Submitted by Sandi Gorin
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"Samuel Ray Dead. (Courier-Journal, March 27). Mr. Samuel Ray, prominent in
the tobacco trade of this city, died yesterday from the effedts of a second
attack of the grip at his home, 729 Fifth Street. He was a native of Monroe
county, Ky. In 1866 he came to this city and became a member of the tobacco
firm of Ray, White and Co. Messrs. Hare and White were the other members.
They established the Louisville Tobacco Warehouse. Mr. R. P. Hare, a son of
his former partner, and son-in-law of Mr. Ray, became associated with him
later in the establishment of the Falls City Warehouse. They were afterward
bought out by McLeod, Scott and Son. Mr. Ray retired for a short time, after
whaich he founded the Crescent Warehouse, in which he was interested at the
time of his death. He leaves a wife and four children, Mrs. R. P. Hare, Miss
Verda Ray, Samuel Ray, Jr., and Eugene H. Ray, the sons being in the tobacco
business."
 
Glasgow (KY) Weekly Times, 31 Mar 1897.
 
 
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