Bio of MACGREGOR, Robert E. (b.1880), 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
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Vol III, pg 495-496
ROBERT E. MACGREGOR
Robert E. Macgregor, vice president of the Northwestern National Bank of
Minneapolis, entered upon active connection with this institution in 1897 as
messenger boy. Step by step he has advanced, and industry, close application,
thorough­ness and reliability have constituted the rounds of the ladder on which
he has climbed. His record should serve to inspire and encourage others, showing
what may be accomplished through individual effort, intelligently directed. Mr.
Macgregor was born in Stratford, Ontario, January 23, 1880, and is a son of
Robert A. and Charlotte S. (Jones) Macgregor, the former a native of St. John,
New Brunswick, while the latter was born at Fort Hope, Ontario. In the year 1884
the father came to Minneapolis and was with the First National Bank for some
time. He afterward filled the position of national bank examiner for Minnesota,
Wisconsin and upper Michigan and subsequently he engaged in the commercial paper
brokerage business. He thus became well known in financial circles through­out
the upper Mississippi valley and at all times commanded the respect, con­fidence
and goodwill of those who knew him. Both he and his wife have passed away.
Robert E. Macgregor was educated in Trinity College School at Fort Hope,
Ontario, where he was graduated with the class of 1897 and after coming to
Minneapolis with his parents he attended the public schools. He made his initial
step in the business world in 1897, when a youth of seventeen years, by becoming
messenger boy in the Northwestern National Bank and from the beginning his
faithfulness and loyalty were evidenced. He worked his way upward through
various clerical and intermediate positions until called to official service,
being made vice president of the bank on the 8th of January, 1918. He is the
fifth executive officer of the institution, active in shaping its policy and at
all times holds to the highest standards of banking service.
On the 9th of June, 1903, Mr. Macgregor was united in marriage to Miss Florence
Warner, a daughter of E. D. Warner of Alma, West Virginia, and they have become
the parents of a son, Robert Warner, who is now a pupil in the Blake school, of
which school Mr. Macgregor is the treasurer. His political allegiance is given
to
the republican party and he never slights nor neglects the duties of
citizenship, recognizing at all times the obligations that devolve upon every
individual in relation to the country. Socially he is connected with the
Minneapolis, Minneapolis Athletic, Minikahda, and Automobile Clubs. He is
likewise a director of the central branch of the Young Men's Christian
Association and is interested in all those forces, which make for the uplift of
the individual and the betterment of the com­munity at large.