Washington Co., AR - Biographies - Clifton Sidney Gray *********************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: The Goodspeed Publishing Co Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgenwebarchives.org *********************************************** Clifton Sidney Gray, M. D., and one of the prominent practitioners of Fayetteville and vicinity, is a native of Missouri, born near Sedalia January 2, 1850, being the son of Hon. Hampton P. Gray, and grandson of John Gray, who was a native Virginian, and who made a settlement in the then Territory of Missouri, and was a planter by occupation. He was an active and useful citizen in the gradual development of his locality, and amassed considerable wealth. Hon. Hampton P. Gray was an attorney by profession and a native of Missouri, born in that State while it was yet a Territory. He was married to Miss Amanda Snell, daughter of John Snell, a planter and farmer near Sedalia, and a native of England, who made a settlement there in early times. Dr. Clifton S. Gray was reared in Columbia, Mo., whither his father had removed, supplementing his public school training with a thorough literary and classical course at the University of Missouri, at Columbia. At the end of four years and when in his seventeenth year he graduated from this institution. After graduating he began the study of his profession under the preceptorship of Dr. Norwood, of the chair of chemistry and physics in the University of Missouri, but afterward spent two academic years in the University of Louisville, Ky., and one year at the St. Louis Medical College, graduating from that institution in the class of 1871 and 1872. He did not enter into any regular practice on account of ill health, and came to Washington County, Ark., in 1876, to try a change of climate. He was greatly benefited by the change, and soon engaged in the active practice of his profession, which was only disturbed by trips through Utah and Colorado for his health, and one year spent in Bellevue Hospital Medical College in New York. He was married in Little Rock, Ark., to Miss Fannie A. Ashley, a graduate of Mrs. Cuthburt's Female School, of St. Louis, and daughter of William Ashley, who is a son of Senator Chester Ashley, of the United States Senate. Dr. Gray is a member of the American Medical Association and of the Arkansas State Medical Society, serving as the honored vice-president of the latter society. He has made some few contributions to literary journals of his profession, and is considered one of the intelligent and prominent citizens of his county. He is a member of the I. O. O. F. and K. P. societies, and he and Mrs. Gray worship at the Presbyterian Church. Mrs. Gray is a member of the Ladies' Aid Society of that church, and is active in general church work.