Eugene Turenne Gregorie
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Eugene Gregorie
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| Born | October 12, 1908 Long Island, New York |
| Died | December 1, 2002 (aged 94) St. Augustine, Florida |
| Education | High school dropout |
| Occupation | yacht designer |
| Political party | Democrat |
Eugene Turenne Gregorie (also E. T. "Bob" Gregorie, Eugene T. "Bob" Gregorie; pronounced "GREG-ree"; 1908–2002) was an American yacht designer and automobile designer. Gregorie and Edsel Ford worked closely together to design many automobiles of the 1930s and 1940s. Although he was a high school dropout he became the head of Ford's automobile design department. He returned to yacht design after retirement.
Gregorie was born in Hempstead, Nassau, Long Island, New York, as Eugene T. Gregorie Jr. on October 12, 1908. Gregorie's parents were Eugene Turenne Gregorie and Alva Palmer Gregorie. Gregorie was the first-born son and was nicknamed 'Bob' to distinguish him from his father.
Gregorie's ancestors came from Scotland and immigrated to Virginia in the eighteenth century. His ancestors were merchants trading in slaves and products from the United Kingdom. Gregorie's father was a successful entrepreneur with investments in the . Gregorie's mother was an accomplished painter.
The 1925 New York State Census shows that when Gregorie was 17 years old he was still living in Long Island, New York, with his parents. After high School Gregorie attended private schools in Virginia for higher education. The 1940 U.S. Census shows that when he was 32 years old he resided in Grosse Ile Township, Michigan and in 1935 in Dearborn, Michigan.
Gregorie started his design career in 1926 at Elco Works, a New Jersey yacht-building company when he was a high school dropout. His supervisor at the company was William Fleming, chief architect. After working there for about a year he left that firm and went to work for Cox & Stevens, a yacht designing firm in downtown Manhattan. He worked for them until the fall of 1928.
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