Jackson County MO Archives Biographies.....Gregory, Alfred August 17, 1858 - 
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Source: A MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF KANSAS CITY AND JACKSON COUNTY, MO.
Author: Lewis Publishing Co.

ALFRED GREGORY, of the firm of Beardsley, Gregory & Flannelly, attorneys at law,
Kansas City, is a native of the Peninsular state, born in the classic city of Ann
Arbor, August 17, 1858. He is a son of John M. Gregory, who was born in Sand Lake,
New York. John M. Gregory went to Michigan in the early settlement of that state,
and was for a number of years the state superintendent pf public instruction. Later
he moved to Illinois and became president of the University of Illinois, which
important position he efficiently filled for a number of years. During President
Arthur’s administration he was a civil service commissioner. At the present time he
resides in Washington, District of Columbia, and is president of the civic
federation of that city. To him and his estimable wife seven children were born,
five of whom are now living.

Alfred Gregory, the subject of this brief review, was educated in the University of
Illinois at Champaign, and was graduated in 1878. He then secured an appointment as
private secretary to the commissioners sent by the state of Illinois to the world's
fair at Paris, and spent five months in France, assisting in the preparation of the
commissioners’ report upon the industries of that country.

He returned to Illinois and went into a wholesale house as salesman, where he
remained over a year. The life of a merchant was distasteful to him, and he began
the study of the law; this, however, was interrupted by a trip to New Mexico and
Arizona, which, as chance would have it, lengthened out into a two-years stay. His
collegiate course had been full of mathematics, and one or two vacations had been
spent on the lake survey and with railroad surveyors, so that he was invited to go
out to New Mexico first as assistant to the bridge engineer of the Atlantic &
Pacific railroad, an old college friend, and soon afterward “inherited” from this
friend his position as engineer. For two happy and vigorous years, under canvas by
night and in the saddle by day, the young man enjoyed the exciting life of the
frontier.

His law studies were resumed in 1881, when he took a course in Columbia law School
in New York city. Immedately after this he went to Atlanta, Georgia, where he was
admitted to the bar. He became associated there with Benj. H. Hill, Jr., and
remained in Atlanta till January, 1887, when he removed again to his native west,
and made his home in Kansas City. Upon his arrival here he entered into a
partnership with Henry M. Beardsley, with whom his friendship dated back to boyhood
and college days. In his profession he has already won a commendable degree of
success, and is one of the busy men and safe counselors of the Kansas City bar. He
finds time to do his share of public work when called upon, and is a director of the
Art Association and of the Street Boys’ Club, and a member of the First
Congregational church.

He was married to Josephine Karnes in 1892, and they have one child, a boy named
Joseph Van Clief.

A MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF KANSAS CITY AND JACKSON COUNTY, MO.
CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY 1896
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