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Gray, James M – Graybill, William M

Gray, James M

clergyman, theologian, lecturer, was born in 1851, in New York city. For fifteen years he was rector of the First Reformed Episcopal church of Boston, Mass. He occupies the chair of lectures on the English Bible in the Reformed Episcopal seminary of Philadelphia. He is also the author of a series of lectures on How to Master the Bible.

Gray, John

soldier, was born Jan. 6, 1764, in Fairfax Courthouse, Va. He entered the continental army, and served throughout the entire war. He was reputed to be the last survivor of the American revolution. He died March 29, 1868, in Hiramsburg, Ohio.

Gray, John C

Congressman, was born in Southampton county, Va. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1820 to 1821 to fill a vacancy.

Gray, John Chipman

educator, lawyer, author, was born in 1839, in Massachusetts. He is a lawyer of Boston, and Royall professor of law at Harvard university since 1883. He is the author of Restraints on the Alienation of Property; Rule Against Perpetuities, and Select Cases.

Gray, John F

physician, was born in September, 1804, in Sherbourne, N. Y. He was the first physician in America who adopted homeopathy, or the medical system of Hahnemann.

Gray, Morris

lawyer, author, was born in 1856 in Massachusetts. He is a Boston lawyer, and the author of A Treatise on the Law of Communication by Telegraph.

Gray, Robert

discoverer, was born in 1755 in Tiverton, R. I. In 1791 he discovered the mouth of a great river to which he gave the name Columbia, after his own vessel. He died in 1806 in Charleston, S. C.

Gray, Solomon S

manufacturer, inventor, was born in 1820 in Bowdoinham, Maine. He devised Gray and Wood's planing machine. He was the inventor of the molded collar.

Gray, Truman

planter, merchant, state senator, was born April 5, 1854, in Wayne county, Miss. He received a thorough education and attended the Mississippi college at Clinton. He has been county superintendent of public instruction, and is now state senator from the second senatorial district of Mississippi.

He is a successful planter and merchant of Boyce, and takes an active part in the public affairs of his city, county and state.

Gray, William

merchant, state senator, lieutenant-governor, was born June 27, 1750, in Lynn, Mass. He removed to Boston, became a state senator, and in 1810 was elected lieutenant-governor. He died Nov. 4, 1825, in Boston, Mass.

Gray, William Crane

bishop of southern Florida, was born Sept. 6, 1836, in Lambertville, N. J. He founded a church school for girls in Bolivar, Tenn.; rebuilt St. James's church and built St.

Philip's chapel for colored people.

Graybill, William M

educator, college president, author, was born June 25, 1851, in Pincastle, Va. Since 1890 he has been president of the Rogersville Synodical college, Tenn. He is the author of Charts of History and Civil Government.