[5] Gregory arranged European classical music for the banjo, which he and his trio would play.

[6] The European classical works that Gregory arranged for the banjo include Wagner's Grand March from Tannhauser, Listz's Rhapsodie Hongroise No.

His father Dudley S. Gregory, Jr. was the founder and president of the New Jersey Philharmonic Society, his mother an amateur singer.

[5][13][14] His father died in 1886, and in the mid-1880s) George went to Grafton, New Mexico to work on a cattle ranch and remained there for seven years.

[5] He was given a national introduction to readers of S. S. Stewart's Banjo and Guitar Journal in the August–September 1893 issue, including his first piece of published sheet music, L'Infata March.

[17] In January 1891, an advertisement appeared in the New York Clipper trade magazine, a banjo-playing challenge by George W. Gregory to anyone who wanted to contend for the "Championship of the World.

[7] The combination featured the banjo players, a former member of Carlo Curti's Spanish Students, Sig.

[21] By August 1893, the trio had performed for 10 weeks on Broadway as part of the musical A Trip to Chinatown.

However, Gregory's performing career did not last as long as Farland's, who was persistently advertised by the journal for many years.

[10] Farmer, who had been one of Gregory's students for about two years before joining him as a performance partner, broke off on his own, as did the pianist, Van Baar.

[15] Farmer continued to play, joining Vess Ossman in 1903 to record "Bill Bailey (Won't You Please Come Home)" and another tune in 1906, "St. Louis Tickle.

[4] Gregory's Practical Fingering method received repeated mention by readers who wrote to S. S.

[28][29] Stewart was able to sell reprints of the serial, and the method was sold as a unit due 60 cents.

[29] Gregory's identity as a musician was not as obvious by 1900, when he was working as a "manager," listed in the U.S. census with his wife and two children.

His father had wasted most of his inheritance, been separated from his wife, and at the end may have been insane, drinking and dying of liver carcinoma.