Cassia County ID Archives Biographies.....Gray, William R. 1865 - 
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Author: S. J. Clarke, Publisher

    WILLIAM R. GRAY makes his home at Oakley, from which point he supervises
important ranching and cattle raising interests in Boxelder county, Utah. He is
also identified with mining and financial affairs and is altogether regarded as
one of the representative business men of his section of the state. He was born
in Albany county, New York, December 4, 1865, and is a son of William R. and
Gertrude (Hilton) Gray. His boyhood days were passed in the Empire state and to
its educational system he is indebted for the opportunities which he had to
qualify for life's practical and responsible duties. He came to the west in
1886, when a young man of twenty-one years, and entered the employ of Sparks &
Tinnin in Elko county, Nevada. He worked as a cow puncher for four years and
then, seeing the opportunity for the attainment of success along those lines, he
took up land in Boxelder county, Utah, and to his holdings has added until he is
now the owner of four hundred and forty acres there. He first built a log house
and began the work of improving his ranch. From time to time he added other
buildings, secured the latest improved machinery to facilitate the work of the
fields and, specializing in cattle raising, converted his place into one of the
fine stock ranches of this section of the country. Upon it he has four hundred
head of white-faced cattle. He also raises horses and is an excellent judge of
live stock, so that he makes most judicious purchases and profitable sales. He
has also become interested in the Grape Creek mine, a silver and copper
producing property, and he is a director in the Oakley State Bank. 

    On the 28th of January, 1903, Mr. Gray was united in marriage to Miss Edith
Elison, a native of Utah and a daughter of Eric and Christina (Anderson) Elison.
They have become parents of three children: W. R., Kenneth L. and Russell E. 

    Following his marriage Mr. Gray removed to Oakley, where he built his
present home, and he also owns another residence property in the town. His
political endorsement is given to the republican party and fraternally he is a
Mason who has attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite and is also
a member of the Mystic Shrine. He loyally follows the teachings and purposes of
the craft and is in hearty sympathy with its beneficent spirit and its
recognition of the brotherhood of mankind. His business associates find him
thoroughly reliable as well as enterprising and his friends recognize in him a
man of the utmost stability of character — one who can be counted upon to do
what he says and who in all relations of life stands for progress and improvement.



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