Bio of GREGORY, William Daniel (b.1855), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical

WILLIAM DANIEL GREGORY - Vol II, pg 110-113
William Daniel Gregory, president of Gregory, Jennison & Company, has long been
an influential factor in the industrial life of the northwest as one of the
leading millers and lumbermen of Minnesota. Ohio claims him as a native son, his
birth having occurred in Maumee, Lucas county, March 22, 1855. His father was a
physician who enjoyed an extensive practice in Maumee and there the son was
reared, receiving the educational opportunities accorded in the public schools
but enjoying no advantages beyond those thus offered. In the school of
experience, however, he has been an apt pupil and each day of his life has been
made to mark off a full-faithed attempt to know more and to grow more. He was
but seventeen years of age when he secured employment in a flour mill and
steadily working his way upward by reason of his diligence and fidelity to the
interests which he represented, he ultimately became master of the milling
business and thoroughly acquainted with the grain trade, to which he has devoted
his energies during the subsequent years of his life. For a considerable period
Mr. Gregory was associated with George W. Reynolds, one of the oldest millers in
northern Ohio, with whom he conducted a milling and grain business in Toledo. In
1884 he came to Minneapolis and here became identified with Samuel Linton in a
grain firm, which constituted the nucleus of the present corporation, operating
under the name of Gregory, Jennison & Company of Minneapolis and Gregory, Cook &
Company of Duluth. Mr. Gregory is the senior member of these two firms, which
own the Midway, the Marquette and the Exchange elevators with capacity of two
and one-half millions of bushels. He is likewise the president of the Powers
Elevator Company, which operates fifty-three elevators and twenty-two
lumberyards in the northwest. Thus his connections have constantly broadened in
scope and importance and he is today classed with those who are most active in
connection with the grain trade in this section of the country. He is likewise
the president of the Duluth Universal Milling Company and has been the secretary
of the Commander Mill Company with mills at Montgomery and at Morristown,
Minnesota.
On the 28th of October, 1889, Mr. Gregory was married to Miss Nellie Sowle, a
daughter of L. T. Sowle of Minneapolis, and they have one son, Lawrence S. Mr.
Gregory has membership in the Minneapolis Club, the Minikahda Club and the
Lafayette Club, together with other leading social organizations of the city. He
is a member of the Board of Trade at Duluth, the Board of Trade of Chicago, the
Civic & Commerce Association of Minneapolis, and the Chamber of Commerce. There
is no good work instituted for the benefit and upbuilding of the city that does
not receive his endorsement and support. He has labored earnestly and
effectively for the public welfare in many ways and his generous assistance is
at all times counted upon and received when there is before the public a plan
for the promotion of those interests which are a matter of civic virtue and of
civic pride. In many ways he has left the impress of his individuality and
ability upon the upbuilding of this section of the country, winning a place
among the captains of industry who marshal the forces of trade and lead hosts to
success in the attainment of their objective.