CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - MCGREGOR Gregor
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Hartington Herald,   March 7, 1918

Death of Gregor McGregor

            On Saturday, March 2nd, at St. Vincent’s hospital in Sioux 
City occurred the death of Gregor McGregor, one of the best known 
pioneers of Cedar County. His death was due to cerebral hemorrhage. The 
late Mr. McGregor was a very vigorous man until about Dec. 10, 1910. 
when he suffered a stroke of apoplexy, and since that time he failed 
rapidly until the end.

            Gregor McGregor was born at Ridgetown, Ontario Canada, 
August 14, 1849 and grew to manhood there, coming to Omaha, Nebraska 
in 1869.  He learned the blacksmith tradewhile a young man in Canada.  
Traveling by train to Sioux City and overland to Ponca by freight wagon, 
the following March he walked to St. James which then was the farthest 
settlement west in this section or 49 years ago in the early seventies, 
he came to St. James and opened the first blacksmith shop in Cedar County, 
and this part of the state. Customers came to him as far away as Niobrara. 
When St. Helena started he moved there for a few years but came to 
Hartington when the town was established in 1883. He enlarged in the livery 
business, but later resumed his old trade which he continued until 1910 
when he suffered his stroke. 

 	He was married in Hartington to Miss Alice Cole in 1873, and to 
this union were born four children, one son, Roy of Sioux City, and three 
daughters, Mrs. Robert (Maud) Turner, Spokane, WA., Mrs. Mabel Goodman, 
Mondamin, IA., and Miss Agnes McGregor, Of Sioux City, Ia., all of whom 
were here to attend the funeral which occurred from the First 
Congregational Church of this city. Special music was furnished by a 
quartet, and a large number of old friends and neighbors came to pay their 
last respects to the memory of a pioneer.

            A number of Modern Woodmen, of which organization the deceased 
was a member were present at the funeral. Interment was in the Hartington 
Cemetery.

            Mr. McGregor made the cannon used in the first celebration of 
Independence in Cedar county in his blacksmith shop at St. James. The cannon 
is now owned by County Commissioner A.W. Jones of Wynot.