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Author: E. O. Jameson (1886)

REV. GILBERT OTIS FAY, A. M., PH. D.

GILBERT OTIS FAY, (Gilbert, Otis, David, David, Jonathan,) son of Gilbert and
Clarissa (Walker) Fay, was born Nov. 8,1834, in Wadsworth, O. He pursued his
preparatory studies in the schools of Medway and in Phillips Academy, Andover,
Mass. He graduated in 1859 from Yale College, New Haven, Conn., and in 1862 from
the Theological Seminary, Andover, Mass. He was licensed to preach April, 1862,
by the Mendon Association. For four years next succeeding he was a teacher in
the Ohio Institution for Deaf-Mutes in Columbus, O. From 1866 to 1880 he was the
superintendent of the same institution. Since 1880 to the present time he has
been a professor in the American Asylum in Hartford, Conn. Besides his other
duties in these institutions he preached regularly to the deaf-mutes on the
Sabbath, during the whole period of his connection with them. He received the
literary degree of Ph. D. in 1880. Mr. Fay married, Aug. 25, 1863, Adelia
Caroline Allen, daughter of William and Caroline (Gibson) Allen. Mrs. Adelia C.
Fay died Jan. 11, 1867. Mr. Fay married, April 14, 1869, Mary Jane Jarvis,
daughter of Edwin and Lydia (Gross) Jarvis. The children were: Adelia Clara,
born Nov. 28, 1866; Elizabeth, born May 21, 1870; and Charles Jarvis, born Aug.
26, 1871. Dr. Fay was brought up in Medway, his father having died while he was
an infant, and is regarded and beloved as a son of this good old town.


Additional Comments:
THE BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF PROMINENT PERSONS,
AND
The Genealogical Records
OF
MANY EARLY AND OTHER FAMILIES
IN
MEDWAY, MASS. 1713-1886.
Illustrated
WITH NUMEROUS STEEL AND WOOD ENGRAVINGS.
BY
E. O. JAMESON,
THE AUTHOR OK "THE COGSWELLS IN AMERICA," "THE HISTORY OF MEDWAY, MASS." ETC.
MILLIS, MASS. 1886.

Copyright, 1886.
E. O. JAMESON, MILLIS, MASS.
All Rights Reserved.

J. A. & R. A. REID, PRINTERS, PROVIDENCE, R. I.


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