Montgomery-Stewart County TN Archives Biographies.....McGregor, Hiram C. 1871 - 
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Author: Will T. Hale

   HIRAM C. MCGREGOR, M. D. Established in the successful practice of his

profession in the thriving and attractive village of New Providence, Dr.

McGregor is recognized as one of the representative physicians and surgeons of

Montgomery county, and his standing as a citizen and as an exponent of his

profession well entitles him to specific consideration in the publication.

Further consistency is given to such recognition by reason of the fact that the

doctor is a scion of one of the old and honored families of Tennessee and that

he is a native of the county in which he has achieved marked prestige in his

profession, the lineage of the McGregor family being traced back to the

stanchest of Scottish origin.



   Dr. McGregor was born in Montgomery county, Tennessee, on the 25th of

October, 1871, and is a son of W. B. and Ruth (Shrader) McGregor, the former of

whom was born in Stewart county, this state, in the year, 1832, and the latter

of whom was born in northern Kentucky, in 1839, of German ancestry. The marriage

of the doctor's parents was solemnized in Tennessee, and of the thirteen

children of this union eight are living, the doctor having been the seventh

child. Charles is a resident of Nashville; William and Clarence maintain their

home in Stewart county, as does also Leslie; Tilden is a resident of the city of

Nashville; Florence is the wife of Rev. Jerold G. Harper, who is a clergyman of

the Methodist Episcopal church, South, and they reside in Shelbyville,

Tennessee; and Clayton is a resident of Stewart county. William B. McGregor was

reared and educated in his native county and as a youth he learned the

carpenter's trade. He became a successful contractor and builder, to which line

of enterprise he devoted his attention during the greater part of his active

career, though in earlier life he was for a time engaged in the

tobacco-brokerage business. He erected many of the fine buildings at Oakwood and

Wood-lawn, Montgomery county, and he was known as a skilled artisan and upright

and progressive citizen. He passed the closing years of his life in the village

of Indian Mound, Stewart county, and died at the age of seventy-four years. The

mother is still living and resides on a farm near Indian Mound. William B.

McGregor was a stalwart Democrat in his political proclivities and was well

fortified in his convictions concerning matters of public import. He was

affiliated with the lodge and chapter of the Masonic fraternity and also with

the Royal Arcanum, and was a zealous member of the Baptist church, as was also

his wife.



   Dr. Hiram C. McGregor is indebted to the public schools of Stewart county for

his early educational training, which was supplemented by higher academic study

in Dover Academy. In preparation for his exacting profession he entered the

medical department of Nashville University, in which he was graduated as a

member of the class of 1903 and from which he received his degree of Doctor of

Medicine. Thereafter he was engaged in general practice at Indian Mound, Stewart

county, until 1907, when he removed to New Providence, Montgomery county, where

he has built up a large and representative practice, the same extending

throughout a wide radius of country. He is progressive and liberal in his civic

attitude and is one of the popular and honored citizens of Montgomery county. He

is identified with the Montgomery County Medical Society and the Tennessee State

Medical Society, and he keeps in close touch with the advances made in both

departments of his profession.



   In politics Dr. McGregor gives a stanch allegiance to the cause of the

Democratic party, but he has had no desire for public office of any order. He is

affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, the Order of the Eastern Star, the

Woodmen of the World, and the Loyal Order of Moose. He has achieved success

through his own well ordered endeavors, and he is the owner of a valuable farm,

of three hundred and fifty acres, in Stewart county. Reverting briefly to his

ancestry, it may be stated that the doctor's grandfather was Noah McGregor and

that the latter was a son of Bartlett McGregor, who came from Scotland and

founded the American branch of the family. The doctor's maternal grandfather was

Michael Shrader, who came to the United States from Germany when a young man.



    In the year 1893 was solemnized the marriage of Dr. McGregor to Miss Mary

Watkins, of Indian Mound, Stewart county, and she passed to the life eternal in

1908. She is survived by one daughter, Margaret, who remains at the paternal

home. In 1910 Dr. McGregor wedded Mrs. Evelyn (Key) Peacher, widow of Wm.

Peacher, and they have one child, to whom has been given the pleasing old

Scottish name of Rob Roy.



Additional Comments:
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A history of Tennessee and Tennesseans : the leaders and representative men in

commerce, industry and modern activities

by Will T. Hale

Chicago:  Lewis Pub. Co.,  1913





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