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Croix, a vessel of superior armament and crew. Ou April as, 1832, he was promoted commander and ou Jan. 18, 1838, captain. He commanded the liaritan in the blockatle squadron off the coast of Jlexico, 1846-47, and the African squadron, 1849-53. When the civil war occurred he was made superintendent of construction of vessels building outside of U.S. navy yards and continued in that service till his death. He was jiromoted rear-admiral on the retire 1 list July 10, 1SG3, and died in Brooklyu, N.Y.. Oct. 4, 1866.

GREGORY, Henry Duval, educator, was born in Northern Liberties, Pliiladelphia, Pa., Sept. 18, 1819; son of Caspar Ramsay and Mary Hohnes (Meneely) Gregory, and grandson of Rene and Agues (Roubeu)* Grfigoire. His grandfather, a French soldier, with his bride settled on a coffee and cocoa plantation in Santo Domingo and there thirteen chil- dren were born to them, of whom Caspar Ramsay, born March 4, 1787, alone escaped at the time of the massacre, through the kindness of Cap- tain Harris, master of a schooner running to Fairton, N.J. The boy continued to fol- low the sea aud be- came master of a schooner. Captain Harris induced him to spell his name Gregory and to drop his Frencli accent. He was mar- ried to a widow, Mary Holmes (Meneely) Magill, and they removed from Salem, N.J., to Phila- delphia and had two children, Henry Duval and Caspar Robue Gregory. Henrj' Duval at- tended the school of John Livensetter, and in 1831 entered the grammar school of the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania as a free pupil under the Rev. Dr. Crawford. He was graduated from the University in 1838 as Greek salutatorian and re- mained there as a teacher in the academic de- partment, 1838-43. He was professor of the Greek and Latin languages in Haverford school (afterward college) 1843-45; principal of a classi- cal academy in Philadelphia, 1845-72: of Geneseo, N.Y'., academy, 1873-74, and of Blair Presbyte- rial academy at Blairstown, NJ., 1875-83. He was vice-president of Girard college, 1883-93, re- signing his position on account of advancing age anil failing health. He was a member of the

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American philosophical society, 1889-97, and of various benevolent boards of the Presbyterian church. He was married, Aug. 15, 1843, to Mary, daughter of William and Mary Jones, and of liis children, Caspar Renfi, University of Pennsyl- vania, 1864, became professor of theology in the University of Leipzig; William Jones, University of Pennsylvania, 1881, a clergyman in Nichols, N.Y., and Rachel became the wife of Dr. Her- man B. AUyn. The honorary degree of Pli.D. was conferred on him by Lafayette college in 1875, and that of LL. D. by Centre college, Ken- tucky, in 18S5. He published: Trigonometrical Lines for the Blackboard (1861); Index to Mitchell's Atlan (IS'O): a,w\ Laij man's Look at Four Miracles (1894). He died in Philadelphia, Feb. 14, 1897. GREGORY, John Milton, educator, was born at Sand Lake, N.Y., July 6, 1822; son of the Hon. Joseph Gregory. His ancestors were among the first settlers of Norwalk, Conn., in 1753, and are supposed to have come from Massachusetts. He was graduated at Union college in 1846, standing second iu a class of ninety -three. He then studied law, and afterward theology, teaching and preaching at intervals. In 1853 he removed to Detroit, Mich., and took charge of a classical school, where he also preached in the Baptist church. In 1854 he was elected president of the State teachers' association and then devoted some years to the organization of county educational societies, holding teachers' institutes, and editing the Michir/an Journal of Education. In 1858 he was elected superintendent of public instruction, and was re-elected in 1860 and 1863. He was president of Kalamazoo college, 1864-67, and in the latter j^ear was elected to the presidency of Illinois Industrial university, and of its board of trustees, with the title of regent, and entered immediately on the work of its organization. In the summer of 1869 lie visited Europe to make observations upon polytechnic and agricultural schools, and in 1873 went to Vienna as commis- sioner to the World's fair. He served as one of the judges at the Centennial exposition at Phila- delphia in 1876, and was commissioner from Illinois at the Paris exposition of 1878. He re- signed the regency of the Illinois Industrial uni- versity (University of Illinois after 1885). in 1881, and removed to Washington, D.C. He was a member of the civil .service commission, 1883-85, and studied social-economic problems in Europe, 1885-89. The degree of LL.D. was conferred upon him by Madison university in 1864. Besides his editorial work he is the author of many ad- dresses and contributions to the press. He pub- lished: The Map of Time (1866); The Handbook of History {18QG); A jYcto Political Economy (1882); and T)ie Seven Laws of Teaching (1883). He died in Washington, D.C, Oct. 19, 1898.