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.
Throughout his government career and his subsequent retirement, Gregg pursued his hobby researching and collecting two-dimensional materials documenting the flour milling industry, primarily in Minneapolis, but also in many other places throughout Minnesota, Wisconsin, and North Dakota. He also pursued those interests as a longtime volunteer with the Minnesota Historical Society and the Richfield Historical Society. Prior to his death on December 8, 1987, Gregg willed his extensive milling research collection to the Minnesota Historical Society.
Don Gregg married his wife Mary Jane in 1947. They had three sons: John, Thomas, and Robert.
From the guide to the Flour milling research files., [185-]-[198-]., (Minnesota Historical Society)
