GREGORY, GEORGE, was born Jan. 7, 1808, at Ripley, Derbyshire, England. Sarah Knowles was born Sept. 15, 1810, at Brackenfield, and they were married, June 6, 1830, at Matlack, all in Derbyshire. They had one child at Brackenfield, and Mr. Gregory came to America alone, landing at Philadelphia, in March, 1832. After about fourteen months spent in building steam engines, he returned to England, to learn that his family had already sailed for America. He came back at once to Philadelphia. They had two children in Chester county, Penn., and came to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving late in the fall of 1836, at Springfield, where they had one living child, and the family moved to a farm he had previously purchased, five miles west of Springfield, and north of Spring creek, where they had six living children. Of the ten children--

GEORGE, Jun., born Feb. 2, 1832, at Breckenfield, Derbyshire, England, was killed Jan. 1, 1842, by a horse running away with him while he was riding from Springfield to the farm.

ISAAC, born Nov. 6, 1834, in Pennsylvania, was married in Sangamon county, in 1856, to Susan Ray. They had four children, SAMUEL, ISAAC and THOMAS, twins, and ALBERT. Mrs. Susan Gregory died, and Isaac Gregory married Delia V. Moore. They have one child, FANNIE, and live near Macon, Macon county, Ill.

SAMUEL, born Sept. 30, 1836, in Pennsylvania, married in Sangamon county to Harriet Wardaugh. They had two children, and Mrs. Harriet G. died. Mr. Gregory was killed, Jan. 11, 1868, by being thrown from a horse, in Macon county. His two children, SARAH and EMMA, live with their grandfather Gregory.

JACOB, born Sept. 23, 1838, in Springfield, Ill., married Laura Stone. They have two children, MARY and GEORGE, and live near Macon.

BENJAMIN, born Jan. 12, 1842, the first on Spring creek, died in his fifth year.

ELIZABETH, born Jan. 25, 1844, in Sangamon county, married April 26, 1862, to William Day, a native of Louisiana. They have three children, EDWARD, ORLAND and SUSAN, and live with her parents.

MARY, born April 25, 1848, in Sangamon county, married Benjamin Wallace. They have two children, GRACIE and STELLA, and live in Keokuk, Iowa.

EMMA, born April 13, 1852,

ELIZA, born Jan. 6, 1854,

GEORGE, Jun., born Dec. 28, 1856, live with their parents.

George Gregory commenced work in Philadelphia, in the machine shops belonging to the State of Pennsylvania, in connection with the first railroad built in that State, which is now the Pennsylvania Central Railroad. He assisted to remove the first five locomotives that came from England, from the ships, and put them to work on the road in 1832. The people were afraid of the engines, and when the first eighty-two miles were built, from Philadelphia to Columbia, the passenger trains were run by horses; locomotives being used to draw the freight trains only. Parties interested in stage lines, taking advantage of the general distrust, caused placards to be published, with cuts representing the blowing up of locomotives, with the air full of legs and arms of human beings. Mr. Gregory remembers that a stage overturned, and killed four passengers, between Lancaster and Harrisburg. They were members of the Legislature, and their bodies were put on board a freight train, at Lancaster, and taken back to Philadelphia for interment. Mr. Gregory grimly remarked that they were the first passengers ever drawn by a locomotive over that road.

After working three years in connection with that road, rather than submit to a reduction of his wages, from $80 per month, Mr. Gregory came to Springfield, in 1836, and engaged in blacksmithing on his own account, running six fires. He was afterwards induced to take charge of the engines on the Northern Cross, now part of the Toledo, Wabash & Western railroad. He ran the road for about three years, and in the capacity of engineer, with T. M. Averitt as fireman, ran a locomotive from Jacksonville to Springfield, arriving Feb. 15, 1842, being the first railroad engine that ever entered the Capitol of the State of Illinois. Mr. Gregory long since abandoned railroading, and has for many years been a successful farmer. He resides five miles west of Springfield.