JOSHUA KREGAR.  For a number of years successfully engaged as a teacher, this gentleman now devotes his time and attention to the cultivation of his fertile and valuable farm situated in Hopewell Township.  He is now in the prime of life, having been born Apr. 12, 1851.  The family of which he is a member was represented among the pioneers of Licking County, and endured all the hardships incident to frontier life.  His grandmother came here at a date so early in the history of the county that no roads had het been opened, and to reach this place she journeyed on a flatboat down the Muskingum River.  Our subject's parents, George and Sarah Kregar, were natives of Ohio and among the early settlers of this county.
     Joshua was the eldest child in the family.  His boyhood years were passed in an uneventful manner beneath the parental roof.  Upon attaining manhood he was united in marriage with Miss Mary E. Shaw, of Hopewell Township, Licking County, the daughter of John and Nancy (Hill) Shaw, pioneer of the county.  Three children bless the union, the eldest of whom, Harley O., is a young man of great promise, and at present resides with his parents.  The older daughter, Visa O., an amiable young lady, is a successful teacher, having charge of a school near her home.  The younger daughter, Alma T., is at home with her parents.
     For a period of fourteen years, beginning at the age of seventeen, our subject followed the profession of a teacher, and carefully saving his earnings he succeeded in accumulating a considerable amount, which he invested in land, thus laying the foundation of his present prosperity.  He is the owner of one hundred and fifty acres devoted to the raising of cereals and stock, and subdivided into fields of convenient size for the pasturage of stock and raising of grain.  In the raising of fruit Mr. Kregar has also met with success.  His motto has been "Not how much, but how well," and this principle out in his every-day duties has gained for him a reputation as a careful, pains-taking and thrifty farmer.
     It politics Mr. Kregar is a Democratic, and votes for and works with that party.  In 1890 he was elected Land Appraiser of Hopewell Township, and four years later was chosen one of the township trustees, for both of which positions he is especially fitted.  The members of his family are identified with the Methodist Church, and while he is not a church member, he is an honest, upright man, a substantial supporter of the right and a strong opposer of any wrong that may exist in the community.
Source:  Memorial Record of Licking Co., Ohio - Chicago - Record Publishing Co., 1894 - Page 450