Contra Costa County CA Archives Biographies.....Gregory, Munson 1828 - 
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Author: W. A. Slocum & Co., Publishers (1882)

MUNSON GREGORY.—Whose portrait will be found in the accompanying work, was born
in Delaware county, Ohio, June 25, 1828, where he was educated, and resided
until 1850. In that year he essayed the arduous undertaking of crossing the
plains by way of Salt Lake City, to the Land of Gold. Arriving in the City of
the Saints in July, he there remained until the following November, when he took
up the line of march, and having proceeded by the southern route, arrived in Los
Angeles in the month of January, 1851. After a short time passed in the City of
the Angels, he journeyed to the gold fields near Placerville, where he was
joined by his brother, Platt Gregory, whence they found their way into Sierra
county, and there dwelt until 1857. At this period, Mr. Gregory visited his
birth-place in Ohio, and in the Spring of the next year was married. It should
be mentioned that our subject visited Contra Costa county during the year 1855,
and purchased in 1857, a valuable farm, beautifully situated near the base of
Mount Diablo, comprising four hundred and forty-one acres. Hither, after his
marriage he came in 1858, with his bride, via Panama, and here have they since
resided, the original property having been so augmented that it now consists of
nine hundred and fifty acres of the finest land in the fertile Ygnacio valley.
Here Mr. Gregory has surrounded himself with every comfort necessary to a rural
life, while it is a satisfaction to know that he enjoys the confidence and
esteem of all the residents of the county of which he is a worthy citizen. We
may not omit to mention that Mr. Gregory has collected a valuable assortment of
geological specimens, all the fruits of Contra Costa county, which are carefully
named and classified while the fossil specimens in his collection—from the
Brobdignag oyster of seven inches by twelve inches, to the perfect impression of
the oak leaf—are most complete and valuable. Married in Delaware county, Ohio,
February 1, 1858, Miss Laura Knox, a native of that State, and has surviving:
Fannie E., Herbert M., and Warren C.

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HISTORY OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY,
CALIFORNIA,
INCLUDING ITS GEOGRAPHY, GEOLOGY, TOPOGRAPHY, CLIMATOGRAPHY AND DESCRIPTION;
TOGETHER WITH A RECORD OF THE MEXICAN GRANTS; THE BEAR FLAG WAR; THE MOUNT
DIABLO COAL FIELDS; THE EARLY HISTORY AND SETTLEMENT, COMPILED FROM THE MOST
AUTHENTIC SOURCES; THE NAMES OF ORIGINAL SPANISH AND MEXICAN PIONEERS; FULL
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY OF THE COUNTY; SEPARATE HISTORY OF EACH TOWNSHIP, SHOWING
THE ADVANCE IN POPULATION AND AGRICULTURE;
ALSO,
Incidents of Pioneer Life; and Biographical Sketches
OF EARLY AND PROMINENT SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN;
AMD OF ITS TOWNS, VILLAGES, CHURCHES, SECRET SOCIETIES, ETC.
ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO: W. A. SLOCUM & CO., PUBLISHERS
1882.

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