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QREQORY, Eliot, artist and writer, was born in New York •■ity, Oct. 13, 1850; son of Gilbert and Eliza (Morgan) Gregory; grandson of Louis and Clarissa (Van Rensselaer) Gregory; and a descendant of Gilbert (iregory, who came from England and settled in Wilton, Conn., where the original house, built in 1640 and rebuilt in 1750, was still standing and inhabited in 1900. J. Fen- imore Cooper, the author, was his great uncle. Eliot Gregory attended Y'ale scientific school in 1874, and in 187G went to Paris where he studied art under Carolus Duran, and in 1880 exhibited a portrait of Longfellow in the Paris salon. He also exliibited a piece of sculpture, Corinne, and a portrait bust, in the Paris salons of 1880 and 18S3, respectively. His paintings include iS'ou- hrette (188:^); Coquetterie (1884); ChiUlren (1885), and portraits of Gen. George W. Culluni. in the US. military academy. West Point (1880); Ad- miral Baldwin (1882); Mrs. Astor (1885); Ada Rehau (1887), and August Belmont (1890.) He is the author of the Idler Papers; Worldly Wnijs and Byways (1898) and the comedy Under the Stars

GREGORY, Elisha Hall, educator, was born in Kentucky, Sept. 10, 1824; son of Charles and Sophia (Hall) Gregory, and grandson of Elisha Hall of Fredericksburg, Va. His father was of Scotch and his mother of English ancestry. He removed to Boonville, Mo., when a child and was educated by his mother, a teacher. He was graduated from the St. Louis medical college, St. Louis university, in March, 1849, and remained there as a teacher of surgery and anatomy in 1853, and as professor of the principles and prac- tice of surgery and clinical sui'gery after 1852. He was elected chairman of the board of over- seers of St. Louis medical college which in 1891 became the medical department of Washington university and was made president of the Ameri- can medical association in 1887. He received the honorary degree of LL. D. from St. Louis imiver- sity in 1879.

QREQORY, Emily Lovira, botanist, was born in Port:ige, N.Y., Dec. 31, 1841; daughter of David and Calista (Stone) Gregor}% and grand- daughter of Samuel and Lydia (Lathrop) Greg- orj'. She received her early education at the schools and academies of Portage and Angolia, N.Y.; taught at Fredonia and Albion, N.Y., and was graduated from Cornell, LB., in 1881. She was a private student in the botanical laboratories of Professor Wiegand at Marburg, Professor Reinke at (lottingen, and Professor Schwendener at Berlin, 1881-83; of Prof. George L. Goodale at Harvard, and in charge of the laboratory work at .the Harvard annex, 1883-84, and was a teacher of botany at Smith college in 1884. In June, 1894, while studying with Dr. William G.

Farlow in the museum of compai'ative zoology at Harvard, she was appointed associate in botany at Bryn Mawr college, with leave of absence. She was a private pupil of Professor Schwen- dener at Berlin university in 1884; studied for the degree of Ph.D. at Zurich, 188.5-80; was associate in botany at Bryn Mawr, 1886- 88, and worked with Prof. William P. Wil- son at the University of Pennsylvania. She founded the botanical department at Bar- nard college, Colum- bia university, N.Y., and was dii'ector of botany there, 1889- 93, and professor of /r /> j' ^ botany, 1893-97. Dur- 0'?n^<^.M^e-tp_^ ing her connection

with Barnard, she spent several summers abroad doing special botanical work. She was a member of the Torrey botanical club. New Y'ork cit}'. She received the degree of Ph.D. from Zurich in 1886. She published " Elements of Plant Anatomy."' In 1898 the Botanical club of Barnard college equipped as a laboratory, a room in Brinkerhoff Hall for the special study of physiological botany, on the wall of which is a bronze tablet bearing the following inscrip- tion: "'This Laboratory for the Study of Phys- iological Botany is dedicated to the Memory of Emily L. Gregory, Ph.D., Professor of Botany in Barnaril college from its opening in 1889, until her death in 1897." She died in New Y^ork city April 14, 1H97.

QREQORY, Francis Hoyt, naval officer, was born in Norwalk, Conn., Oct. 3, 1789. He was in the merchant-marine service, 1807-09; was war- ranted a midshipman in the U.S. navy in 1809. and the next year while in command of the 1 arf.e of the Ve.snvi\is, stationed oS Belize, he captired an English slaver and released the cargo of s-iavts. He was made acting-master in 1811, and with gunboat No. 163, he captured a pirate scli i ner, disabled and put to flight a British privateer, and took as a prize a Spanish pirate of fourteen guns. He was then assigned to Commodore Chainicey's fleet on Lake Ontario, and was promoted lieuten- ant, Jan. 38, 1814. He was taken prisoner by the British in August, and carried to England, where he was detained nearly two years. In 1810 he joined an American frigate cruising against Algiers, and returned to America at the end of the Algerian war. He was commander of the schooner fframpiis cruising in the Gulf of Mexico, and captured the pirate brig Pandrila near St.