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GREGG, JOHN SPICER (1870-1961)

GREGG, JOHN SPICER, Methodist minister, Derby circuit, 1903-07, and Boiestown circuit, 1920-23; b. Mount Hebron, near Sussex, N.B., 24 Mar 1870, s/o Peter Gregg and Mary Spicer; m. Vesta Kilburn, of Kingsclear, N.B.; d. Fredericton, 8 Oct 1961.

J. Spicer Gregg was educated at Mount Allison Academy and University (BA 1894) and was ordained in 1895. During the next forty years he served as a Methodist and United Church minister in over a dozen rural New Brunswick communities. He was at Andover before being assigned to the Derby circuit in 1903, and when he left four years later he went to Young's Cove. He returned to the Miramichi in 1920 and gave three years to the Boiestown circuit. His last church was at Keswick, where he retired in 1935. He moved to Fredericton in 1937.

Gregg did a good deal of work with young people and was one of the first scoutmasters commissioned in New Brunswick. He also had numerous intellectual and artistic interests. His wife, Vesta Kilburn, died in 1950. When he died eleven years later, at age ninety-one, he left a son and two daughters. For a great many years his daughter Nan Gregg was the reference librarian at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton.

Sources

[b] census (Andover, N.B.) [d] Kings County Record 12 Oct 1961 / Cornish; Gregg family data; Johnson; Walkington


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