GREGG, Daniel H.
Hon. Daniel H. GREGG, county judge of
Marshall
county and recognized as one of the learned and able members of
the bar of this section of
Illinois, makes his home in Wenona,
where he is also engaged in the real-estate and insurance
business. He was born in Rodman, Jefferson county, new York, August 15, 1867, and is a son of
Joseph and Margaret (IRWIN) GREGG, who were of Scotch and Irish
descent. They were married before coming to
America
and upon reaching the United
States
settled in the state of
New York. The father, a farmer by
occupation, came to Illinois
in 1872, locating in La Salle county,
Illinois, where he and his wife are now
living. He is retired from business cares, however, and they
make their home in the village of Harding.
They have seven living children, five sons and two daughters:
Mrs. Anna GOODMAN, a widow; James, at home; Mary, the wife of
Charles H. OSTRAND, superintendent of the Kelvyn Grove school,
of Chicago, which position he has occupied for about fifteen
years; Daniel H.; Joseph W., who is engaged in the hardware
business in Earlville; Robert, an attorney at law of Denver,
Colorado, and a teacher in a law school of that city; and
William, a farmer.
Judge GREGG was educated in the country schools and in the Northwestern Normal School at Geneseo, from which he
was graduated with the class of 1887. He then engaged in
teaching for several years in the district schools and also in
the city schools of Chicago. He spent six terms in one school and
was a capable educator, imparting clearly and readily to others
the knowledge that he had acquired. In April, 1898, he came to
Wenona and entered the law office of J. H. JACKSON, with whom he
pursued his preliminary reading. Subsequently he took a law
course in Kent College of Law at Chicago,, from which he was graduated in June,
1902. A month prior to that time he successfully passed the
examination that secured his admission to the bar and after
entering upon the practice of law he soon secured a good
clientele and also obtained a good clientage in the real-estate
and insurance business. With the exception of the first year of
his residence in Wenona he has continuously held office since
locating here. When twenty-one years of age he was elected town
clerk and justice of the peace, filling those offices in a
republican township. When he had been in Wenona for a year he
was elected police magistrate, from which office he resigned a
year later. He was then elected mayor of Wenona and gave to the
city a public-spirited, practical and progressive
administration. In 1902 he was chosen county judge and is now a
candidate for re-election. On the bench he has made a most
creditable record as one whose decisions are strictly fair and
impartial and are moreover based upon a thorough knowledge of
the law and a correct application of legal principles to the
points in issue.
Judge GREGG was married on the 3d of March, 1903, to Miss
Martha MISSAL, a native of enona and of German descent. They
now have one son, Neal Ellsworth, born May 7, 1905. The judge is
a member of the Masonic fraternity, belonging to both the lodge
and chapter. He has made many warm friends in Wenona among both
the republicans and democrats, for he has a nature that
transcends partisan prejudice and recognizes character, nobility
and worth. Community interests elicit his deep attention and if
he regards a movement as beneficial he does not hesitate to give
hit his hearty support and endorsement. His attention is thus
given to fraternal, social and municipal interests and yet his
time is most largely devoted to his profession and his business
interests, and at the bar he has gained a leading place that
brought to him a large clientele and has now gained for him
judicial honors.
Extracted 12 June 2011 by Norma Hass from
Past and Present of Marshall and Putnam Counties Illinois, 1907.
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