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GRAY, John Clinton, jurist, was born iu New York city, Dec. 4, 1S43; son of John A. C. and Susan Maria (Zabriskie) Gray. He was a stu- dent at the University of Berlin, 1860-61; was graduated at the University of the city of New York, A.B. 1865, A.M., 1868: and at Harvard law school in 1866. He was a lawyer in New York city, 1866-88, and the senior a.ssociate judge of the court of appeals of the state of New York, 1888-1903. He was made a fellow of the National academy of design; of the Metropolitan museum of art and of the Museum of natural history. New York city, and a member of the New York his- torical society and of the New York bar associa- tion.

GRAY, John Perdue, alienist, was born in Half moon. Centre county, Pa., Avig. 6, 182.5. He was graduated at DickiiLson college in arts in 1846 and at the University of Pennsylvania in medi- cine in 1848. He was assistant physician to the New Y''ork state lunatic asylum in Utica, 1851-53; acting superintendent, 1853; medical .superin- tendent of the Michigan state asylum for the insane, Kalamazoo, 1853-54, diiring which time he designed the plans for the building; and medical superintendent of the asylum at Utica, N.Y., 18.54-86. He was consulting manager of the state asylum for insane criminals at Auburn state prison, 1858-86, and acted as commissioner and adviser in establishing other asylums in the state. He was a member of the State medical society, served for a term as its president, and in 1870 was president of the psj'chological section of the International medical congress that met in Philadelphia, Pa., where he read a paper on " Mental Hygiene." He was professor of psy- chological medicine and jurisprudence in Beile- vue hospital medical college, 1874-83 and in the Albany medical college, 1876-82. He was an ex- pert authority on insanity and on medical ques- tions relating to life insurance. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Hamilton in 1874. He edited the American Journal of Inaayi- ity, 18o4r-S2, and his public addresses include Homicide in Insanity (1857); TTiouf/hts on the Caus- ation of Insanity (1874); Mental Hyrjiene (1876); Abstract of the Laws of New York Jielatire to In- sanity (1878); Heredity (1884) and Insanity and Some of its Preventable Canses (1885) and these lectures were afterward published by his widow. He was shot by a lunatic, March 16, 1882, and never fully recovered from the wound. He died in Utica, N.Y., Nov 29, 18.86

GRAY, William Crane, first missionary bishop of southern Florida and 164th In succession in the American episcopate, was born in Lambertville, N.J., Sept. 6, 1835; son of Joseph and H;innah Price (Crane) Gray; gran<lson of Joseph and Elizabeth Gray, and of Isaac Watts and Anna

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Maria Crane, and a descendant of Jasper Crane, who came from England and settled iii New Haven, Conn., in 1637. He was graduated from Kenyon college in 18.59; ordained dea- con, 1859; priest, 1860, and was rector of St. James's church in Bolivar, Tenn., 1860- 81, and of the Church of the Advent, Nash- ville, Tenn., 1881-93. He was consecrated first missionary

bishop of southern Florida, Dec. 29, 1892. by Bishops Quin- tard, Dudley, Weed, Nelson and Hale. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Kenyon college in 1881 and also from the University of the South in 1893.

GRAY, William Cunningham, editor, was born in Butler county, Ohio, Oct. 17, 1830; son of Jonatlian and Mary (Woods) Gray; grandson of Robert Gray, a soldier in the American Revo- lution, and Mary Gray of the English Grays; and of Scotch-Irish descent. He was graduated from Belmont college in 1849 and was admitted to the bar in 1852, b\it never practised. He was the edi- tor of the Miami Democrat in 1851, and of the iScott Battery for the campaign of 1852. He estab- lished the Tribune at Tiffin, Oliio, in 1853, and was an editorial writer on the Cleveland Herald. 1862- 63, and editor of the Nereark American, 1863-71. He became editor of The Interior, a religious paper. In 1871. He I'eceived the degree of Ph.D. from the University of Wooster, Ohio, in 1874, and the degree of LL.D. from Knox college, Illinois, in 1896. He is the autlior of Cainpjire Musings (1894) , Dreams Without .S/cpp. and of many magazine articles. Ho died in Oak Park, IU.,Sept. 28, 1901.

GRAYDON, James Weir, inventor, was born in Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 18, 1849; son of Alex- ander and Jane C. (McKinny) Graydon; grand- son of Alexander Graydon, and a descendant of Captain Graydon, who served on Genera! Wash- ington's staff in the war of the Revolution and who wrote a history of that war, entitled " Gray- don's Memoirs." James served in the volunteer army in the civil war. 1861-65, in the 7th Indiana cavalry. While on the battle-field he was ap- pointed midsliipman from Indiana in 1865 and was graduated from the U.S. naval academy in 1869. He served on several stations and was promoted ensign, ma.ster and lieutenant He resigned his commission in 1886 to operate his torpedoes in China. He invented the Graydon