ALONZO J. GREGORY
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Alonzo J. GREGORY, manager of the S. A. BROWN & Co. Lumber Company yards at Peirce City, Mo., was born in Grayson County, Tex., March 6, 1859, and is a son of Josiah M. and Emily O. (JOHNSON) GREGORY, who were born in Tennessee and Washington County, Mo., respectively. A. J. Gregory was brought to Lawrence County, Mo., in 1869, and his boyhood days were spent in tilling the soil and attending school. His first business experience was with his father in selling agricultural implements, and in 1883 engaged in his present business. He has been quite successful, and as a business man ranks among the first in the county. Besides dealing in lumber he is also engaged in handling grain. Mr. Gregory is one of the leaders of young Democracy, and at present a member of the city council, and is president of the board; this year he is nominee of his party for collector of the revenue of the county. September 14, 1881, he was married to Miss Minnie E. MORRISON, who was born in Kansas, and reared and educated at Paris, Ill., and by her is the father of two children--Irma and Will.
From "A Reprint of Goodspeed's 1888 History of Lawrence County; Reprint
Lawrence County Section of Goodspeed's Newton, Lawrence, Barry And McDonald Counties History; published by the Goodspeed Publishing Co., in 1888; Reprinted by Litho Printers Of Cassville, Missouri In 1973."
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