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Portrait of Mrs. Gregg, ca. between 1840 and 1870

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Portrait of Mrs. Gregg, ca. between 1840 and 1870

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Title	Portrait of Mrs. Gregg, ca. between 1840 and 1870
Personal name	Gregg, Mrs.--Portraits; Greig, Dorothy, b. ca. 1817--Portraits
Topical entry	Popular Culture Business Portraits, American--19th century Portraits--Tennessee--Nashville Bakers and bakeries--Tennessee--Nashville Businesspeople--Tennessee--Nashville Immigrants--Tennessee--Nashville
Geographic entry	Nashville (Tenn.)--History--Sources
Description	Mrs. Gregg, middle-aged, with dark hair and brown eyes. She is seated and is wearing a dark dress. Mr. and Mrs. Gregg came to Nashville, Tennessee, from Scotland and opened Gregg's Bakery, later Mitchell's, which operated for over a century in the original location on Union Street. Mr. Gregg is probably George Greig, a baker and confectioner born in Scotland and operating his business on Union Street in Nashville during the 1850s and 1860s. His family was enumerated twice during the 1860 census, and his wife's name is given as both Dorothy and Dorothea. Mrs. Greig was also born in Scotland. She and her family may have been in America as early as 1830 and probably first lived in New York before coming to Tennessee around 1850, as the 1860 census lists their children as born in New York. George Greig died after 1860 and before 26 Nov. 1867, the date his body was moved from his grave in the Nashville City Cemetery to one in Mt. Olivet Cemetery. Mrs. Greig probably died sometime after the 1870 census. Oil on canvas. Donated to the library by Mrs. J. Francis McCloud, granddaughter of the Greggs. The portrait is currently not on display. The library's portraits were photographed as part of the National Society of The Colonial Dames of America in Tennessee's Tennessee Portrait Project (http://www.tnportraits.org/index.htm).
Creator	Cooper, Washington Bogart, 1802-1889 (Artist)
Publisher	Special Collections Division of the Nashville Public Library, 615 Church Street, Nashville, Tennessee, 37219
Contributors	National Society of The Colonial Dames of America in Tennessee
Date	ca. between 1840 and 1870
Type	Still Image; Portraits; Paintings
Format	image/jpeg
Identifier	gregg-mrs-metro-lg
Relation	Nashville Room Portrait Collection
Coverage	1840-1849; 1850-1859; 1860-1869; 1870-1879
Rights	U.S. and international copyright laws protect this digital content, which is provided for educational purposes only and may not be downloaded, reproduced, or distributed for any other purpose without written permission. Please contact the Special Collections Division of the Nashville Public Library, 615 Church Street, Nashville, Tennessee, 37219. Telephone (615) 862-5782.
Location	Closed stacks