A History of Montana, Volume 3, page 1748
Jacob B. Gregg
Jacob B. Gregg is a prominent businessman of Ryegate, Mont., who has extensive ranching interests in Musselshell county, and is numbered among the progressive and enthusiastic promoters of this section of Montana.
He was born in Williamstown, W. Va., March 16, 1862, and was a lad of about seven years of age when his parents moved to Le Sueur county, Minn., and gave him the first glimpse of western life. There he grew to the legal age of manhood, acquired a public school education, and earned his first money as a boy, working in a stone quarry, later following railroad work for a while; then he moved to South Dakota, where he resided eleven years and followed farming and stock buying. Returning to Minnesota, he farmed in Douglas county and also engaged in the sawmill business there until 1904, when he moved to the northwestern part of North Dakota. There he organized the Star livery and Implement Company, and became president and active manager of the concern, but at the end of three years he sold those interests and returned to Minnesota, where he later bought a stock of merchandise and shipped it to Ryegate, Mont. In Feb. 1912, he sold the general store he had opened and conducted at Ryegate and has since given his attention exclusively to the implement business, his stock including everything appurtenant to this business.
He owns several fine ranches south of Ryegate which he rents out, and he is personally experimenting in fruit raising in this section. During his thirty years of business experience he has been engaged in the meat business four times.
The marriage of Jacob Gregg occurred at Lexington, Minnesota, on Sept. 27, 1882, and united him to Miss Fannie Sires, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Sire of that place.
To this union were born five daughters and three sons: John J., now a resident of northern Canada; Ida M., who married Joseph Zingham and resides at Mandan, N.D.; Grace, now Mrs. Merritt E. Doty of Lewistown, Mont.; Edith, Mrs. William H. Graham, of Lewistown, Mont., Bertha, Mrs. Lloyd Smith, resides near Ryegate, Mont., Mary E. at the parental home, and William H. and Leslie, both of whom are attending school.
Mr. Gregg is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America and in political views is a Republican. While a resident of Minnesota and Dakota her served at different times in various minor offices, such as supervisor, county commissioner, and chairman of the school board, and during the last 20 years has frequently been a justice of the peace, in which capacity he is now serving at Ryegate.
He enjoys the different diversions essential to a well balanced life and is well informed on the live issues of the day. Mr. Gregg is very loyal to Montana and is one of the men who are contributing to its development.
Contributor: cara (47072115)
Jacob B. Gregg
Jacob B. Gregg is a prominent businessman of Ryegate, Mont., who has extensive ranching interests in Musselshell county, and is numbered among the progressive and enthusiastic promoters of this section of Montana.
He was born in Williamstown, W. Va., March 16, 1862, and was a lad of about seven years of age when his parents moved to Le Sueur county, Minn., and gave him the first glimpse of western life. There he grew to the legal age of manhood, acquired a public school education, and earned his first money as a boy, working in a stone quarry, later following railroad work for a while; then he moved to South Dakota, where he resided eleven years and followed farming and stock buying. Returning to Minnesota, he farmed in Douglas county and also engaged in the sawmill business there until 1904, when he moved to the northwestern part of North Dakota. There he organized the Star livery and Implement Company, and became president and active manager of the concern, but at the end of three years he sold those interests and returned to Minnesota, where he later bought a stock of merchandise and shipped it to Ryegate, Mont. In Feb. 1912, he sold the general store he had opened and conducted at Ryegate and has since given his attention exclusively to the implement business, his stock including everything appurtenant to this business.
He owns several fine ranches south of Ryegate which he rents out, and he is personally experimenting in fruit raising in this section. During his thirty years of business experience he has been engaged in the meat business four times.
The marriage of Jacob Gregg occurred at Lexington, Minnesota, on Sept. 27, 1882, and united him to Miss Fannie Sires, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Sire of that place.
To this union were born five daughters and three sons: John J., now a resident of northern Canada; Ida M., who married Joseph Zingham and resides at Mandan, N.D.; Grace, now Mrs. Merritt E. Doty of Lewistown, Mont.; Edith, Mrs. William H. Graham, of Lewistown, Mont., Bertha, Mrs. Lloyd Smith, resides near Ryegate, Mont., Mary E. at the parental home, and William H. and Leslie, both of whom are attending school.
Mr. Gregg is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America and in political views is a Republican. While a resident of Minnesota and Dakota her served at different times in various minor offices, such as supervisor, county commissioner, and chairman of the school board, and during the last 20 years has frequently been a justice of the peace, in which capacity he is now serving at Ryegate.
He enjoys the different diversions essential to a well balanced life and is well informed on the live issues of the day. Mr. Gregg is very loyal to Montana and is one of the men who are contributing to its development.
Contributor: cara (47072115)
A History of Montana, Volume 3, page 1748
Jacob B. Gregg
Jacob B. Gregg is a prominent businessman of Ryegate, Mont., who has extensive ranching interests in Musselshell county, and is numbered among the progressive and enthusiastic promoters of this section of Montana.
He was born in Williamstown, W. Va., March 16, 1862, and was a lad of about seven years of age when his parents moved to Le Sueur county, Minn., and gave him the first glimpse of western life. There he grew to the legal age of manhood, acquired a public school education, and earned his first money as a boy, working in a stone quarry, later following railroad work for a while; then he moved to South Dakota, where he resided eleven years and followed farming and stock buying. Returning to Minnesota, he farmed in Douglas county and also engaged in the sawmill business there until 1904, when he moved to the northwestern part of North Dakota. There he organized the Star livery and Implement Company, and became president and active manager of the concern, but at the end of three years he sold those interests and returned to Minnesota, where he later bought a stock of merchandise and shipped it to Ryegate, Mont. In Feb. 1912, he sold the general store he had opened and conducted at Ryegate and has since given his attention exclusively to the implement business, his stock including everything appurtenant to this business.
He owns several fine ranches south of Ryegate which he rents out, and he is personally experimenting in fruit raising in this section. During his thirty years of business experience he has been engaged in the meat business four times.
The marriage of Jacob Gregg occurred at Lexington, Minnesota, on Sept. 27, 1882, and united him to Miss Fannie Sires, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Sire of that place.
To this union were born five daughters and three sons: John J., now a resident of northern Canada; Ida M., who married Joseph Zingham and resides at Mandan, N.D.; Grace, now Mrs. Merritt E. Doty of Lewistown, Mont.; Edith, Mrs. William H. Graham, of Lewistown, Mont., Bertha, Mrs. Lloyd Smith, resides near Ryegate, Mont., Mary E. at the parental home, and William H. and Leslie, both of whom are attending school.
Mr. Gregg is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America and in political views is a Republican. While a resident of Minnesota and Dakota her served at different times in various minor offices, such as supervisor, county commissioner, and chairman of the school board, and during the last 20 years has frequently been a justice of the peace, in which capacity he is now serving at Ryegate.
He enjoys the different diversions essential to a well balanced life and is well informed on the live issues of the day. Mr. Gregg is very loyal to Montana and is one of the men who are contributing to its development.
Contributor: cara (47072115)
Jacob B. Gregg
Jacob B. Gregg is a prominent businessman of Ryegate, Mont., who has extensive ranching interests in Musselshell county, and is numbered among the progressive and enthusiastic promoters of this section of Montana.
He was born in Williamstown, W. Va., March 16, 1862, and was a lad of about seven years of age when his parents moved to Le Sueur county, Minn., and gave him the first glimpse of western life. There he grew to the legal age of manhood, acquired a public school education, and earned his first money as a boy, working in a stone quarry, later following railroad work for a while; then he moved to South Dakota, where he resided eleven years and followed farming and stock buying. Returning to Minnesota, he farmed in Douglas county and also engaged in the sawmill business there until 1904, when he moved to the northwestern part of North Dakota. There he organized the Star livery and Implement Company, and became president and active manager of the concern, but at the end of three years he sold those interests and returned to Minnesota, where he later bought a stock of merchandise and shipped it to Ryegate, Mont. In Feb. 1912, he sold the general store he had opened and conducted at Ryegate and has since given his attention exclusively to the implement business, his stock including everything appurtenant to this business.
He owns several fine ranches south of Ryegate which he rents out, and he is personally experimenting in fruit raising in this section. During his thirty years of business experience he has been engaged in the meat business four times.
The marriage of Jacob Gregg occurred at Lexington, Minnesota, on Sept. 27, 1882, and united him to Miss Fannie Sires, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Sire of that place.
To this union were born five daughters and three sons: John J., now a resident of northern Canada; Ida M., who married Joseph Zingham and resides at Mandan, N.D.; Grace, now Mrs. Merritt E. Doty of Lewistown, Mont.; Edith, Mrs. William H. Graham, of Lewistown, Mont., Bertha, Mrs. Lloyd Smith, resides near Ryegate, Mont., Mary E. at the parental home, and William H. and Leslie, both of whom are attending school.
Mr. Gregg is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America and in political views is a Republican. While a resident of Minnesota and Dakota her served at different times in various minor offices, such as supervisor, county commissioner, and chairman of the school board, and during the last 20 years has frequently been a justice of the peace, in which capacity he is now serving at Ryegate.
He enjoys the different diversions essential to a well balanced life and is well informed on the live issues of the day. Mr. Gregg is very loyal to Montana and is one of the men who are contributing to its development.
Contributor: cara (47072115)
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