Biographical Sketch of Hon. Joe McGregor, Pulaski County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas,
 Pulaski, Phelps & Dent Counties, Missouri, Published 1889, Goodspeed
 Publishing Company.

Transcribed by: Penny Harrell (Incog3678@aol.com)

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Hon. Joe McGregor, attorney at law, of Waynesville, Ohio, was born
in Osage County, MO., June 14, 1857, and is the son of Dr. Allen L.
and Anna M. (Mosby) McGregor, and grandson of James McGregor, who
was born in Scotland, and came to the United States in 1812 or 1813,
locating in Wheeling, W. VA.  He died in Keokuk, Iowa, in 1881.  His
son Allan was born in Wheeling in 1827, and became a citizen of Osage
County, MO., in 1851, where he entered the teacher's profession,
taking up the study of medicine at the same time, afterward attending
Pope's Medical College at St. Louis, MO., from which institution he
graduated.  He practiced his profession in Osage County until 1862, 
when he moved to Maries County, and in 1871 became a citizen of 
Pulaski County.  Here he was actively engaged in practicing medicine
until the summer of 1888, when he was stricken with paralysis, and 
has since been unable to attend to his work.  In politics he is a
stanch Democrat, and in 1880 was elected on that ticket to represent
Pulaski County in the State Legislature, serving one term.  He is
one of the foremost citizens of the county in which he resides, and
is highly honored and esteemed by his fellow men.  His wife was born
in Kentucky in 1834, and died in 1858, and after her death he married
Miss Susan McKnight, who died in 1881.  Two sons were born to each 
marriage:  Allan and Joe to the first, and James and Pryor to the
last.  Joe McGregor attended the common schools in boyhood, and at
the early age of fifteen years engaged in "teaching the young idea",
receiving a first-class certificate from Judge V.B. Hill, who was
school examinere of Pulaski County at that time, and followed that
occupation for about seven years in Phelps, Maries and Pulaski Count-
ies.  In 1880 he became connected with the "Pulaski County Tribune",
published at Waynesville, his partner being D. Rainey.  He was con-
nected with the paper for three years, and then sold his interest, 
and the same year was admitted to the bar, having been an earnest
student of Blackstone for some time.  In 1884-85 he took the senior
law course in the State University at Columbia, MO., and in March,
1885, graduated with the degree of LL.B.  Since that time he has 
practiced his profession in Waynesville, being also engaged in ab-
stracting and the general real estate business, and has in his
possession the only complete set of abstract books in the county.
He is a stanch Democrat and an active worker for his party, and has 
frequently been a delegate to State and judicial conventions.  He 
is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and on September 25, 1886,
was married to Miss Fanny Price, who was born in Maries County, MO.,
in 1869, and by her is the father of one child, Ralph.

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