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730 mittee of safety. In 1777 he was transferred to the board of war, of which he eventually became chairman, and on which he served until the close of the Revolution. He was the author of the fa- mous " Treason Resolutions " that were reported to the assembly by the committee of which he was chairman. After the Revolution he again repre- sented Philadelphia in the assembly, of which he was chosen speaker. In 178!J-'t)0 he was a member of the Constitutional convention of Pennsylvania.

GRAY, George, senator, b. in New Castle, Del., 4 May, 1840. He was graduated at Princeton in 1859, and, after studying law at Harvard, was ad- mitted to the bar in 1868. He first opened an office in New Castle, but in 1879 removed to Wilmington on being appointed attorney-general of Delaware, which office he filled until March, 1885. He was a delegate to the National Democratic conventions of 1870, 1880, and 1884, and was elected to the U. S. senate to fill the vacancy caused by the appoint- ment of Thomas F. Bayard as secretary of state. He took his seat on 19 March, 1885, and in January, 1887, was re-elected for a full term.

GRAY, George Edward, civil engineer, b. in Verona, N. Y., 13 Sept., 1818. He received his early education in the public schools, and studied civil engineering under Peletiah Rawson. In 1858 he was appointed chief engineer of the New York Central railroad, and held the office till 1865, when he resigned and was appointed consulting engineer of the Central Pacific railroad. He remained con- nected with this road until 1871, when he was ap- pointed chief engineer of the Southern Pacific railroad of California, but resigned when that road was leased to the Southern Pacific company in 1885. Mr. Gray has also been chief engineer of the Southern Pacific railroad of Arizona, of the Southern Pacific railroad of New Mexico, and di- rected the location and construction of the Galves- ton, Harrisburg, and San Antonio railroad from El Paso to San Antonio, Texas. He is a life mem- ber of the British institute of civil engineers, a member of the American society of civil engineers, and a life member of the California academy of sciences, and president of its boai'd of directors. Mr. Gray has been appointed (1887) one of the trustees of the university in California founded by Leland Stanford in memory of his son.

GRAY, George Zabriskie, clergyman, b. in New York city, 14 July, 1838 ; d. in Sharon Springs, N. Y., 5 Aug., 1889. He was graduated at the Uni- versity of New York in 1858. From 1859 till 1861 he studied for the ministry at the Alexandria semi- nary. He was ordered deacon by Bishop Horatio Potter, 22 April, 1862, and ordained priest by the same bishop on 22 Jan., 1863. After holding pas- torates in Vernon, N. J., Kinderhook, N. Y., and Bergen Point, N. J., he was appointed, in 1876, dean of the Protestant Episcopal theological school in Cambridge, Mass. The University of New York gave him" the degree of D. D. in 1876. He published " The Children's Crusade in the Thirteenth Cent- ury " (Boston, 1872) ; " Recognition in the World to Come " (New York, 1875) ; and " Husband and Wife, or the Theory of Marriage " (Boston, 1885). — Hi^ brother, Albert Zabriskie, clergyman, b. in New York city, 2 Mai-ch, 1840 ; d. in Chicago, 111., 16 Feb., 1889. He was graduated at the Uni- versity of New York in 1860, and at the Gen- eral theological seminary of the Protestant Epis- copal church in 1864. During the civil war he served as chaplain of the 4th Massachusetts cav- alry. After holding various pastorates, he was elected warden of Racine college, Wis., in 1882. and he was associated with the work of church reform and reunion in Europe undertaken by the Prot- estant Episcopal church, and was a delegate to the general convention in 1886. His publications are " The Land and the Life, or Sketches and Studies in Palestine " (New York, 1876) ; " Mexico as it Is" (1878) ; " Words of the Cross " (1880) ; and " Jesus Only, and Other Sacred Songs " (1882).

GRAY, Henry Peters, artist, b. in New York city, 28 June, 1819; d. there, 12 Nov., 1877. He entered the studio of Daniel Huntington in 1838, and in the following year went to Europe for study. In 1843 he returned to New York and executed several genre and historical paintings. He made a second trip to Europe in 1846, where he produced several of his most characteristic works, including " Cupid begging his Arrows," " Proserpine and Bacchus," and '• Teaching a C'hild to Pray." He then estal)lished himself in New York, and was elected, in 1869, president of the National academy, which place he held until 1871, when he went to Florence, and remained there till 1874. Classical subjects were his favorites, and he was fond of studying the old Venetian masters, especially Ti- tian. During the latter years of his life he devoted his time to the painting of portraits, of which he left more than 250. Among his works are " Wages of War " ; " Hagar and the Angel " ; " Cleopatra " ; " Charity " ; " St. Christopher " ; "I Fiore di Fiesole " ; " Portia and Bassanio " ; " Genevieve " ; " The Model from Cadore " : " The Immortality of the Soul"; '-The Birth of Our Flag"; "Greek Lovers " ; " Twilight Musings " ; " Normandy Girl " ; an illustration of Irving's '• Pride of the Village " ; and the " Ajiple of Discord," for which he was com- mended at the Philadelphia centennial exhibition.

GRAY, Isaac Pusey, governor of Indiana, b. in Chester county, Pa., 18 Oct., 1828 ; d. in city of Mex- ico, 14 Feb., 1895, being American minister there. He went to New Madison, Ohio, and in 1855 he removed to Union City, Ind., where he engaged in business for three years. At this time he began to practise law, which he had studied at an early age. He served in the civil war as colonel of the 4th Indiana cavalry, but was compelled to retire, owing to feeble health. Subsequently he recruited the 147th Indiana infantry. He was at first a Whig, and then a Republican, but after 1871 he acted with the Democratic party. In 1868 he was elected to the state senate, and served four years. He was a delegate to the Liberal Republican convention in 1872, and was elected lieutenant-governor on the Democratic ticket in 1876 and governor in 1884. In 1893 he was appointed minister to Mexico.

GRAY, James, clergyman, b. in Ireland, 25 Dec, 1770 ; d. in Gettysburg, Pa., 20 Sept., 1824. He was graduated at the University of Glasgow in 1793, studied theology, and was licensed to preach by the presbytery of Monaghan. He came to the United States in 1797, and, after laboring in Washington, N. Y., until 1803, he became pastor of an Associate Reformed church in Philadelphia. He was active in establishing the theological seminary of that denomination in New York city, assisted in the organization of the Philadelphia Bible society in 1808, and was for some time its corresponding secretary. In connection with Dr. S. B. Wylie he opened at this time a classical academy, but retired after several years and went to Baltimore, Md., where he devoted himself to the study of special subjects in theology. For one year he edited the "Theological Review." He published "Mediatorial Reign of the Son of God"; "Dissertation on the Priesthood of Jesus Christ and Melchisedec, together with the Life of Christ " (Hagerstown, Md., 1850) ; and sermons.