Rock Creek Township
HIRAM GREGG, Commissioner The subject of this review has just completed his second term as Commissioner of Carroll County, having been chosen to act in that official capacity from District No. 1, and as a candidate of the Republican party, first, in the October election, 1874, and again in the fall of 1877. The verdict of the people is that he has made a satisfactory Commissioner. In the discharge of his duties he has been firm but courteous, supplying the needs of the county with impartial hand, and having a heart always the best interests of the whole of the people. May the party in the future be as successful in its Choice of men to fill this arduous and often disagreeable position as it has been in the selection of Mr. Gregg.Hiram Gregg was born in Warren County, Ohio, on the 2oth day of December, 1828, his father, William Gregg, being of Irish descent, and his mother, Susannah (Millard) Gregg, of Quaker lineage, and a native of Pennsylvania. In November, 1853, he emigrated from Ohio to the Hoosier State, taking up his residence originally in Deer Creek Township, whence, in 1863, he removed to his present home, in Rock Creek Township. In occupation he is a farmer, owning and managing with skill on of the best farms in his township. In 1852, on the 29th day of December, he was joined in marriage, at Dayton Ohio, to Amanda E. Crosley, a native of Montgomery County, in that State. Six children – Emma J. (wife of I. L. Groniger), William C., John H., Lewis F., Kelly S., Della F.—have been born of this union.
Mr. Gregg is a member of the Rockfield Lodge I. O. O. F., and the course of his membership ahs filled all the chairs of the subordinate lodge of that order, and in the Grand Lodge of Indiana, in 1872, he represented the Rockfield Chapter.
Mr. Gregg had not the fortune of a school education, yet he possesses the intelligence of a self made man – and intelligence acquired by reading and mixing with men of recognized ability.
In disposition he is somewhat retiring, shunning and disliking notoriety. In his own community, he is thoroughly respected as a citizen and companion. In his dealing with men he is straightforward and manly. No better or more desirable man resides in Rock Creek Township.
County Coordinator: Suzy Sprague suzyq.wa@worldnet.att.net