Solano-Humboldt County CA Archives Biographies.....Gray, Edward 1816 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

EDWARD GRAY, M. D., the third white child of American parentage born in Benicia,
has been in the practice of medicine for the past twelve years, ten of them in
Benicia. His parents arrived in California in June, 1849, and he was born in
November following. His father, Samuel C., a native of Boston, came at once to
Benicia on his arrival in this State, and engaged in business with his
brother-in-law, Chauncey Wetmore, and has bean connected with the public
interests of Solano County much of the time since. The Doctor's mother, nee Lucy
W. Wetmore, was a native of Connecticut.

  At the age of fourteen years Dr Gray went East and prepared for college at
Middletown, Connecticut, and after three years' study there, he in 1867 entered
Yale College, where he graduated in 1871. He then took an additional course of
one year at the Scientific Department of Yale, after which he entered the
College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York city,— which is the Medical
Department of Columbia College,—and graduated there in 1875, after the usual
course of three years. Next he served a year in the Presbyterian Hospital, on
the house staff; he then attended clinics and studied specialties in the general
hospital of Vienna, Austria. In 1877 he returned to California, where he has
since been continuously engaged in his chosen calling. For three years he was
Assistant Surgeon at Fort Gaston, in Humboldt County, and since that time he has
been a resident of Benicia. He is a member of the State Medical Society and also
of the Solano County Medical Society.

  He was married in 1876 to Miss Gertrude, daughter of Rev. H. M. Colton, of
Middletown, Connecticut, and they have three children: Henry C., born April
13,1878; Samuel Herbert, June 29, 1879; Percival, March 8, 1883; one child,
Theodore W., died in 1882, and Mrs. Gray died in July, 1884, at Fort Gaston. In
November, 1889, Dr. Gray married Miss Maria Willey, a native of California, and
daughter of Rev. S. H. Willey, of Van Ness Seminary, San Francisco.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from

Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California.

Illustrated, Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast
from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with
Glimpses of its Prospective Future; Full-Page Steel Portraits of its most
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers and also of
Prominent Citizens of To-day.

"A people that takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendents." – Macauley.

CHICAGO
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1891.


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