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Rh the Beaver Academy several terms, and adopted teaching as his profession. His first term of school was taught in North Sewickley township in the winter of 1847-48. This he followed in New Sewickley and adjoining townships nearly all his life, a few years being spent in newspaper work and as a mail agent. He was a very successful teacher and possessed intelligence of the highest order. In 1854 he was tuiited in marriage to Miss Eebecca A. F. Eandolph of Achor, O., a young lady of culture and refinement, a writer of considerable merit. She died in a few years leaving two children, Donald E. McGregor, and Mary E., wife of I. J. McCready of Beaver Falls, Pa. From 1857 to 1861 Mr. McGregor was mail agent on the Allegheny Valley Railroad. In 1864 and 1865 he was an editorial writer on the "Star," with Samuel K. Alexander. From 1869 to 1872 was news and editorial writer on the New Castle "Gazette," and in 1872 was employed as editorial writer on the "Conservative," with E. B. Williams, and during the presidential campaign of 1880 was editorial writer on the "Star." In the course of this campaign he made a number of speeches, and was a fluent and logical speaker. Though a good writer and speaker, his greatest pride was in his work as a teacher. After his last formal connection with a paper in 1880, he was a frequent contributor to the local press, doing a good deal of work of that kind for the Beaver "Star" and the "Beaver Valley News" of New Brighton, Pa. He died January 10, 1902.

Mr. McGregor was an unusually fine correspondent, reporting the happenings in the districts where he taught, and his communications were gladly received and published. He had the happy faculty of telling what was going on in such a way as not to offend, though the facts were not always palatable to the person or persons referred to. He had a great many rich experiences. While teaching in one of the townships, he offered to