mittee of safety. In 1777 he was transferred to the board of war, of which he eventually became chairman, and on which he served until the close of the Revolution. He was the author of the fa- mous " Treason Resolutions " that were reported to the assembly by the committee of which he was chairman. After the Revolution he again repre- sented Philadelphia in the assembly, of which he was chosen speaker. In 178!J-'t)0 he was a member of the Constitutional convention of Pennsylvania.
GRAY, George, senator, b. in New Castle, Del.,
4 May, 1840. He was graduated at Princeton in
1859, and, after studying law at Harvard, was ad-
mitted to the bar in 1868. He first opened an office
in New Castle, but in 1879 removed to Wilmington
on being appointed attorney-general of Delaware,
which office he filled until March, 1885. He was a
delegate to the National Democratic conventions of
1870, 1880, and 1884, and was elected to the U. S.
senate to fill the vacancy caused by the appoint-
ment of Thomas F. Bayard as secretary of state.
He took his seat on 19 March, 1885, and in January,
1887, was re-elected for a full term.
GRAY, George Edward, civil engineer, b. in
Verona, N. Y., 13 Sept., 1818. He received his
early education in the public schools, and studied
civil engineering under Peletiah Rawson. In 1858
he was appointed chief engineer of the New York
Central railroad, and held the office till 1865, when
he resigned and was appointed consulting engineer
of the Central Pacific railroad. He remained con-
nected with this road until 1871, when he was ap-
pointed chief engineer of the Southern Pacific
railroad of California, but resigned when that road
was leased to the Southern Pacific company in
1885. Mr. Gray has also been chief engineer of
the Southern Pacific railroad of Arizona, of the
Southern Pacific railroad of New Mexico, and di-
rected the location and construction of the Galves-
ton, Harrisburg, and San Antonio railroad from
El Paso to San Antonio, Texas. He is a life mem-
ber of the British institute of civil engineers, a
member of the American society of civil engineers,
and a life member of the California academy of
sciences, and president of its boai'd of directors.
Mr. Gray has been appointed (1887) one of the
trustees of the university in California founded by
Leland Stanford in memory of his son.
GRAY, George Zabriskie, clergyman, b. in
New York city, 14 July, 1838 ; d. in Sharon Springs,
N. Y., 5 Aug., 1889. He was graduated at the Uni-
versity of New York in 1858. From 1859 till 1861
he studied for the ministry at the Alexandria semi-
nary. He was ordered deacon by Bishop Horatio
Potter, 22 April, 1862, and ordained priest by the
same bishop on 22 Jan., 1863. After holding pas-
torates in Vernon, N. J., Kinderhook, N. Y., and
Bergen Point, N. J., he was appointed, in 1876, dean
of the Protestant Episcopal theological school in
Cambridge, Mass. The University of New York
gave him" the degree of D. D. in 1876. He published
" The Children's Crusade in the Thirteenth Cent-
ury " (Boston, 1872) ; " Recognition in the World
to Come " (New York, 1875) ; and " Husband and
Wife, or the Theory of Marriage " (Boston, 1885).
— Hi^ brother, Albert Zabriskie, clergyman, b.
in New York city, 2 Mai-ch, 1840 ; d. in Chicago,
111., 16 Feb., 1889. He was graduated at the Uni-
versity of New York in 1860, and at the Gen-
eral theological seminary of the Protestant Epis-
copal church in 1864. During the civil war he
served as chaplain of the 4th Massachusetts cav-
alry. After holding various pastorates, he was
elected warden of Racine college, Wis., in 1882. and
he was associated with the work of church reform
and reunion in Europe undertaken by the Prot-
estant Episcopal church, and was a delegate to the
general convention in 1886. His publications are
" The Land and the Life, or Sketches and Studies
in Palestine " (New York, 1876) ; " Mexico as it Is"
(1878) ; " Words of the Cross " (1880) ; and " Jesus
Only, and Other Sacred Songs " (1882).
GRAY, Henry Peters, artist, b. in New York
city, 28 June, 1819; d. there, 12 Nov., 1877. He
entered the studio of Daniel Huntington in 1838,
and in the following year went to Europe for study.
In 1843 he returned to New York and executed
several genre and historical paintings. He made
a second trip to Europe in 1846, where he produced
several of his most characteristic works, including
" Cupid begging his Arrows," " Proserpine and
Bacchus," and '• Teaching a C'hild to Pray." He
then estal)lished himself in New York, and was
elected, in 1869, president of the National academy,
which place he held until 1871, when he went to
Florence, and remained there till 1874. Classical
subjects were his favorites, and he was fond of
studying the old Venetian masters, especially Ti-
tian. During the latter years of his life he devoted
his time to the painting of portraits, of which he
left more than 250. Among his works are " Wages
of War " ; " Hagar and the Angel " ; " Cleopatra " ;
" Charity " ; " St. Christopher " ; "I Fiore di
Fiesole " ; " Portia and Bassanio " ; " Genevieve " ;
" The Model from Cadore " : " The Immortality of
the Soul"; '-The Birth of Our Flag"; "Greek
Lovers " ; " Twilight Musings " ; " Normandy Girl " ;
an illustration of Irving's '• Pride of the Village " ;
and the " Ajiple of Discord," for which he was com-
mended at the Philadelphia centennial exhibition.
GRAY, Isaac Pusey, governor of Indiana, b. in
Chester county, Pa., 18 Oct., 1828 ; d. in city of Mex-
ico, 14 Feb., 1895, being American minister there.
He went to New Madison, Ohio, and in 1855 he
removed to Union City, Ind., where he engaged in
business for three years. At this time he began to
practise law, which he had studied at an early age.
He served in the civil war as colonel of the 4th
Indiana cavalry, but was compelled to retire, owing
to feeble health. Subsequently he recruited the
147th Indiana infantry. He was at first a Whig,
and then a Republican, but after 1871 he acted
with the Democratic party. In 1868 he was elected
to the state senate, and served four years. He was
a delegate to the Liberal Republican convention in
1872, and was elected lieutenant-governor on the
Democratic ticket in 1876 and governor in 1884.
In 1893 he was appointed minister to Mexico.
GRAY, James, clergyman, b. in Ireland, 25 Dec, 1770 ; d. in Gettysburg, Pa., 20 Sept., 1824. He was graduated at the University of Glasgow in 1793, studied theology, and was licensed to preach by the presbytery of Monaghan. He came to the United States in 1797, and, after laboring in
Washington, N. Y., until 1803, he became pastor of an Associate Reformed church in Philadelphia. He was active in establishing the theological seminary of that denomination in New York city, assisted in the organization of the Philadelphia Bible society in 1808, and was for some time its corresponding secretary. In connection with Dr. S. B.
Wylie he opened at this time a classical academy, but retired after several years and went to Baltimore, Md., where he devoted himself to the study of special subjects in theology. For one year he edited the "Theological Review." He published "Mediatorial Reign of the Son of God"; "Dissertation on the Priesthood of Jesus Christ and Melchisedec, together with the Life of Christ " (Hagerstown, Md., 1850) ; and sermons.
