Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Gregory, Herbert Ernest October 15, 1869 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders, Honolulu Star Bulletin, Ltd. Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

HERBERT ERNEST GREGORY, Scientist. To the solution of a great mystery – the 
origin of the Polynesian race – Dr. Herbert E. Gregory has devoted 
considerable effort in his capacity of director of the Bernice P. Bishop 
Museum in Honolulu, as professor of geology at Yale University and in 
association with the United States Geological Survey. His service in the 
geological survey dates back to 1899 and he has held the Silliman chair in 
geology at Yale for 20 years.
  The problem of the origin of the Polynesian race first engaged Dr. Gregory’s 
attention in June, 1916, when he visited Honolulu. Two years later he came 
back to Hawaii and spent two months on a special assignment from the federal 
government. In May, 1919, he came again to assume his present position as 
director of the Bishop Museum.
  Born at Middleville, Mich., Oct. 15, 1869, he is the son of George and Jane 
(Bross) Gregory. He was educated at Yale, A.B., 1896; Ph.D., 1899. He served 
there as an assistant in the botany department, 1896-1898, and as instructor 
in physiography, 1898-1901. In the latter year he was made assistant professor 
and was appointed Silliman professor in geology in 1904.
  He also became associated with the United States Geological Survey in 1899 
and made numerous trips to foreign countries. He has written extensively on 
geological conditions in Connecticut, Arizona, Peru, Australia and New 
Zealand. From 1908 to 1912 Dr. Gregory was associate editor of the American 
Journal of Science. He was chairman of the committee on schools at New Haven, 
1910-1915, and state geologist for Connecticut, 1913-1921. Dr. Gregory is 
chairman of the committee of Pacific Investigations of the National Research 
Council.
  During America’s participation in the World war he was in charge of the 
military mapping of the Long Island shore and prepared a book on military 
geology and topography for the Council of National Defense. In 1918 he was 
appointed supervisor of science on the committee of education and special 
training in the War department.
  Dr. Gregory was vice-president of the Geological Society of America in 1919 
and president of the Association of American Geographers in 1920. His club 
memberships include the Cosmos, Washington; Graduates’, New Haven, and 
University, Honolulu. He married Edna Hope on June 30, 1908, and they have one 
child, Anna Cutts Gregory.


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