Gray, Edgar Harkness – Grayson, William
Gray, Edgar Harkness
clergyman, was born Nov. 28, 1815, in Bridgeport, Vt. After the beginning of the thirty-ninth congress he was elected chaplain of the United States senate, and continued in that office four years. He was one of the four clergymen who officiated at the funeral services of President Lincoln in Washington.
Gray, Edward
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1799 to 1813.
Gray, Elisha
electrician, inventor, author, was born Aug. 2, 1833, in Barnesville, Ohio. He is an electrician and inventor who has published Experimental Researches in Electric Harmonic Telegraphy.
Gray, Francis Calley
lawyer, author, was born Sept. 19, 1790, in Salem, Mass. He was a Boston lawyer prominent as an enlightened patron of arts and education who published a work on Prison Discipline. He died Dec. 29, 1856, in Boston, Mass.
Gray, George
was born Oct. 26, 1725, in Philadelphia, Pa. He took an active interest in the affairs of the colony, and served in the assembly as delegate from Philadelphia from 1772 until 1775. He died in 1800 in Whitby hall, near Philadelphia, Pa.
Gray, George
lawyer, United States senator, was born May 4, 1840, in New Castle, Del. He was appointed attorneygeneral of the state of Delaware in 1879, and reappointed in 1884. He was elected to the United States senate to fill a vacancy and took his seat March 19, 1885, and was re-elected in 1887 and in 1893, his term of service expiring in 1899.
Gray, George Edward
civil engineer, was born Sept. 12, 1818, in Verona, N. Y. He has been chief engineer of the Southern Pacific railroad of Arizona, of the Southern Pacific railroad of New Mexico, and directed the location and construction of the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio railroad from El Paso to San Antonio, Texas.
Gray, George Seaman
business man, clergyman, author, was born in 1835 in New York. He was a presbyterian clergyman who, after retiring from the ministry, engaged in business in Cincinnati. He was the author of Eight Etudies of the Lord's Day. He died in 1885.
Gray, George Zabriskie
educator, clergyman, author, was born July 14, 1838, in New York city. He was an episcopal clergyman of Cambridge, dean of the Theological school, 1876-89, and prominent among broad church thinkers.
He was the author of The Scripture Doctrine of Recognition; The Children's Crusade: An Episode of the Thirteenth Century; Husband and Wife; and The Church's Certain Faith. He died Aug. 5, 1889, in Sharon Springs, N. Y.
Gray, Giles H
lawyer, legislator, was born May 16, 1834, in New York city.
He attended the free college of the city of New York; was one of its first graduates, and has received the degrees of A. B. and A. M. from that college. He is a successful lawyer, and practices in all the courts of California. He has been a member of the city council of San Francisco; a member of the board of education of that city, and also of Oakland. He has served with distinction as a member of the California state legislature, and has been United States surveyor of customs for the port of San Francisco.
Gray, Henry Peters
artist, was born June 23, 1819, in New York city.
Cleopatra; Charity; The Birth of Our Flag; and Twilight Musings. He died Nov. 12, 1877, in New York city.
Gray, Hiram
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born April 10, 1802, in Salem, N. Y. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1837 to 1839; in 1846 was judge of the sixth judicial district, and in 1847 one of the justices of the supreme court, serving in that capacity until 1860.
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Gray, Horace
associate justice of the supreme court of the United States, was born March 24, 1828, in Boston, Mass. graduated Harvard college in the class of 1845 and from the Harvard Law school in 1849. He was admitted to the bar in 1851, and was appointed reporter of the supreme judicial court of Massachusetts in 1854 and held the position until 1861. He was appointed associate justice of the supreme judicial court of Massachusetts in 1864, and chief justice of that court in 1873; and was commissioned an associate justice of the supreme court of the United States in 1881.
Gray, Isaac Pusey
soldier, lawyer, state senator, governor, was born Oct. 18, 1828, in Chester county, Va. In 1862 he was appointed colonel of the fourth Indiana cavalry, and in 1864 raised the one hundred and forty-seventh regiment of Indiana infantry. In 1868 he was elected a state senator. In 1876 he was elected lieutenant-governor of Indiana; became governor on the death of Governor James D. Williams; and in 1884 was elected governor of Indiana for the term of four years.
Gray, James
clergyman, author, was born Dec. 25, 1770, in Ireland. He published Mediatorial Reign of the Son of God; Dissertation on the Priesthood of Jesus Christ and Melchisedec, together with the Life of Christ; and sermons. He died Sept. 20, 1824, in Gettysburg, Pa.
Gray, James J
lawyer, was born Nov. 23, 1861, in Chicago, Ill. He received a thorough education and graduated from the Kent College of Law. He has been deputy probate clerk and circuit court clerk in the city of Chicago, where he has attained prominence as one of its leading lawyers.
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.
Graydon, Alexander
author, was born April 10, 1752, in Bristol, Pa. He was a citizen of Harrisburg who published Memoirs of a Life Passed Chiefly in Pennsylvania within the last Sixty Years, a lively, entertaining autobiography. He died May 2, 1818, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Graydon, William
lawyer, author, was born Sept. 4, 1759, near Bristol, Pa.
He was a lawyer of Harrisburg, and the author of Digest of the Laws of the United States; Justice and Constable's Assistant; and Forms of Conveyancing. He died Oct. 13, 1840, in Harrisburg, Pa.
Grayson, William
soldier, United States senator, was born in Prince William county, Va. He was appointed aidede-camp to General Washington in 1776; colonel of a Virginia regiment in 1777, and commissioner of the board of war in 1780 and 1781. He was a delegate to the continental congress from 1784 to 1787; member of the Virginia convention to consider the federal constitution in 1788, and in 1789 and 1790 was United States senator from Virginia. He died March 12, 1790, at Dumfries, Va.
Grayson, William
state legislator, governor, was born in 1786 in Maryland.
He was a planter; served in both branches of the state legislature, and took an active part in the successful struggle to obtain a new state constitution in 1838. He was governor of Maryland from 1838 to 1841.
He died July 9, 1868, in Queen Anne county, Md. !