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JOSEPH CARL GREGG
Vol. 3 p. 1135

One of the active members of the present city government of Tulsa,
Joseph C. Gregg has been the leading factor in supplying that city
with wholesome and clean amusement, and at different times has been
proprietor of perhaps half a dozen theaters in the city. He is still
in the business, and one of the best known citizens of Tulsa.

Joseph Carl Gregg was born at Nashville, Washington County,
Illinois, April 24, 1881, a son of Park E. and Lou (ANDERSON) Gregg.
Both parents were born in Indiana and are still living, and all their
six children are alive, Joseph C. being the second in order of birth.
His father was for a number of years a contractor and builder at
Oakland City, Indiana, moving next to Nashville, Washington county,
Illinois, where he was in the grocery trade, and continued the
grocery business at Bolton, Missouri. He finally removed out to Los
Angeles, California, continued merchandising for a time, and in 1907
located at Guthrie, Oklahoma. After spending four years in that city
he returned to Los Angeles and is now living retired. He is a member
of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and in politics a democrat.

Joseph C. Gregg was educated in the public schools of Missouri and
Los Angeles, California. His first work for wages was driving a milk
wagon in Los Angles. In 1906 he came to Guthrie, Oklahoma, and for a
time was identified with the restaurant business. In 1907 he became
special agent for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Company at
Guthrie, and continued in the railway service until 1910. In that
year he took up the general theater and moving picture business at
Enid, and opened the Wonderland Theater, which he conducted for about
two years. Since then Mr. Gregg has been in Tulsa, and at different
times has opened the Wonderland, the Yale, the Palace, the Orpheum
and the Lyrie theaters. All these he has since sold except the Lyrie,
which he still manages.

In April, 1914, Mr. Gregg was elected city commissioner of finance
and revenue, and is giving much of his time and attention to this
department of the city's government. He is a democrat in politics,
affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, Tulsa Lodge No. 946,
B.P.O.E., and with the Loyal Order of Moose. In 1909 Mr. Gregg
married Cora COLEMAN. She was born in Marietta, Kansas. Their two
children are: Ralph and Margaret.

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