Pray, Lewis Glover
philanthropist, author, was born Aug. 15, 1793, in Quincy, Miss. He was a Boston philanthropist who published Child's First Book of Thought; History of Sunday-Schools; and The Sylphid's School, and Other Pieces in Verse. He died in 1882.
PRAY, PUBLIUS RUTILIUS RUFUS, lawyer, jurist, state legislator, author, was born in 1795 in Maine. He practiced law in Hancock county, Miss.; served in the legislature in 1828; and was president of the convention that adopted the revised constitution of 1832. In 1833 he was appointed by the legislature to revise the laws of the state, which work he completed after great labor. From 1837 till his death he was judge of the high court of errors and appeals. He published Revised Statutes of the State of Missouri. He died Jan. 11, 1840, in Pearlington, Miss.