Gregg Family Papers, 1808-1943
Held by The Filson Historical Society
Creator: Gregg Family
Title: Papers, 1808-1943
Rights: For information regarding literary and copyright interest for these papers, contact the Collections Department.
Size of Collection: 0.33 cubic feet
Location Number: Mss. A G819
Scope and Content Note
Collection spans 1808-1943 and is contained in 12 folders in one box. Folder 8, Account Book dated 1808-1840, is wrapped separately. Of interest, military documents such as order books, muster rolls, monthly reports, and ration accounts pertaining to Captain Aaron Gregg’s 16th Kentucky Militia Infantry Regiment stationed at Ft. Malden, Ontario, during the War of 1812; Civil War material including correspondence which describes conditions at Camp Dennison, Ohio, and God’s hand in the conflict, a wallpaper edition (facsimile-?) of the 2 July 1863 Vicksburg, Miss. Daily Citizen, other newspaper clippings, and pro-Union letterhead; and diaries and account books which depict farm life in Bracken County, Ky. Miscellaneous items include newspaper clippings about John G. Fee; social reform tracts by Fee, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Elihu Burritt; John D. Gregg’s poetry, campaign memorabilia, medicinal home remedies, Aaron Gregg’s banking transactions, an 1863 letter about Oberlin College, and a 1943 letter signed by Eleanor Roosevelt about visiting farm wives in Nebraska.
Note of Separation:
Folder 4, Oversize Military Documents dated 1814, is filed separately from the collection. Photocopies of the documents are available in Folder 5, Military Documents dated 1814-1819.
Biographical Note
Aaron Gregg
- Captain in the 16th Kentucky Militia Infantry Regiment stationed at Ft. Malden, Ontario, during the War of 1812.
- Born: Pennsylvania
- Married: Mary Gregg
- Children include:
- John D. Gregg
- Hiram D. Gregg
- Samuel Gregg
- Died: 7 January 1841, Bracken County, Ky.
John D. Gregg
- Born: ca. 1802
- Married: 27 December 1832, Isabella Doak (b. ca. 1815)
- Children include:
- Leandro Gregg (b. ca. 1833)
- Lycurgus Gregg (b. ca. 1838)
- Elizabeth Gregg (b. ca. 1844)
- Died: 11 March 1876, in Bracken County, Ky.
Hiram D. Gregg
- Married: 10 April 1828, Elizabeth Humlong Gregg
- Children include:
- Rebecca Gregg
- Mary Gregg
- Aaron Gregg
- Hiram Francis Gregg
- John Humlong Gregg
John Humlong Gregg
- Born: 21 December 1845
- Married: 15 October 1867, Eudora Evaline Kenyon Gregg
- Died: 8 January 1919
Linneus C. Gregg
- Born: 1837
- Married: 27 October 1859, Martha Humlong
- Died: 1903
- Possibly son of John D. Gregg or Hiram D. Gregg
Folder List
Folder 1: Correspondence, 1863-1943
Folder 2: Diary, 1821 and 1823
Folder 3: Diary, 1861
Folder 4: Oversize Military Documents, 1814; Documents for Captain Aaron Gregg’s 16th Kentucky Militia Infantry Regiment. Separated from the collection and located in the Oversize documents case. Photocopies have been placed in Folder 5, Military Documents, 1814-1815.
Folder 5: Military Documents, 1814-1815; Documents for Captain Aaron Gregg’s 16th Kentucky Militia Infantry Regiment. Includes photocopies of Folder 4, Oversize Military Documents, 1814.
Folder 6: Military Order Book, 1814-1819; Orders for Captain Aaron Gregg’s 16th Kentucky Militia Infantry Regiment from 1814-1815. Includes Gregg’s personal banking transactions from 1818-1819.
Folder 7: Military Order Book, 1814-1836; Orders for Captain Aaron Gregg’s 16th Kentucky Militia Infantry Regiment from 1814-1815. Includes Gregg’s personal banking transactions from 1818-1834 and medicinal home remedies from 1836.
Folder 8: Account Book, 1808-1840; Belongs to Aaron Gregg. Wrapped separately.
Folder 9: Account Book, 1861-1876
Folder 10: John D. Gregg’s Poetry Book, 1825-1862
Folder 11: Newspaper Clippings, ca. 1847-1919, no date
Folder 12: Miscellaneous Items, 1819-1903, no date
