CLASS OF 1875
Frank Pierce MacGregor died in Wilmington, Del., October 24, suddenly, of arteriosclerosis. He had gone to Wilmington only three weeks before with his wife, intending to make his home there with their son.
He was the son of Lewis A. and Augusta W. (Blodgett) MacGregor, and was born in Londonderry, N. H., October 27, 1852. He prepared for college at Pinkerton Academy, Derry. His fraternity was Delta Kappa Epsilon.
For the first two years after graduation he was principal of Bradford (Vt.) Academy, and then for two years of Newport (Vt.)1 Academy. He had meanwhile studied law, and was admitted to the Vermont bar in September, 1878. For one year, 1879-80, he practiced at Barton, Vt., in partnership with W. W. Grout. He then resumed teaching, and was principal of grammar schools in Fitchburg, Lawrence, and Haverhill, Mass., to October, 1894. He was then for a time in business with a Boston firm.
While teaching in Haverhill he had done considerable newspaper work, having been an editorial writer on the Haverhill Daily Bulletin. In 1896 he went into newspaper business for himself, and purchased the HydePark Times, which paper he continued to publish until 1913. He was also interested in a Boston publishing house.
Mr. MacGregor was a Knight Templar, and had been president of the Dartmouth Association of Hyde Park.
January 30, 1884, he was married to Lucia, daughter of Courtland and Lydia (Clapp) Sanderson of Phillipston, Mass., who survives him, with a son, Frank S., a Technology graduate of 1907, and a daughter, Ruth, of Mt. Holyoke 1910.
