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226 Dr. Ida Gray, a practical as well as a scientific dentist, was born in Clarksville, Tenn., March, 1867.

Her parents subsequently moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where this very excellent young lady has since lived and where she now has an office and is regarded as a first-class dentist. She serves a large number of the best colored and white citizens of her city. So far as we are able to find out Miss Gray is the only female Afro-American dentist at the time of this writing. Her example is indeed one of great importance to our young women, who may take notice and find 2. field that is not only useful and already ripe for the harvest, but in which they, as laborers, may reap a rich and an abundant crop.

Ringwood’s Afro-American Journal of Fashion, July, 1892, makes the following very pleasant statement concerning this professional lady: