Dr. Jack Smith Gregg
1885-1948
Source: Centennial History of Arkansas - Vol 2&3 1922
Dr. Jack S. Gregg, a physician, practicing in Fort Smith, was born in West Alexandria, Ohio. in 1885. his parents being
William and Katherine (Smith) Gregg. The father was a soldier in the Union army in the Civil war. The family home was
maintained in the Buckeye state through the period of Dr. Gregg's boyhood and youth and in the acquirement of his education he attended
the Miami University at Oxford, Ohio, from which he was graduated with the class of 1904 on the completion of a course in pharmacy. Later he took
up the study of medicine, his attention being directed thereto through his pharmaceutical work and he became a student in the Miami Medical School,
a department of the University of Cincinnati, which conferred upon him the M. D. degree in 1908. He was afterward graduated from the Eclectic
Medical College with the class of 1910 and entered upon the active practice of his profession in Thomas, West Virginia, where he remained
from 1911 until 1912.
In the year 1913 he removed to Pine Bluff, Arkansas, where he opened an office and devoted-his attention to practice until 1919.
On the 15th of May of the latter year he arrived in Fort Smith, where he has remained, giving his attention to general practice, although
specializing to a considerable extent on diseases of women and children. He has thoroughly informed himself concerning this branch of the
profession and his efficiency has constantly been augmented by his study and experience. That he has accomplished excellent results is shown
by the large practice now accorded him.
Dr. Gregg was married in 1913 to Miss Bessie Robertson and they have many friends in Fort Smith, being most widely and favorably
known in the city. The doctor is a Mason, who has attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite and is also a Mystic Shriner. He belongs
likewise to the Fraternal Order of Eagles and to the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, while along strictly professional lines his connection
is with the Sebastian County and Arkansas State Medical Societies. He never lightly regards the duties of his profession but is most conscientious
in the performance of every task that devolves upon him and is keenly interested in everything that tends to bring to man the key to the complex
mystery which we call life.
Dr. Gregg died 21 Mar 1948
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