VINTON LYNWOOD GREGORY, secretary-manager of Orangedale Groves, Inc., and owner of the V.L. Gregory building at 200-214 Orange street, is a Redlands boy, born on E. Lugonia avenue, Dec. 2, 1894, in the home recently occupied by the late Capt. A. G. Johnson. When he was four, the family moved to Los Angeles, where he spent his boyhood, received his early education and went to Manual Arts high school.<\/p>\n
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In 1912, he returned to Redlands and entered the Redlands Business college, then located in the Hubbard building, where he studied stenography and bookkeeping.\u00a0 His first job was with the Mutual Orange Distributors, as stenographer in the traffic department. In 1916 he became manager of the Marigold Dairy, holding that position for three years and leaving it, in 1919, to go to work for the Crafton-Mentone Heights Orange association at Crafton.\u00a0 In 1922, he became affiliated with the Redlands Orangedale Groves association, for which organization he is at present secretary and manager.<\/p>\n
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He was married, in 1917, to Edythe Mae Truslow, daughter of W.A. Truslow and a graduate of RHS in the class of 1913.\u00a0 Their children are Vinton, Jr., at present a member of the junior class at UCLA at Shirley a senior at RHS.<\/p>\n
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