upon the death of General Hancock, in 1886, Gen. Gregg succeeded him as Commander of the Pennsylvania Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, which office he held for many years. In 1891, though without political aspirations, he was elected Auditor General of Pennsylvania by an immense majority. Gen. Gregg is almost the last survivor of the long list of distinguished Pennsylvania soldiers who held high command in the Union Army. Address, 1516 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa. (pp. 276-277)
Lawyer; born in Reading, Pa., May 3, 1857; educated in the public schools of his native city and at Yale College, from which he was graduated in 1877; read law in the office of his father, Albert G. Green, Esq., and was admitted to the bar in 1879; served in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for two terms, from 1883 to 1886; member of Senate of Pennsylvania two terms, from 1889 to 1897; member of the United States House of Representatives in Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh Congresses. Captain Company G, Ninth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers in the war with Spain; editor of the Reading Evening Telegram; Democrat in politics. Address, Reading, Pa. (p. 277)
Registrar of Bucknell University since 1889; Captain and Quartermaster Twelfth Infantry, National Guard of Pennsylvania; Commissioner to Trans-Mississippi Exposition from Pennsylvania in 1898; editor of Shield of Phi Kappa Psi from 1896 to 1898; President of Lewisburg Town Council from 1899 to 1900. Member of Pennsylvania German Society; University Club, Philadelphia. Born in Reading. Aug. 23, 1866; was graduated from Bucknell University. Address, Lewisburg, Pa. (p. 279-280)
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