Gregg, Donald N.

Donald Neal Gregg, a lifelong collector of documentation on the flour milling industry in Minneapolis and the Upper Midwest, was born December 21, 1914 in Sherwood, North Dakota. He moved to St. Paul with his family during his childhood, graduating in 1940 with a B.S. degree in forestry from the University of Minnesota. Gregg enlisted in the Army Air Force and served more than four years during the World War II period, leaving the military (in 1946?) as a technical sergeant.

Gregg went to work for the King Midas Feed Mills (Minneapolis) in 1946 as a clerk, and was promoted to assistant purchasing agent in 1951. He joined the Atkinson Milling Company (Minneapolis) in 1954 as wheat and production bookkeeper, remaining until 1962 when the company was sold. He then took a job as a real estate assistant with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Minneapolis, in which he was reponsble for researching federal land titles.

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