GREGORY, Dudley Sandford, philanthropist, born in Reading, Connecticut, 5 February, 1800; died in Jersey City, New Jersey, 8 December 1874. He removed with his father to Albany, New York, in 1808, rose to the place of chief clerk in the canal department, then became identified with the legal lotteries carried on for the state, and in 1834 removed to Jersey City and became one of its best-known citizens. He aided in building up the City, was its first mayor, serving three terms, and held many other local offices, he was also elected to congress as a Whig, and served from 1847 till 1849. Mr. Gregory was at one time a director of sixteen different railroads. He was a bountiful giver to Churches of all denominations, and to public schools, City parks, and benevolent institutions. --His grandson, Eliot, artist, born in New York City, 13 October, 1854, entered Yale in 1871, but was not graduated. He studied art in Rome and Paris, under Carolus-Duran and Cabanel, and is the only American that has exhibited both painting and sculpture in the Paris salon. His pictures include "Soubrette" (1883) ; "Coquetterie" (1884) ; "Children," for which he received honorable mention in Paris; and portraits of General George W. Cullum (1880) ; his uncle, Admiral Baldwin (1882) ; Mrs. John Sherwood (1885); and Ada Rehan (1887).