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GRAY, Francis Calley, antiquarian, was born in Salem. Mass., Sept. 19, 1790; son of William and Elizabeth (Chipman) Gray. He was grachiated from Harvard in 1809; studied law and was ad- mitted to the bar but did not follow the profession. He was private secretary to John Quincy Adams, 1809-14, and accompanied him on his mission to Russia; was a representative in the Mass;ichusetts legislatiu-e, 1822-24 and 1836; and was state sen- ator from Suffolk county in 1825, 1826, 1828, 1829, 1831 and 1843. He was also vice-president of the Prison-discipUne society, and was for several years chairman of the board of directors of the Massachusetts state prison. His spare time he devoted to antiquarian and historical research. On Jan. 29, 1818, he was elected a member of the Massachusetts historical society, and thereafter edited several voliunes of its published Collections. He was a member of the American academy of arts and sciences, and its corresponding secretary; was president of the Boston Athenasum; and a fel- low of Harvard, 1826-36. In 1841 Harvard con- ferred on him the honorary degree of LL. D. In his will he left to Harvard college a collection of rare engravings and §16,000 for the care of the collection, and §50,000 to establish a mu- seum of comparative zoology.the money bequests to be given at the option of his nephew William, who presented them to Harvard in 1858. Dr. Gray was a constant contributor to the JVorth Amer- ican Review and other periodicals; was a frequent speaker at public gatherings and published a nota- ble pamphlet. Prison Discipline in America (1848). He died in Boston, Mass., Dec. 29, 1856.

QRAY, George, senator, was born at New Castle. Del., May 4. 1840; son of Andrew Cald- well and Elizabeth (Scofield) Graj'; and grandson of Andrew and Re- becca (Rodgers)Gray. He was graduated at the College of New Jersey, Princeton, in 1859, and after study- ing law with his father spent a year in the Harvard law school, being admitted to practice in 1863. In 1879 he was appointed attorney -general of the state of Delaware by Governor Hall, and was reappointed in 1884 by Governor Stockley. He was a delegate to the Democratic national conventions at St. Louis in 1876, Cincinnati in 1880 and Chicago in 1884. He was elected to the U.S. senate to fill the vacancj' caused by the appointment of Tlioinas F. Bavard as secretary of state, and took his seat

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March 19, 1885. He was re-elected in 1887 and again in 1893. The College of New Jersey gave him the degree of LL.D. in 1889. In 1898" Presi- dent McKinley named Senator Gray as one of the commissioners to arrange terms of peace between the United States and Spain. At the close of his senatorial term, March 3, 1899, President McKinley appointed him circuit judge for the third judicial circiut of the United States.

QRAY, Qeorge Edward, engineer, was born in Verona, N.Y., Sept. 12, 1818; son of Joel and Betsey (Ressiguie) Gray. He attended the public school, took a course in engineering and was chief engineer of the New York Central railroad, 1853- 65. He then resigned, was consulting engineer of the Central Pacific railroad of California, 1865- 71; chief engineer of the Southern Pacific railroad of California, 1871-85; and chief engineer of the Southern Pacific of Arizona, and the Southern Pacific of New Mexico. He also supervised the location and construction of the Galveston, Har- risburg & San Antonio railroad in Texas. He was made a life member of the Institution of civil engineers of England, an honorary member of the American society of civil engineers, and a life member of the California academy of sciences. In 1887 he became a member of the board of trustees of Leland Stanford, Jr., university.

QRAY, Qeorge Zabriskie, clergyman, was born in New York city, July 14, 1838; sonof Jolin A. C. and Susan Maria (Zabriskie) Gray. He was graduated from the Universitj- of the city of New York in 1858; studied at the Virginia theologi- cal seminary, Alexandria, Va., 1858-61, and at the divinity school of the P.E. church, Philadel- phia, 1861-62. He was ordained deacon in 1803 and priest by Bishop Horatio Potter, Jan. 23, 1863; was minister in chai'ge of Christ church, Warwick, N.Y., and of St. Thomas's church, Vernon, N.J., 1861-62; rector of St. Paul's, Kin- derhook, N.Y., 1862-65; of Trinity, Bergen Point, N.J., 1865-76; and was dean of the Episcopal theological school, Cambridge, Mass., and pro- fessor of systematic divinity there, 1876-89. He held membership in the American Oriental soci- ety, the N.E. historic genealogical society and the American archteological society. In June, 1862, he was married to Kate, daughter of George Forrest of New York city. The degree of D.D. was given him by the University of the city of New York in 1876. He is the author of TTie Children's Crusade, an episode of the thirteenth century (1871); The Script^lral Doctrine of Itecog- nition in the World to Come (1875); Htisband and )yife (1885); and The Church's Certain Faith. He died at Sharon Springs, N.Y., Aug. 4, 1889.

QRAY, Henry Peters, painter, was born in New York city, June 23, 1S19. He attended the jHiblic schools in New York city, studied a year