Bio of RAY, John H., Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical
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Vol II, pg 269-270
JOHN H. RAY
John H. Ray, who recently left Minneapolis to enter the legal department of the
American Telephone and Telegraph Company in New York, was one of the younger
lawyers of this city, practicing as a member of the firm of Shaw, Safford, Ray &
Shaw. He was born in Mankato, Minnesota, acquired his early education in the
public schools of that city and then took the academic course in the University
of Minnesota, from which he was graduated with the class of 1908. He next
entered the Harvard Law School and completed his studies there as a member of
the class of 1911. The same year he was admitted to the bar in Minnesota and
entered upon the active practice of his profession at Minneapolis, with the firm
of Koon, Whelan & Hempstead, becoming a member thereof in 1917. In the following
year he became assistant trust officer for the Wells-Dickey Trust Company, a
position which he left later in 1918 to enter the office of the judge advocate
general. After the armistice he spent six months as assistant special
representative of the secretary of war and carried special legal work for the
war department in Washington and Paris. When that work was finished Mr. Ray
returned to Minneapolis and in October, 1919, became one of the organizers of
the firm of Shaw, Safford, Ray & Shaw, in which he practiced until he assumed
his present position.
In 1912 Mr. Ray was united in marriage to Miss Hama T. Potter of Boston and they
have become parents of two children, Virginia and John H. (III). Mr. Ray is well
known in club circles, having belonged to the Minneapolis Athletic and
Minneapolis Golf clubs, the University Club of Chicago, the Northland Country
Club of Duluth, and also to the Beta Theta Pi, a college fraternity. He was also
identified with the Minneapolis Real Estate Board, the Manufacturers' Club and
the Civic and Commerce Association. He was a member of the State Board of Law
Examiners and thereafter a member of the State Teachers College Board. In
politics he is a republican and has been quite active in party work, serving as
chairman of the congressional campaign committee in 1918 and a member of the
republican state committee from 1918 to 1920, inclusive.