Fred A. Gray, Jr. Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire 
From: Claudia Menzel - menzel99@gateway.net 

Surname: GRAY
Source:  History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
          by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1915

Page 798

   FRED A. GRAY, JR., head of the firm of F. A. Gray & Co., painters
and decorators, Portsmouth, N. H., was born in Portsmouth, New Hamp-
shire, July 30, 1879, one of the two children of George W. and Anna
(Cox) Gray. He was educated in the public schools and at business col- 
lege. He then learned the trade of painter and decorator, at which he
worked for some time as journeyman. In October, 1905, he established
his present business in which he has been very successful. In addition to
the ordinary lines of painting and decorating, he does sign painting, and
deals in wall papers, room mouldings and curtains, painters' supplies,
etc., carrying an ample stock of the finest lines of goods in the business.
As a workman he is acknowledged to be one of the most expert in his
business. Mr. Gray is the Democratic candidate for member of the
New Hampshire State Legislature, the election to take place in November,
1914. He is a member of the Masonic order and Odd Fellows, and belongs
to the Elks, lodge No.97, also to the Warwick Club, the Portsmouth Athletic
Club. He is a member of the Portsmouth Board of Trade and the Massa-
chusetts Painters' Association.
   Mr. Gray married Lillian M. Ward, a daughter of Asa Ward, of Kit-
tery, Me. His children are: Marion Ida Gray and Katharine Anna
Gray. Mr. Gray and family are members of the Universalist church.
They reside on Sagamore Avenue.

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