Charles F. McGregor Biography


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	including biographical sketches of prominent old settlers and 
	representative citizens of South Dakota..." Published by G. A. Ogle & 
	Co., Chicago, 1899. Pages 405-406

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CHARLES F. McGREGOR, auditor of McCook county, South Dakota, and 
assistant cashier of the McCook County State Bank at Salem, is one of 
the rising young business men of this section of the state. He is but 
twenty-four years of age, having been born in Butler county, Iowa, June 
29, 1874 

Our subject was given the advantages of an excellent education, and 
graduated from the Clarksville High School, in 1891. At the age of 
eighteen years he located in Spencer South Dakota, and within a year 
had established himself as assistant cashier of the State Bank of 
Spencer. He remained in this position for three years, receiving the 
practical business' education afforded by a bank. His accuracy and 
readiness, combined with his honesty, gained him the esteem of his 
employers, and the community at large, and in 1895 he obtained his 
present position, as assistant cashier of McCook County State Bank. The 
fact of his popularity is best established by the success of his 
candidacy for auditor of McCook county, when in 1898 he was called upon 
to fill this important public office, and was elected on the Republican 
ticket by a good majority over a popular fusionist. 

Mr. McGregor is the son of James A. and Hannah (McWilliams) McGregor, 
and was the seventh of a family of eight children. His father is of 
Scotch descent, and his mother is a native of Ireland. They are both 
living, and our subject attends to the landed interest of his father, 
who has retired from active farm life. 

In 1894 our subject was married to Miss Lizzie M. Buch, who is of 
German descent, and the: daughter of a pioneer merchant of Spencer. Mr. 
and Mrs. McGregor are the parents of two children, a daughter, upon 
whom they have bestowed the name of Lulu Leon, and Rodney J. Mr. 
McGregor is a member of the Knights of Pythias Lodge, No. 60.