I 'AVID. 



. ol ii[ni!i I)r. (liven li.v the rnivi-r.-iiy 

 mont, at Hiirliiigtoii. Ho was not only 

 ;,nl and lalnirioiis physician, Imt a m 



.ibility, liliend, pnhlic-spir- 

 ; to promote tlio 



Congregational 



. horn in Stoiieham, Mass., Nov. 15, 

 ; dud in AVestborough, Mass., April 7, 

 11.- :-tndied at Phillips Academy, Ando- 

 !.'!, L'raduated nt Yule College, in 1821, 

 h he taught two years in Amhcrst 

 i i in i;<>-ton, and then entered the 

 ^culinary, where he completed his 

 . Soon after he became an as- 

 vtary of the American Board of 

 ..i-Moners for Foreign Missions, and in 

 upon the death of Jeremiah Evarts, was 

 n corresponding secretary. During this 

 <!, liis special department of labor was 

 editing the 3Iisionary Herald, and correspond- 

 ence with the missions among the Indians, 

 which was then conducted on an extended 

 In 1828 he made a tour, extended 

 through fight months, and over nearly six 

 thousand miles; visiting the missions to the 

 Indian tribes, both east and west of the Mis- 

 i Iliver, in Northwest Ohio, and in New 

 Y'>rk. () n this tour he visited not less than 

 thin rations, and reached Boston, on 



his return, in July. 



In 1830 he removed with his family to Rox- 

 Imry, and though a distance of three miles 

 :he missionary rooms, was in the habit of 

 -ing it twice a day on foot. Ho was in- 

 defatigable in his labors, and among his other 



- prepared twelve of the " special reports " 

 of the society, many of them of great value. 

 At the solicitation of Mr. Lowell Mason, Mr. 



ie consented to aid in compiling the hymn- 

 . called "Church Psalmody." Of this 

 . more than a hundred and fifty thousand 



- are believed to have gone into use. 



In consequence of an injury by a railroad 



.eiit, he was obliged to decline a reelection, 



and resigned his position in 1848, removing to 



. Mass. His house having been not 



long after consumed by fire, he settled in 



Windsor, Vt., but in 1860 returned to West- 



boro', where he spent the residue of his days. 



The circumstances of his death were affecting. 



Men were blasting a rock near his house, and a 



nding fragment struck him on the head, 



inflicting a mortal injury. This was on Tues- 



aiid ho lay perfectly unconscious till Sat- 



u n lav, when ho died. 



t.KEGORY, Rear Admiral FRANCIS H., U. S. 

 N'aw, born at Norwalk, Conn., October 9, 

 1789 ; died in Brooklyn, L. I., October 4, 18C6. 

 At the age of eighteen ho entered the merchant 

 service, in which lie remained two years. In 

 1809 he enlisted in the United States navy as a 

 midshipman, and soon after, while serving on 

 i he Vesuvius, and in charge of one of her barges 

 the Balize, surprised and captured an Eng- 

 lish brig, having on board one hundred and 



GREGORY, FRANCIS H. 387 



intended to be smuggled into 

 New Orleans, which was carried in and con- 

 demni'd. In April, 1811, he was promoted to 

 :ing master, and assigned to tlio command 

 of pun-vessel No. 1G2, and attached to the 

 JIali/c division. He captured and sent in a 

 schooner of one hundred tons and thirty-five 

 men, then fitting out on the coast for piratical 

 purposes, and had anight action with a privateer 

 of greatly superior force, that had been annoy- 

 ing our commerce, which he disabled and drove 

 oft the coast. Soon after he captured a large 

 Spanish ship of fourteen guns, which was en- 

 f_ r aj:c'l in piracy. In the spring of 1812, Acting 

 Ma-ler Gregory was ordered to a northern 

 station, and on the commencement of a war 

 with England, placed under Commodore Cbaun- 

 cey's command on Lake Ontario, and with him 

 participated in all the actions and skirmishes 

 on that lake. Later he was taken prisoner by 

 the British, refused parole, and sent to Eng- 

 land, where he was detained until the close of 

 the war, in 1814. He soon after joined one of 

 the frigates cruising against the Algerines, 

 without coming home. In 1821, Lieutenant 

 Gregory was appointed to the command of the 

 schooner Grampus, and cruised in that vessel 

 throughout the West Indies and upon the Span- 

 ish Main, for the suppression of piracy and pro- 

 tection of American commerce, until relieved 

 in 1823. Ho was active and instrumental in the 

 destruction of several piratical vessels, and dis- 

 persion of gangs of pirates on the coasts of 

 Cuba and Mexico. In 1835 Lieutenant Greg- 

 ory was selected to fit out the frigate Brandy- 

 wine, for the purpose of conveying General 

 Lafayette to France, and served under Com- 

 modore Morris until the ship arrived there, 

 when he was placed under his command. In 

 1826 he fitted out a 64-gun ship at New York, 

 for the Greek Government, and sailed for the 

 Pi r ecus. 



In 1828 he was promoted to be commander 

 in the navy; was attached to the Brooklyn 

 Navy- Yard till 1831. when he was sent in com- 

 mand of the Falmouth to cruise in the Pacific, 

 and was one year in charge of that station; 

 performed a full cruise of three years, and re- 

 turned to the United States in 1834. He was 

 promoted to a captaincy in 1838, and appointed 

 to command the North Carolina, 74 guns, in 

 1841. In 1843 ho was placed on the Brazilian 

 station in the frigate Raritan; in 1844 was or- 

 dered to the coast of Mexico, and employed 

 in the blockade of that coast. At the com- 

 mencement of the war with that country 

 he returned to the United States, in the 

 frigate Cumberland, in January, 1847. In Sep- 

 tember, 1849, he was ordered to the command 

 of the squadron on the coast of Attica, in the 

 Portsmouth. In May, 1852, he was assignee 

 to the command of the Boston Navy-Yard, 

 and relieved in February, 1856, and up to 

 the, beginning of the war was employed on 

 temporary duties only. At tlio commence- 

 ment of the late war, Commodore Gregory 



