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Stephen Strong Gregory, the son of Jared and Charlotte (Camp) Gregory, of Connecticut ancestry, was born on November 16, 1849 in Unadilla, Otsego County, New York.
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Stephen Strong Gregory, the son of Jared and Charlotte (Camp) Gregory, of Connecticut ancestry, was born on November 16, 1849 in Unadilla, Otsego County, New York.
In 1858 his father, a lawyer of considerable capacity, moved to Madison, Wisconsin, and there the son was educated in the public schools and at the University of Wisconsin. Following his graduation in 1870 he spent a year in the law department of the University, taking his LL. B. degree in 1871.
On his admission to the Wisconsin bar in that year he opened an office in Madison and practised there for three years. Desiring a wider field, however, he gained admission to the Illinois bar, September 14, 1874, and established himself in Chicago, where he spent the remainder of his life.
When he moved to Chicago, though young, he had already acquired a reputation as an advocate, and in a short time he was recognized as one of the ablest members of the Illinois bar.
He did not confine himself to any particular branch of the law, but accepted retainers in all the courts, federal and state, and from the first exhibited outstanding qualities as a counsel. His intuitive appreciation of human nature enabled him to deal with witnesses in a masterly manner, his wide knowledge of legal principles and mastery of case law placed him in a class by himself as a trial lawyer, while his extreme accuracy of statement gained for him the confidence of all courts in which he appeared. In course of time Gregory was briefed in all the important local cases of his day.
He represented the city of Chicago in its heavy litigation over the Lake Front before the United States Supreme Court and appeared for the Sanitary District of Chicago in the suit which established its constitutionality. He was also retained in the “Chicago Traction Cases” the complexity of the details of which have probably never been surpassed. Although his practise was almost entirely confined to civil cases, on one occasion he appeared in criminal proceedings which attracted world-wide attention, namely, the Debs case arising out of the Pullman strike, where the accused were indicted for conspiracy to obstruct a mail train on the Rock Island Railroad.
It has been well said that his assistance was generally sought in cases of great public interest in which personal rights were assailed.
He occasionally contributed articles to the legal periodicals, one of which, “Some Reflections on the German Constitution, ” reprinted from the Virginia Law Review for March 1918, was published in pamphlet form. He took active part in legal organizations and served as president of the Chicago Bar Association, 1900, the Illinois State Bar Association, 1904, and the American Bar Association, 1911.
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He had no liking for public life and consistently declined to allow his name to be brought forward as a candidate for office, preferring to retain his freedom of thought and action. The only official position he ever occupied was that of election commissioner for the city of Chicago, which he held for two years. With this exception his life was spent in unremitting attention to his professional duties.
Genial, courteous, enjoying a joke and capable of perpetrating one, he was ever a friend of the younger element, particularly the junior members of the bar.
He was married, on November 25, 1880, to Janet M. Tappan of Madison, Wisconsin, who with two sons and a daughter survived him.
