[1] Gregores Antones Perdicaris was born in Naousa, a city in the present Imathia regional unit of Macedonia, Greece.
[5] While Perdicaris was at Mount Pleasant he taught with Petros Mengous author of the book Narrative of a Greek Soldier in 1830.
Their students included John C. Zachos, Christophoros Plato Castanes, Alexandros Georgios Paspates, Constantine Fundulakes, and Christopher Evangeles.
Prominent future Harvard Professor Evangelinos Apostolides Sophocles lived in Hartford Connecticut during this period.
Some of the prominent locations he lectured included: the Franklin Institute, New York Mercantile Library, Washington D.C., and the Brooklyn Lyceum.
[10] American Poet Edgar Allan Poe enjoyed his lectures and featured two articles about them in the Southern Literary Messenger between 1836 and 1837.
Gregory became the first American Consul to Athens, Greece in October 1837, under the appointment of President Martin Van Buren.
Some of the countries included: Austria, Bavaria, Belgium, Denmark, Great Britain, Hanover, Netherlands, Papal Dominions, Portugal, Russia, Prussia, Saxony, Sardinia, Tuscany, Two Sicily’s, Sweden, and the United States.
Godey's Magazine published an article by Gregory Anthony Perdicaris in July 1841, entitled The Court of King Otho.
[18][19] Prominent Greek revolutionary Petrobey Mavromichalis was introduced to Unitarian Minister Charles Lowell of Massachusetts by his friend Perdicaris.
A notable part of the book describes a nun who had visions of an icon from the island of Dino just before Perdicaris arrived in Greece.
Other notable trustees included: William Lewis Dayton, Edward W. Scudder, Mayor Charles Burroughs, Samuel R. Gummeré’s father Barker Gummere.
The newspapers reported in November 1847, he lost the political race for New Jersey Assembly representing Mercer County.
[27] Xenophon J. Maynard, Joseph C. Potts, Perdicaris, and several others participated in the incorporation of the Trenton Gas Light Company on February 19, 1847.
That same year notable members of the Trenton community Peter Cooper, Abram Hewitt, and Perdicaris attended the New Jersey State Tariff Convention.
Perdicaris, Joseph C Potts, and Xenophon J. Maynard were on the Board of Directors of the Pacific Mutual Insurance Company.
Perdicaris ran a campaign for School Trustee that same year with Democratic Mayor William Napton.
He was secretary of the Camden & Amboy Rail Road and Transportation Company in 1856 and manager of the Trenton Water Works in 1858.
During the year 1859, Perdicaris incorporated the Trenton City Bridge Company with Thomas J Stryker, Barker Gummere, and several others.
In some instances they were part of incorporating the coal gas company, then they hired Perdicaris and Hoy to build the plants and infrastructure.
Eventually James Hoy's cousin John Patterson Kennedy became the coal gas plant engineer.
Kennedy & Hoy partnered with Cornelius Vanderbilt and his son to build the largest coal gas infrastructure in this countries history.
[35] The next year he enrolled at Harvard as a freshman, he also displayed his painting Cattle at the Thirty-Third Annual Exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
Gregory was crucial because he was a former diplomat and had ties to many different countries in Europe namely the King and Queen of Greece.
One year later, the confederacy confiscated 1351 shares of the Charleston Gas Light Company, worth close to one million dollars, adjusted for 2019 inflation.
[40] Ion Hanford Perdicaris according to his letter to Samuel R. Gummeré was instructed by his parents to obtain Greek citizenship to stop the sequestration.
Records indicate Ion submitted his paperwork twenty-three days before the South sequestered close to one million dollars worth of stocks.
He was very active in Trenton his duties included working at the waterworks and he was involved with the Delaware and Raritan Canal Company.
[43] By the year 1867, Perdicaris, Peter Cooper, Theodore Roosevelt Sr., and John C. Zachos all donated money for the Greek refugees of Crete to Samuel Gridley Howe.
In 1877, Gregory's son Ion freed a slave in Morocco with the help of the United States government.