Plumas County Biographies

Rotheus A. Gray 

Transcribed by Craig Hahn, Dec. 2004 

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
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was born in Boston, Massachusetts, August 5, 1851. His father, Captain R. D. 
Gray, was one of the principal seafaring men of New England, and a descendent 
from old Puritan stock�Edward Gray of the Mayflower being his ancestral 
progenitor. Captain Gray married a Miss Maria Nolan, daughter of Captain Nolan, 
British army, and a native of Dublin, Ireland. The result of this marriage was 
one son, the subject of this sketch. R. A. Gray entered Yarmouth Academy, Maine, 
to fit for college, in 1860, and left the institution four years after. He came 
to California in 1864, and entered Santa Clara College the twenty third of 
October of the same year. He remained in the institution the regular four years 
required for a classical course, and having completed his bachelor studies, 
began his medical course in 1868. He returned to the east in 1869, and finished 
his medical education, graduating in 1872, taking the degree of M. D. The degree 
of A. B. was received by him in 1874, and of A. M. in 1877. The doctor served 
one year in the U. S. naval and civil marine service as assistant surgeon, being 
stationed at Portland, Maine. He moved to California in 1874, and is now surgeon 
in charge of all the important mines near Greenville. He was married in 1872 to 
Miss May Seabury, by whom he has two children: Asa White, born November 23, 
1873; and William Henry Moulton, born December 8, 1874. 
 
Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from 
1513 to 1850. � Fariss and Smith, San Francisco,  1882. p 323