Mr. and Mrs. Albert gregory, early settlers in Barber County, thought of
  pioneering as a goal and a dream. They were not just willing, but eager to
  leave the comfort and security of an established eastern society and travel
  west to help build and mold a frontier community.
     In December of 1884 Mr. Gregory journeyed by train from Burlington 
  Junction, Mo., to Attica, Kansas, then took the stagecoach to New Kiowa.
  This bustling little city already boasted 40 or 50 business buildings and
  homes. With his companion Mr. C.V.K. Woodworth, Mr. Gregory feasted on
  venison his first night in the new town, then went exploring. A visit to
  a saloon proved to be rather exciting, with liquor being served in defiance
  of Kansas prohibition and guns at hand on the poker tables.
     Mr. Gregory spent a week in Kiowa, "getting acquainted with the people
  and the ways of the far west." He purchased two business lots and a residence
  lot, contracted for the construction of a business building and a home, then
  went East to purchase stock for a hardware store. When he returned to New
  Kiowa in March, 1885, with his wife and daughter, the town had grown until
  it was almost unrecognizable. The sound of hammer and saw continued to be
  heard all day and far into the night as the building of the town progressed.
     A rough element in the frontier city kept things in an uproar for a few
  months, recklessly shooting out the gas lights and whooping it up in general.
  Mrs. Gregory refused to admit she was afraid; however, she felt safer living 
  in a back room of the hardware store than in the cottage built on North Sixth
  Street. After the town was incorporated and a marshal hired, life became more
  settled.
     Mr. Gregory and Mr. Woodworth were in partnership in the hardware store
  for several years, then Mr. Woodworth took Horace Grant as a partner and Mr.
  Gregory went into the dry goods business. His wife, Mary (Mame to her friends)
  was a milliner. By 1894 Mr. Gregory's business had been expanded to a general
  store.
     Most of New Kiowa's inhabitants were young people. For entertainment they
  held masquerade balls in the Campbell Opera House, and children and adults
  alike enjoyed the skating Chas. Rumsey's skating rink. The women organized
  an industrial league to raise money for worthwhile causes and held oyster
  suppers and ice cream socials. Their most enthusiastic patrons were the
  ranchmen who paid for the food with bills of large denomination, refusing
  to accept any change. One project of the League was a large handsewn American
  flag. Given to the GAR post in a public presentation, it was used on patriotic
  occasions for many years. The League eventually was absorbed by various church
  socities. Mrs. Gregory remarked that "Our husbands used to say jokingly that
  'my wife was charge of a restaurant these days,; so constantly were we helping
  financially with churches."
     The wild game in the Kiowa region was a source of joy to the newcomers.
  Early in the morning they went hunting for prairie chicken, ducks, and quail. 
  Hunters who ventured farther into the countryside found deer and wild turkey.
  Prairie dog towns were pelntiful, and wild flowers grew everywhere.
     Mr. Gregoy, in very poor health when he came to Kansas, expected to die a
  young man. After he sold his business, however, and began dealing in real
  estate and raising cattle, spending more time in the open, his health improved;
  he lived to be 93.
     The Gregory's daughter, Lena, married Harley Woodard, and they had two
  daughters, Alberta and Mary. After the deaths of their young parents, the
  girls were reared by Mr. and Mrs. Gregory. Alberta is a retired teacher and
  apartment house manager. Mary and her husband, Roscoe Lewis, have a daughter, 
  Mrs. J.W. (Mary Lynn) McGee, and two grandsons, Gregory and Christopher.
                 
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 203