Principal, Hampton Institute
Centurion, 1919–1946
Born 24 November 1875 in Hartford, Connecticut
Died 23 February 1946 in Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Buried Pittsfield Cemetery
, Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Proposed by Dickinson Sergeant Miller and Albert Bushnell Hart
Elected 7 June 1919 at age forty-three
Century Memorial
James Edgar Gregg. [Born] 1875. Clergyman, educator
Long a minister of the Congregational Church, President of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute for Negro students for eleven years, he was a man of corporate and institutional loyalties. Harvard, the Christian ministry, racial tolerance and the institutions that support it—these possessed his allegiance, and received his constant service. He was modest and friendly and what might have been an oppressive measure of goodness in him was relieved by a fine sense of the comic in human conduct.
He was proud of his membership in the Century and spoke often of his pleasure in its flavor—high praise from a man who was discriminating to the point of conservatism in both the objects and the expressions of his enthusiasm and interests. He was our friend for twenty-seven years.
Source: Henry Allen Moe Papers, Mss.B.M722. Reproduced by permission of American Philosophical Society Library & Museum, Philadelphia
Henry Allen Moe
Henry Allen Moe Papers, 1946 Memorials
