Brief Life History of William J.
When William J. Gray was born on 17 July 1855, in Wheeler, Steuben, New York, United States, his father, Daniel Gray, was 41 and his mother, Lydia Myrtle, was 42. He married Lillian Caryl on 21 September 1878, in Worcester, Otsego, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Sheridan, Dunn, Wisconsin, United States in 1900 and New Haven, Dunn, Wisconsin, United States for about 5 years. He died on 24 February 1925, in Saint Paul, Ramsey, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Downing, Dunn, Wisconsin, United States.
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- William Grey in household of Daniel Grey, "United States Census, 1860"
- William J Gray, "Minnesota Deaths, 1887-2001"
- Wm.J. Gray in entry for Daniel H. Gray and Delphine Nelson, "Montana, County Marriages, 1865-1950"
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World Events (8)
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1867 · The First Successful Typewriter is Invented
A patent was filed on October 11, 1867, on a new direct action typewriter. The patent was filed by Christopher Latham Sholes, Carlos Glidden, and Samuel Soule who had invented the prototype in Milwaukee.
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, and Irish (especially Eastern Ulster; of Norman origin): habitational name from Graye in Calvados, France, named from the Gallo-Roman personal name Graec(i)us, meaning ‘Greek’ + the locative suffix -acum. This is probably the chief source of the surname in Britain.
English: nickname for someone with gray hair or a gray beard, from Middle English grey (Old English grǣg, grēg) ‘gray’. In Ireland it has been used as a translation of various Gaelic surnames derived from riabhach ‘brindled, gray’, including Mac Giolla Riabhaigh; see McGreevy . In North America, this surname has assimilated names with similar meaning from other languages.
French: habitational name from Gray in Haute-Saône or Le Gray in Seine-Maritime.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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