Dr. Charles Henry Gregory

Brief Life History of Charles Henry

When Dr. Charles Henry Gregory was born on 28 January 1795, in Catskill, Catskill, Greene, New York, United States, his father, Dr. Uriah Morehouse Gregory, was 27 and his mother, Lucretia Ely, was 24. He married Kezia Downing Barber in 1820, in New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Sand Lake, Rensselaer, New York, United States for about 5 years and Washtenaw, Michigan, United States in 1860. He died on 26 May 1866, in Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States.

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Family Time Line

Dr. Charles Henry Gregory
1795–1866
Kezia Downing Barber
1801–1842
Marriage: 1820
John Milton Gregory
1822–1898
Mary Gregory
1823–1900
Emily Gregory
1828–1828
Augusta Gregory
1829–1869
Julia Gregory
1830–1877
Caroline Gregory
1832–1924
Edward Barber Gregory
1834–1883
Ellen Gregory
1835–1904
Charles Downing Gregory
1838–1907

Sources (6)

  • Charles H Gregory, "United States Census, 1860"
  • Charles Henry Gregory, "Find a Grave Index"
  • Unknown in entry for John Milton Gregory, "District of Columbia, Deaths, 1874-1961"

World Events (8)

1796 · Cleaveland is Founded

Cleaveland was founded by surveyors of the Connecticut Land Company after being sent out to lay out townships and a capital city. It was named after the lead surveyor, General Moses Cleaveland. He then oversaw the design and partial construction of the Public Square in what is now the downtown area.

1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.

While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.

1819 · Panic! of 1819

With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years. 

Name Meaning

English (of Norman origin) and French: from a personal name that was popular throughout Christendom in the Middle Ages. The Greek original, Grēgorios, is a derivative of grēgorein ‘to be awake, to be watchful’. However, the Latin form, Gregorius, came to be associated by folk etymology with grex, gregis ‘flock, herd’, under the influence of the Christian image of the good shepherd. The Greek name was borne in the early Christian centuries by two fathers of the Orthodox Church, Saint Gregory Nazianzene (c. 325–390) and Saint Gregory of Nyssa (c. 331–395), and later by sixteen popes, starting with Gregory the Great (c. 540–604). It was also the name of 3rd- and 4th-century apostles of Armenia. In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed many cognates from other languages, e.g. Italian Gregorio , German, Slovak, and Slovenian Gregor , Polish Grzegorz, Czech Řehoř (see Rehor ), and French Gregoire , and also their patronymics and other derivatives, e.g. Polish Grzegorczyk .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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