Hiram B. McGregor Biography


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	Co., Chicago, 1899. Pages 1048-1049

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HIRAM B. McGREGOR. Among the better class of agriculturists, whose 
pleasant home farm evidences the thrift of the vicinity of Columbia 
township, Brown county, may well be mentioned the subject of this 
review. He has made a success of his calling, and his labors have been 
given for the benefit of his county and township as well as for 
personal gain. He has acquired a comfortable fortune, and a large 
estate, and enjoys the comforts of life and a good reputation. 

Mr. McGregor is a native of Macomb county, Michigan, and was born 
September 2, 1858. He was the youngest, and the only survivor of a 
family of five children, born to Hiram C. and Abbie J. (Lockwood) 
McGregor, both now deceased. His father was born in the state of New 
York, in 1827, and his life was passed in farming. In March, 1880, he 
went to Dakota to make a home for the family, and in April of that 
year, having returned for their effects, he and our subject went to 
Dakota, and the father turned his pre-emption claim to his son, and the 
latter homesteaded it, and they both became pioneer settlers of Brown 
county. His father soon afterward returned east, but our subject 
remained until November of that year. The following spring the family 
moved to the new home. A house was shipped ready framed, 18 x 26 feet, 
and the father and son farmed together until the death of the former in 
December, 1891, when the entire estate passed into the hands of our 
subject and his stepmother. He is now the possessor of an eight 
hundred-acre farm, and cultivates about half of the land. He has 
thirteen cows, and one hundred head of sheep, and engages in 
diversified farming. His farm is well improved with substantial and 
commodious buildings, a drive well one hundred feet deep, with windmill 
attached, and other modern improvements. His residence is a handsome 
structure, both as to size and architectural design, and furnishes a 
model home. His land is located in section 10, township 125, range 62. 

Mr. McGregor was married in 1892 to Mrs. Margaret A. Holt, nee Scott. 
Mrs. McGregor, by her former marriage, was the mother of three 
children, Grace C. Lewis, John T., of New Orleans, and Anna Holt, now 
residing at home. Mr. and Mrs. McGregor have taken a little girl, 
Gertrude Wood, into their home and she now resides with them. Mr. 
McGregor is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and is a man of 
sterling qualities. He affiliates with the Masonic fraternity and the 
Ancient Order of United Workmen, and is popular in the local lodges of 
these orders. In political faith he is a Democrat and stands firmly for 
the party which he represents. He advocates temperance and is an ardent 
worker for reform. He attends strictly to his own affairs, makes every 
man his friend, and enjoys his life among those where he has chosen to 
reside. To such men the community is indebted and willingly accords him 
words of respect, as a man of honest principles, industrious habits and 
broad mind.