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Caption: Book - History of the University (Nevins)
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GREGORY MADE REGENT 43 that office in the State Agricultural Society. As there had been a legislative understanding that the practicability of placing the engineering branch in Chicago should be canvassed, its location there was authorized on condition that no part of the University's existing funds should be used for its establishment or maintenance,—a condition which effectually quashed the ambitions of certain mechanicsf organizations in Chicago. Proceeding to the election of a Regent, the Board voted upon the names of Daniel Pinckney, of Ogle County, J. L. Pickard,1 of Chicago, and John M. Gregory, of Kalamazoo, Michigan. Prof. Turner had refused to let his name be used, fearing lest his purpose in his long advocacy of the institution be misconstrued. The balloting quickly resulted in the choice of Dr. Gregory. The man thus elected was popularly little known in Illinois, but he had spoken in Chicago, where he had impressed some Trustees with his alertness to the industrial movement, while he had a sound reputation in academic circles of the Middle West. He was net yet forty-five years old. Born in northern New York, he had been educated at Union College under Eliphalet Nott, and after studying law for several years, had entered, the Baptist ministry. Later he became the head of a classical school in Detroit; in 1856 he established the Michigan Journal of Education, which- he edited; and three years later he was elected State Superintendent of Public Instruction!!' After serving three terms, in 1864 he accepted the Presidency of KalaJosiah L. Pickard had a career of considerable importance in the educational history of the West, and possessed abilities that quite justified his candidacy for the Regency. He was at different times State Superintendent of Public Instruction in Wisconsin, superintendent of the Chicago schools, and President of the University of Iowa, which he capably served for nine years ending 1887. 1
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