Curtis Hussey Gregg and Frances A. Good

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Husband Curtis Hussey Gregg ^{1 2 3 4}

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            AKA: Curtis H. Greeg 5
           Born: 9 Aug 1865 - Adamsburg, Hempfield Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 1 2 4 6
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         Father: James Gregg (1821-1889) 1 3 4 7
         Mother: Eliza Cort Byerly (1826-1916) 1 4 6 7

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       Marriage: 21 Jun 1890 - Greensburg, Westmoreland Co, PA 7

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Wife Frances A. Good ^{8 9 10}

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            AKA: Minnie Good 5
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         Father: George W. Good (1849-1905) 10 11
         Mother: Maria C. Lenhart (      -Aft 1906) 10 11

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Children

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1 M James Gregg ^{8 9 10}

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           Born: 21 May 1891 - Greensburg, Westmoreland Co, PA 8 9 10
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         Spouse: Della Hadden Henshaw (      -      ) 9 10
           Marr: 8 Jun 1918 - Washington, D. C. 9 10

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2 M George Good Gregg ^{8 9 10}

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           Born: 29 Dec 1895 - Greensburg, Westmoreland Co, PA 8 9 10
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         Spouse: Kathleen McTighe (      -      ) 10
           Marr: 10 Oct 1925 10

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General Notes: Husband - Curtis Hussey Gregg

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He was reared at Adamsburg, Pennsylvania, till he was eleven years of age, when he came with his father to Greensburg where he received his education in the Greensburg high school and the Greensburg seminary. He was employed as the city editor of the Greensburg Press from 1883 to 1887. He then taught for a short period. He studied law with ex-district attorney A. M. Sloan, who was associated with Judge L. W. Doty, admitted to the bar of Westmoreland County in August, 1888, and engaged in the practice of law at Greensburg.

He received his education in the common schools and the Greensburg Seminary, where he pursued a two years' course. He began his business career in an humble manner, serving in the role of a newsboy in Greensburg, but through his aim to accomplish more in life he was soon holding the position of news editor for the Greensburg Press, and continued from 1883 to 1887. Later he taught school one term, and then applied himself to the study of law, being admitted to the bar August 4, 1888. He studied with Hon. Lucian W. Doty (later president judge of Westmoreland county), and A. M. Sloan, Esq. He almost instantly forged into the front ranks of a bar numbering a hundred members, which body stood among the most talented in the commonwealth. His knowledge and keen insight into the interpretation of legal problems, together with his forceful arguments, compelled an early recognition and made him a successful practitioner. Death causing a vacancy in the office of the district attorney in July, 1891, he was appointed to that office and nominated by the Democratic party the same year for that office, but the fates of political power were against him. He was always an ardent party worker, and being possessed of rare gifts as a public speaker was frequently drafted into hotly contested political campaigns. For four years he served on the Greensburg school board, and was a member of the town council, of which he was president one year. He was among the progenitors of the Greensburg, Jeannette & Pittsburg Electric Railway. In 1896 he was chairman of the Democratic county committee, and a hearty supporter of Colonel W. J. Bryan. It was in 1900 that he was the unsuccessful candidate for congress from the Twenty-fourth district in Pennsylvania, and was the nominee of his party for state senator in the Thirty-ninth district in 1904. During the time the Spanish-American war soldiers were enlisting and going to the seat of war from Westmoreland county, Mr. Gregg was called upon to deliver more than thirty flag-raising speeches in various parts of the county. They burned with true patriotism.
He was a member of various civic societies, including the I. O. H., B. E., K. of M., and G. F. Mr. Gregg was a member of Zion Lutheran church of Greensburg, and was the chorister there for more than twenty years. [HWC 1906 II, 129]

He served five years on the Council of the borough of Greensburg; four years on the School Board; in January, 1891, was appointed district attorney to fill a vacancy caused by death, and the same year was nominated by the Democratic party for that office; in 1896 and 1913 was chairman of the Democratic County Committee; in 1900 was the candidate for Congress from the Twenty-fourth District in Pennsylvania; was the nominee of his party for State Senator in the Thirty-ninth District in 1904. In 1910 he received the nomination of the Democratic party for Congress in the Twenty-second District of Pennsylvania, composed of the counties of Butler and Westmoreland. Although the district was normally Republican, by at least a majority of eight thousand, he was elected by a majority of four hundred and ninety-eight. In the same year there occurred in the bituminous coal district of Westmoreland county a general strike among the employees of the coal companies. The miners undertook to organize the district and secure recognition of the United Mine Workers of America. The strike began in April and during the period extending from its beginning until the following April, when Mr. Gregg was called to Washington as a member of an extraordinary session of the Sixty-second Congress, he acted as general counsel for the United Mine Workers of America, and was constantly engaged in the trial of hundreds of cases. At the organization of the Sixty-second Congress, he was selected as a member of two very important committees of the House of Representatives, viz.: "post office and post roads" and "mines and mining." As a member of the committee on post office and post roads, he took an active part in framing the bill establishing the Parcel Post.
He was a strong advocate of the Sherwood Pension Bill, which increased the pensions of veterans of the Civil War and placed their allowance upon age and service rather than upon physical disability. During the consideration of the rivers and harbors bill he had inserted in it an appropriation of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars for the preliminary survey of the Youghiogheny river. Through his efforts appropriations were also made for new post office buildings in Butler and Monessen. Prior to his election to Congress, he had a personal acquaintance with Speaker Champ Clark, which, together with his ability and personality, induced Speaker Clark, on various occasions, to call Mr. Gregg to the chair to preside, an honor seldom given to a member serving his first term in Congress.
He was interested in enterprises for the betterment and upbuilding of Greensburg, the principal of which was the Greensburg, Jeannette & Pittsburgh Electric Railway, of which he was one of the incorporators. He was a member of Zions Lutheran church of Greensburg, and at one time was president of its church council. He was also a member of various fraternal societies.

1 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 91.

2 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 128.

3 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 867.

4 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 47.

5 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 59.

6 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 868.

7 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 129.

8 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 130.

9 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 869.

10 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 48.

11 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 59, 130.