Ace Gregg
Ace Gregg, judge common pleas court, Washington, was born October 4, 1845, in Jefferson Township, and is a son of John F. and Mary J. Gregg, both natives of Ohio, who have a family of six children, three sons and three daughters.
Ace, the subject of our sketch, was married, in the year 1871, to Miss Amelia J. Jones, daughter of Reuben and Matilda Jones, of Bloomingburg. He is a member of Temple Lodge No. 227, I. O. O. F., Washington, and also a member of the Royal Arcanum. He received his education in the Normal School at Lebanon, and his law lectures at Ann Arbor, Michigan University. Read law at Washington, with Hon. M. J. Williams, and commenced practice in the year 1870, under the firm name of Gregg & Corcoran, until 1880. During his practice he was prosecuting attorney for six years. He was elected judge of the common pleas court in the fall of 1880, and went on the bench on the first Monday in November, 1880, where he now presides.
From R. S. Dills' History of Fayette County