Gregg Resources
West Virginia Vital Records on line at www.wvculture.org
Quiet Dell Methodist Church on line at http://quietdellumc.us/history.htm
History of Medicine in Harrison County, West Virginia, Physicians 1784-1977, Alice Jo Hess, Harrison County Medical Society, 1978
History of Medicine in Harrison County, West Virginia, Physicians 1784-1977, Alice Jo Hess, Harrison County Medical Society, 1978
John Gregg, M.D., was born May 27, 1838, near Kingwood, Preston
County, Virginia, now West Virginia. He lived on a farm in his native county and
received his early education in the schools of his area. He was a graduate of
Starling Medical College, Columbus, Ohio, after which he was appointed an
assistant surgeon in the army during the Civil War.
On December 25, 1866, at Uniontown, Ohio, John Gregg was united in marriage with
Elizabeth Clark, who was born in Belmont County, Ohio, on May 13, 1841. To this
union were born six children: Myrtle, who married M.D. Garrison and lived in
Quiet Dell; Mrs. E.A. Batton, of Clarksburg; Mary, who married E.A. Rider, of
Clarksburg; Louise, who married L. Warren Mines, of Clarksburg; Mrs. L. M.
Barnard, of Frewsburg, New York; and Warren C. Gregg, who lived in Akron, Ohio.
Dr. Gregg practiced his profession at Rowlesburg, West Virginia, until 1876, at
which time he moved to Quiet Dell, Harrison County, where he continued his
practice for twenty-five years. In October 1901 he moved to the Broad Oaks
section of Clarksburg, where he remained until his death.
In 1877 Dr. Gregg was a charter member of the Harrison County Medical Society
and he served that organization as its first president. At the initial meeting
of the county society on June 30, 1877, Dr. Gregg read a paper entitled "On the
Passage of a Calculus from the Bladder." When the County Medical Society was
reorganized, Dr. Gregg was elected to membership on April 4, 1905.
He was elected to membership in the Medical Society of State of West Virginia on
June 2 1875, and was licensed to practice medicine in West Virginia in 1881,
when medical licensing became required by law. He took an active interest in the
state organization, serving on the Publication Committee in 1878; as a
vice-president in 1879 and on the Necrology committee in 1886. On May 20, 1886,
Dr. Gregg presented a paper entitled "Quinsy as a Sequel of Diphtheria" before
the state medical annual meeting in Charleston. A copy of this paper is included
in the files of the Harrison County Medical Society.
Politically, the doctor was a member of the Republican party, and in religion,
he was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
On August 18, 1906, John Gregg, M.D., died at sixty-eight years of age. His
wife, Elizabeth (Clark) Gregg, preceded him in death in November the previous
year, and she was buried on November 29, 1905, in Elk View Cemetery, Clarksburg,
West Virginia.