John E. Ray Biography from History of Rockingham County, NH
From: Bill Prokasy - wprokasy@arches.uga.edu

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

Page 1181

   JOHN E. RAY, chairman of the Board of Selectmen of the town of
Londonderry , where he has resided for the last twenty years, was born in
Auburn, Rockingham County, N. H., in 1874, a son of James and Sarah
(Leavitt) Ray. His father, now deceased, was a brick and stone mason by
trade and was an old resident of this county.
   John, E. Ray was reared and educated in Manchester, N. H., where he
worked for some time in a shoe factory. Later he followed the same occu-
pation in Londonderry for a time, after which he engaged in the meat and
provision business, and still later in the cattle business, doing a wholesale
trade in the latter. In 1913 he sold out his meat and cattle business and
entered the employ of the Annis Grain & Lumber Company, with whom he
has since remained. He owns considerable real estate in Londonderry and
is regarded as one of the substantial and reliable citizens of the town. He
is now serving in his fifth year as chairman of the board of selectmen and
has shown efficiency in handling town affairs. Mr. Ray was married in July,
1894, to Miss Anna M. Stone, of Londonderry, a daughter of James G. and
Elizabeth R. (Hicks) Stone. They have three children-J. Harold, Mildred
E. and George C. The family are affiliated with the Baptist church.

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