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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

    ALBERT G. McGREGOR, President of Hartselle College, is a son of William and
Elizabeth (Carpenter) McGregor, and was born in Lawrence County, Ala., March 1,
1835. He was educated primarily in Lawrence County and subsequently at La
Grange, that once beautiful college and location on the spur of a mountain in
Colbert County, this State. This was a very prosperous and popular institution
of learning in antebellum times, but was burned during the war by the ruthless
invader, because, forsooth, many of Alabama's sons had received their military
training there. It has never been rebuilt. At this college Albert McGregor
graduated in the classical course in 1854, and was elected to the chair of
mathematics of his Alma Mater in the following year. This institution was
subsequently known as La Grange Military Academy, having received the patronage
of the State, which authorized each county to keep two cadets in attendance at
her expense. Professor McGregor taught at La Grange until he joined the
Confederate Army in 1861. He became Quartermaster in Col. Jeff. Forrest's
regiment, and served with Gen. P. D. Roddy and General Forrest most of the time
in North Alabama, North Mississippi and West Tennessee. After returning from the
war, Professor McGregor raised cotton for four years, then at the request of
friends, returned to La Grange, where he taught school in a church building for
about six years. He then took charge of the academy at Tuscumbia for one year,
but on account of poor health, was compelled to quit teaching and return to the
farm. In February, 1885, he took charge of the college of Hartselle, and is
still there. Professor McGregor was married December 23, 1858, to Miss Celia
King, daughter of Robert King, an extensive planter, of Lawrence County, and
they have seven children. He and his family are Methodists. He is a member of
the Masonic Order, and has been an educator all his life.

    William Carpenter, Professor McGregor's maternal grandfather, served in the
War of 1812.

    The McGregors are, as the name would indicate, of Scotch blood, but came
from North Carolina to Alabama and became farmers in Lawrence County. Professor
McGregor had one brother killed and one wounded at the battle of Franklin.

    The "Union Male and Female College," of Hartselle, Ala., was founded March
3, 1883, by Rev. Thomas Morrow, the object being to establish a school of high
grade at this place, at which the students might attend and complete a thorough
collegiate course. The building comprises five recitation rooms, and the schools
employ four teachers. The school teaches all that is included in a thorough
academic course, but as a college, is as yet, somewhat embryotic. It has hopes
for development and better days. It is under religious influences, but is in no
sense denominational. It is attended by about fifty pupils at the present time.
It has a musical department and teaches both vocal and instrumental music.


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Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART III.
HISTORICAL RESUME OF THE VARIOUS COUNTIES IN THE STATE.
CEREAL BELT.


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