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FRANK GREGORY,
Retired Business Man. In their Ohio home the New England
families of Gregory and Tinker were united in the
marriage of Frank Gregory and Henrietta Lydia Tinker, and
this record is in commemoration of the lives and productive works of
a representative member of each line, whose life endeavors were
seated mainly in Ohio.
Among the early settlers of Ashtabula, Ohio, was
Lucius Gregory, a native of Connecticut, who located in
Harpersfield township, where he was a land owner and farmer.
He married Dolly Kasson, and their declining years were spent
in the home of their son, Frank Gregory, in Ashtabula, where
their son and daughter-in-law surrounded them with every comfort
that tender and loving care could provide. Both are buried in
the family plat at Geneva. They were the parents of two
children, Frank, of whom further, and Vandalia, who
married Wilder Dow, and died in Geneva, Ohio.
Frank Gregory, son of Lucius and Dolly
(Kasson) Gregory, was born in Harpersfield township, Ashtabula
county, Ohio, June 24, 1843. He attended the schools of his
native township and Geneva, and as a young man learned the
machinist's trade, which he followed in Geneva and at Garrettsville,
Portage county, Ohio, having in the latter place charge of the
machine shop of his father-in-law, Charles Otis Tinker, he
built the Phoenix Iron Works, in which Charles Tinker was a
leading stockholder. Mr. Gregory was associated with
that institution for several years, when ill health compelled him to
retire from mechanical lines, and in 1879 he established a livery
and sales stable on Park street. For more than thirty years he
continued in this field of business, and his operations were
attended by a large degree of material success. At the end of
his time he sold his property and his business and retired from
active affairs, spending the remaining years of his life in
Ashtabula, where his death occurred May 10, 1919. His business
word in the course of his long participation in active affairs in
Ashtabula came to have the dependence of his written agreement, and
there was no man who ever had dealings with him but who testified to
his unbending integrity and stalwart uprightness. He was
kindly and considerate in deportment, ordered his life in accordance
with the Golden Rule, and bore to his grave the love and respect of
all who came into contact with him. He was a Republican in
politics but cared little for public life, domestic tastes ruling
his entire life.
He married, in Geneva, Ohio, in November, 1863,
Henrietta Lydia Tinker, born in Kingsville, Ohio, Sept. 11,
1846, daughter of Charles and Mary (Webster) Tinker.
Mrs. Gregory is a member of Mary Stanley Chapter,
Daughters of the American Revolution, of Ashtabula, and has been a
loyal supporter of the Woman's Suffrage movement. Her
political preferment is Republican, and she has been active in civic
and charitable work in her city. Children of Frank and
Henrietta Lydia (Tinker) Gregory: 1. Lena, educated in
Ashtabula schools; married John Dow, and resides in
Ashtabula. 2. Arthur L., head of the firm of A. L.
Gregory & Company, of Ashtabula, furniture dealers and funeral
directors; married Elizabeth Ford, who9 died Dec. 1, 1919,
and is buried in in Chestnut Cemetery. 3. Harry Bertell
(Bert), married Jennie Munger, and died in Geneva, Ohio,
his residence, Feb. 19, 1920; he was a graduate of the University of
Michigan law department, and was admitted to the bar.
 Source: American Biography - A New Cyclopedia - Illustrated
- Vol. XI - Publ. The American Historical Society, Inc., New York -
1922 - Page 97 |
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