Solano County Biographies

EDWARD GRAY, M.D.

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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the third white child of American parentage born in Benicia, has been in the 
practice of medicine for the past twelve years, ten of them in Benicia.  His 
parents arrived in California in June, 1849, and he was born in November 
following.  His father, Samuel C., a native of Boston came at once to Benicia on 
his arrival in this State, and engaged in business with his brother-in-law, 
Chauncey Wetmore, and has been connected with the public interests of Solano 
County much of the time since.  The Doctor�s mother, nee Lucy W. Wetmore, was a 
native of Connecticut.
            At the age of fourteen years Dr. Gray went East and prepared for 
college at Middletown, Connecticut, and after three years� study there, he in 
1867 entered Yale College, where he graduated in 1871.  He then took an 
additional course of one year at the Scientific Department of Yale, after which 
he entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York city, -- which is 
the Medical Department of Columbia College, -- and graduated there in 1875, 
after the usual course of three years.  Next he served a year in the 
Presbyterian Hospital, on the house staff; he then attended clinics and studied 
specialties in the general hospital of Vienna, Austria.  In 1877 he returned to 
California, where he has since been continuously engaged in his chosen calling.  
For three years he was Assistant Surgeon at Fort Gaston, in Humboldt County, and 
since that time he has been a resident of Benicia.  He is a member of the State 
Medical Society and also of the Solano County Medical Society.
            He was married in 1876 to Miss Gertrude, daughter of Rev. H. M. 
Colton, of Middletown, Connecticut, and they have three children:  Henry C., 
born April 13, 1878; Samuel Herbert, June 29, 1879; Percival, March 8, 1883; one 
child, Theodore W., died in 1882, and Mrs. Gray died in July, 1884, at Fort 
Gaston.  In November, 1889, Dr. Gray married Miss Maria Willey, a native of 
California, and daughter of Rev. S. H. Willey, of Van Ness Seminary, San 
Francisco.
 
Memorial & Biographical History of Northern California, The Lewis Publishing 
Co., 1891, pp 503