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Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
MacGregor, Peter G., 1816-1886
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- McGregor, Peter G., 1816-1886
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Description area
Dates of existence
1816-1886
History
Rev. Peter Gordon MacGregor was born in 1816 in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, the son of Rev. James Drummond MacGregor (1759-1830).
He was a Presbyterian clergyman. He began his ministry in Guysborough and continued in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He believed that social reform, especially literacy and education, could affect general improvement and bring individual success. He was the father of James Gordon MacGregor (1852-1913), a Canadian physicist.
In 1849, he married Caroline MacColl (1826–). He died in 1886, in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia.