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college (1895-1897) and his specialty was the mile run in which he distinguished himself. He carried forward his athletic record by winning first place in the mile in the Harvard-Yale dual meet in 1898 while in the Medical School.
From such letters and communications as the Secretary has received, it would appear that Grant is still enthusiastic about athletics and the fact that he is a Harvard man.
Grant, the son of Alexander and Anna (Hudson) Grant, was born August 3, 1870, at Dufferin, Ontario, Canada. He prepared at St. Mary's Ontario Collegiate Institute, St. Mary's, Ontario. He was in college two years, receiving his S.B. at our graduation, and spent six years in the Medical School.
On June 7, 1909, he married Edith Hutchings at St. Mary's, Ontario. Their children are: Margaret Terry Hudson; Richard Lincoln; Camilla Maria; John Caruso Dick; and Vashti.
WALTER MONROE GRANT
I SPEND my winters in Florida," writes Walter Grant, "where I have great fun bowling on the green, and my summers at my camp in Vale Perkins, Quebec, on Lake Memphamagog. There I have lived alone and fished ever since 1935 when an auto retired me.
"In the summer of '46 I broke my ten-year habit of doing nothing in the art world but hanging two shows each year in the Montpelier and Canajoharie museums. I was asked by the South- ern Vermont Artists Association to run their annual show in Manchester, Vermont. I went down from camp and spent three weeks getting things ready and ten days looking after the show. The attendance for ten days was six thousand and the sales $13,000. I was pleased but worn out.
"On the last day of the Manchester exhibition my elder sister died suddenly in our old home in Arlington, Massachusetts. I came down to straighten out her affairs, and expect to go to Florida soon.
"I am trying, like so many of our Class, to keep in good enough condition physically to enjoy our Fiftieth."
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Grant, the son of George Comstock and Hortense (Lovett) Grant, was born April 18, 1875, at Chelsea, Massachusetts. He prepared at the Arlington, Massachusetts, High School. He was with our Class four years. He married Inez Flora Williamson, August 9, 1899, at Malden, Massachusetts. Their children are: Robert Barron, born December 31, 1901; Gordon Lovett, born October 3, 1905; Richard Foss, born July 29, 1907; and Carl Ed- ward, born June 13, 1911. There are three grandchildren, one of whom, Robert Barron Grant, Jr., is an acolyte in the Episcopal Church in Mendham, New Jersey. He acted as patrol leader in the movie on Boy Scout work made by the Boy Scouts of America in the summer of 1946.
"From 1897 to 1916, I was in the publishing business," writes Grant. "From the latter year until 1935, I was an art director in charge of exhibitions. For two years, 1917 to 1919, I was head of the exhibition department in the British Bureau of Information, which was part of the British War Mission. I have been told that I was the only American to head a department. I was responsible only to Sir Geoffrey Butler, chief of the Bureau. In 1940 I was elected trustee of the Wood Art Gallery of Montpelier. Six years later I was elected by the trustees honorary director of the Cana- joharie Art Gallery of Canajoharie, New York."
+ FREDERICK COLEMAN GRATWICK
F REDERICK COLEMAN GRATWICK died April 20, 1937, at Buffalo, New York. The son of William Henry and Martha (Wiese) Gratwick, he was born March 5, 1874, at Albany. He prepared for college at the Heathcote School in Buffalo. After taking his A.B. in 1897, he attended the Law School for two years, and then passed the New York Bar examinations. He toured the West and Alaska, returned to Buffalo for a business college course during the summer of 1900, and then went to Europe. During the next two years he travelled in the Near and Far East, Australia, and New Zealand. Returning to Buffalo in 1905, he began to practise law with the firm of Chester & Smith, later Chester, Smith & Gratwick. In addition to his practice, he gave a course at the
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Buffalo Law School. In 1915, his senior partner having died, the co-partnership of Swift, Gratwick & Potter was formed.
Gratwick was a member of the board of directors of the Colum- bia National Bank of Buffalo and of the Federal Telephone & Telegraph Company, a director of the Lumber Insurance Com- pany of New York, an officer of the Trinity Episcopal Church, a member of the board of managers of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, a director and secretary of the Buffalo Fine Arts Acad- emy, president of the Buffalo Homeopathic Hospital, director and treasurer of the Buffalo Association for the Blind, and president of the Millard Fillmore Hospital. He was at one time chairman of the Joint Charities campaign and served a term as president of the Harvard Club of Buffalo. The list of his services is long, testi- fying to his faithful and untiring efforts in behalf of his com- munity.
On February 14, 1910, at Buffalo, he married Dotha Denison Dart, who survived him, together with their five children - Frederick Coleman, Jr., born November 10, 1910; Davies, born January 22, 1912; Liza and Martha (twins), born December 12, 1914; and Stephen, born in November, 1923.
CLIFTON DAGGETT GRAY
O N September 1, 1944, having reached retirement age," writes Clifton Gray, "I became president emeritus of Bates College, which I had served for practically a quarter of a century as its third president. Since then I have divided my time between my summer home in Ocean Park, Maine, and Claremont, California.
"My entire life has been devoted to the Christian ministry; first in the professional preparation for the teaching of the languages of the Old Testament; then as pastor of churches in Michigan and Massachusetts; later as editor and publisher of The Standard, Chicago, the leading liberal Baptist weekly; and finally as presi- dent of Bates, a church college originally founded by the Free Baptists.
"Beyond the natural satisfaction of doing a fairly good job in the widely diversified tasks which the Christian ministry has
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brought me, I have had deep interest in the careers of my three sons. My eldest son, Malcolm, has been for some years the New England manager of Paul & Company, Philadelphia, investment bankers, with offices in Boston and Portland. My second son, Paul, became a career officer of the State Department. He was a vice-consul in Stuttgart, Germany, for five years, and then be- came first secretary of legation in Montevideo, Uruguay, where his untimely death cut short a career of unusual promise. My youngest son, Clifton, Jr., has followed in his father's footsteps and is now in his second pastorate in the Creston Avenue Baptist Church in New York City.
"My philosophy of life, as expressed years ago in our Quinde- cennial Report, is the same today: 'I have been happiest when I have most to do, and when the doing has been for someone else.'
"In view of the fact that I shall probably be physically unable to attend our Fiftieth, I want to express here my profound pride in the outstanding contributions which President Conant and my Alma Mater have made toward the winning of the late war. In the difficult days that lie ahead, may Harvard continue to serve God and country with like devotion in order that her sons may enjoy a better, and, if possible, a warless world."
Gray was born July 27, 1874, at Somerville, Massachusetts, the son of Jefferson Jenness and Alida Mazella (Daggett) Gray. He prepared for college at the Somerville High School. After four years with our Class, he was graduated magna cum laude. He received honorable mention in Semitic Languages and in Philos- ophy twice. He studied for two years at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and received an A.M. in 1898. The following year he obtained an S.T.B. at the Newton Theological School, and at the University of Chicago in 1900. In 1901 he was granted a Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. The University of Maine conferred an LL.D. upon him in 1922, and Colgate University honored him with an L.H.D. in 1940.
Gray married Neva Belle Ham, June 28, 1900, at Hampton Falls, New Hampshire. They had three children: Malcolm Jeffer- son, born March 1, 1903 (married Marion Joyce Ripley, August 2, 1927); Paul Judson, born March 25, 1906 (married Blanch Louise
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Kaufman, November 28, 1929) (died May 1, 1935); and Clifton Daggett, Jr., born August 21, 1916 (married Alice Carolyn Neily, June 24, 1940). There are four grandchildren: Joyce Louise Gray, 14, daughter of Malcolm J. Gray; Alice Louise Gray, 13, daughter of Paul J. Gray; David Judson Gray, 2/2, and Clifton Daggett Gray, 3d, 4 months, sons of Clifton D. Gray, Jr.
During the first World War, Gray was a member of a party of editors of religious journals who were guests of the British Gov- ernment and travelled extensively on the war fronts studying war conditions. In World War II, he writes that he was instrumental in helping the training of Naval officer material by offering the facilities of Bates College for a Navy V-12 Unit.
Since 1908 he has been a trustee of the Newton Theological School, and served as western secretary of the Baptist World Alliance from 1923 to 1928, and since 1928 has held the title of honorary associate secretary.
He is the author of The Shamash Religious Texts, published by the University of Chicago in 1901; Translations in Assyrian and Babylonian Literature, edited by R. F. Harper and published by Appleton & Company in 1901; and Youth On The March, pub- lished by Richard R. Smith in 1931.
He was made an honorary member of Phi Beta Kappa, Harvard Chapter, in 1920, and a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour of France in 1935. He is a member of the University Club of Clare- mont, California, and is a Rotarian, a Mason, and a Republican.
HENRY GUNTHER GRAY
HAVE been in the active practice of the law since graduation I from the Harvard Law School in 1900," writes Henry Gray. "The present name of my firm is Sage, Gray, Todd, & Sims. Our offices are at 49 Wall Street, New York City.
"The Sage in the firm name was Dean Sage, Yale '97, a classmate of mine in the Harvard Law School. He died July 1, 1943. Four of my seven partners are Harvard Law School graduates."
Gray entered the law office of Zabriskie, Burrell & Murray in New York City immediately after leaving law school. On January
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1, 1902, he was appointed a deputy assistant district attorney for the county of New York by William Travers Jerome. He retained this office until the end of Mr. Jerome's first term in 1905. That autumn Dean Sage, Albert B. Kerr, Yale '97, New York Law School '99, and Gray formed a new law firm under the name of Sage, Kerr & Gray. In May, 1907, their firm was merged with the old established firm of Zabriskie, Burrill & Murray. Upon the re- tirement of Mr. Murray, the name was changed to Zabriskie, Sage, Kerr & Gray.
During World War I, Gray was chairman of Local Draft Board No. 91, City of New York, from September, 1917, to the termina- tion of the Selective Service Draft. He was Government Appeal Agent from August to September, 1917, assigned to Local Draft Board No. 91.
In November, 1916, before the United States entered the Euro- pean war, he went to England and France. While in France he spent several days at the front as a special correspondent of the New York Sun.
The son of John Clinton Gray, LL.B. '66, LL.D. '13, and Hen- rietta Pauline Gunther, he was born October 4, 1875, at New York City. He prepared at the Racine College Grammar School in Racine, Wisconsin; Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, New Jersey; Pensionnat Hacius, Lancy, Switzerland; and Albany Acad- emy, Albany, New York. After four years with our Class, he received his A.B. cum laude. He obtained an A.M. in 1898.
He married Edith Deacon, November 9, 1916, at Hamilton, Massachusetts. Their children are: Audrey, born January 27, 1918; Beatrice Dorothy, born January 27, 1919; and Alison Evelyn, born September 9, 1925. There are three grandchildren. Gray has three Harvard brothers: John Clinton Gray, '97, Albert Zabriskie Gray, '03, and Austen Gray, '03.
Gray has been trustee of the Lawrenceville School since 1922, and was a member of the Executive Committee of the Prison Association of New York for about thirty years. He belongs to the Racquet & Tennis Club, Down Town Association, Coffee House, Boone & Crochett Club, all of New York City, and the Piping Rock Club of Locust Valley, New York. He is a member of the
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Association of the Bar of the City of New York and of other Bar associations.
JOHN CLINTON GRAY
JOHN GRAY was born March 16, 1874, at New York City, the son of John Clinton Gray, LL.B. '66, LL.D. '13, and Henrietta Gunther. He prepared for college at the Albany Academy in Al- bany, New York. He was with our Class four years, receiving his A.B. at our graduation. He spent the following year at the Law School.
Gray's brother, Henry Gunther Gray, is also a member of '97. He took his LL.B. from Harvard in 1900. His brother, Albert Zabriskie Gray, was graduated with the Class of '03. His step- brother, Austen Gray, also took his A.B. with the Class of '03.
Gray married Grace Llewellyn Eaton, August 16, 1917. In that year he entered the Plattsburg Officers' Training School. He served with the Army for two years and was discharged as a first lieutenant.
Since graduation he has been a banker and broker, and is asso- ciated with the New York firm of Mathews & Company.
FRANCIS GREANY
TN September, 1897," writes Greany, "I went to Honolulu, Hawaii, to teach in the Honolulu High School. By June of the following year, however, feeling that teaching in Honolulu offered unsatisfactory financial emolument, I resigned and entered business in that city.
"During the next five years, I became a director in several Hawaiian corporations. In 1904 I disposed of most of my Hawaiian interests and came back to the mainland. I remained in San Francisco for the next six years engaged in manufacturing.
"On July 6, 1910, I married Ethel Louise Fayant at Iowa Falls, Iowa. Later that year I returned to Boston as a manufacturer's agent, and I am still active in that capacity.
"I am president of the Coronet Card Shops, Incorporated, of
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Taunton, Massachusetts, and am a member of the Taunton Har- vard Club. As an avocation I served for twenty-two years on the Mansfield, Massachusetts, Board of Assessors, most of the time as chairman of the Board. I retired in 1945."
Greany was born June 22, 1875, at Quincy, Massachusetts, the son of Michael Broderick and Mary Catherine (Murphy ) Greany. He prepared at Adams Academy in Quincy, and received his A.B. in 1897 after four years with our Class. His children are: Charlotte, born June 17, 1911; Theodore, born January 30, 1913; Earl Victor, born July 21, 1916; Zerita, born June 19, 1918; Bar- bara; and Jeanne. There are seven grandchildren.
EDWARD JAMES GREEN
G' REEN did not reply to the Secretary's requests for biographical information. As far as is known, his home is still in the town of Jamestown, New York, where he was born on April 6, 1875, and where he returned after his graduation from Law School in 1900 to practise law. He is the son of Eleazer and Mary Eva (Brown) Green. He attended Leland Stanford University before coming to Harvard and was with our Class from 1895 to 1897, taking an A.B. in 1897. In 1902 he was elected to the Jamestown Board of Education and later became its secretary.
* JAMES EDGAR GREGG
J AMES EDGAR GREGG was born in Hartford, Connecticut, the son of James Bartlett and Mary (Needham) Gregg. He was pre- pared for college at Cutler Academy in Colorado Springs. After graduating with our Class, he taught for three years at St. George's School, Newport, Rhode Island. He then studied for a year at the Harvard Divinity School and received an A.M. in 1901. He fin- ished his training for the Christian ministry at Yale, receiving his B.D. degree in 1903.
At Middletown, Rhode Island, on March 16, 1903, Gregg married Pauline Pumpelly, who died May 27, 1911. On June 10, 1914, he married Mary Livingston Hinsdale at Pittsfield, Massa-
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chusetts. She survived him as did three children - Elise Pumpelly (Gregg) Gaw, born April 3, 1908; James, born September 1, 1909; and Theodore Hinsdale Gregg, born April 17, 1915. Another son, Gerald Hinsdale Gregg, born September 3, 1916, died in 1940.
Gregg's first parish was that of the Pilgrim Memorial Church in Pittsfield, where he remained from July, 1903, to October, 1909. From 1909 to 1912 he was minister of the Kirk Street Church in Lowell, Massachusetts. For the next six years he was at the First Church of Christ in Pittsfield. He then left Pittsfield to become principal of Hampton Institute in Virginia, one of the leading schools for Negroes. He remained there until July, 1929, and during his administration the educational status of the Institute was raised to the college level, new buildings were erected, and the endowment funds were largely increased. From 1929 to 1940 he was-minister of the First Church in Waterbury, Connecticut. He then retired to a house which he had built outside Pittsfield, but from 1942 to 1945 he served as interim pastor for the First Church of Williamstown, because of the absence for military service of its minister. He died at Pittsfield on February 23, 1946.
Gregg was the recipient of three honorary degrees: a D.D. from Yale in 1918 and from Williams College in 1923, and an LL.D. from Wilberforce University in 1924. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and a trustee for many years of Penn School in South Carolina and of the Southern Educational Foundation.
Gregg's life was spent in devoted service in the fields of educa- tion and religion. He was a sound scholar, a greatly beloved min- ister and citizen, a man of the highest integrity, with generous sympathies and unfailing courtesy for all sorts and conditions of men. Few men so adequately embody the ideal of the Christian gentleman.
H. W. F.
EUGENE MONROE GREGORY
T wo influences, outside of the family, did the most to form my character," writes Gregory. "The first was the educational and religious enthusiasm at Howard University, Washington,
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D. C., where my father was professor of Latin, and where I lived on the campus from birth until I entered Harvard. The second great influence was the atmosphere of tolerance, justice, and truth at Harvard. Endeavoring not to swerve under stress from the principles thus engendered, sometimes to the detriment of ma- terial and official advancement, has been the greatest satisfaction of my life.
"Previous Reports have given something of the summary of my life until about the time I left the practice of the law in New York and accepted a position as title examiner in the Title Guar- anty Company of New Jersey at Newark in May, 1927. I remained there four years, until the company was forced to suspend during the depression.
"I then did title work for various clients including the Leonardo B. & L. Association of Leonardo, New Jersey, in Monmouth County. To be nearer my main work at Freehold, the county seat of Monmouth County, we moved, in 1933, to a three-acre place about six miles from Freehold. There was a dilapidated house over one hundred years old and an old mill wheel, but the land was varied with crests and slopes, a small lake across the road which gave power to the mill, the Manalapan Brook forming one boundary, a small stream running through, and all backed by deep woods. Here was a blank canvas which gave us a free hand for landscaping and development. For thirteen years most of my time has been devoted to improvements there, in the course of which I learned to do most of the necessary carpentry and how to handle rocks, large and small, in the rock gardens and in the masonry of walls and posts. Now the vegetable garden, the trees, hedges, shrubbery, and lawns are well established and thriving. I dug nearly the entire land by hand, so that I know every inch intimately.
"Some have thought that my wife and I have contributed much in the way of beauty and interest to the community. This has turned out to be another great satisfaction in our lives, though we have lived, especially at the beginning, a very primitive life.
"During the last three years I have been doing more regular title work for Roberts, Pillsbury, Carton & Sorenson, attorneys of
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Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey, but I still find some time for the upkeep and improvement of our little estate. I have also become something of a country lawyer, and I suppose there is hardly a family within the radius of five miles of our home to whom I have not given some legal advice. This opportunity for real service and help is another great satisfaction."
Gregory, the son of James Monroe Gregory, Howard '69, and Fannie Emma Hagan, Howard University, was born October 2, 1874, at Williamsport, Pennsylvania. He prepared at the High School and Preparatory Department of Howard University. He received his A.B. cum laude after four years with our Class. He attended the Law School for one year and received his LL.B. at Columbian University (now George Washington University) in 1899.
He writes that he has a vivid recollection of an incident in a class baseball game against '96. "Several people asked me after the game what Dean said to me when he came over to the pitcher's box," he recalls. "The occasion was this: Griffin, '96, knocked a slow fair ball along the first-base line. I ran over and intercepted it, and rather than risk a throw to first, I confronted the oncoming Griffin, and in the collision I tagged him out. A roar of boos and hisses arose and Dean naturally came over and asked me why I did it. I replied, 'To make sure of him,' and Dean said, 'All right.' The next morning I met Griffin crossing the Yard and told him that I was sorry, and he replied in a kindly manner, 'Oh, that was all right.' So I believe that there were no hard feelings anywhere and, as for me, I had none and have only pleasant recollections of the game."
Gregory's brother, Thomas Montgomery Gregory, is a member of the Harvard Class of 1910.
Gregory married Musette Brooks, June 23, 1904, at Washing- ton, D. C. She died July 26, 1921, at Mt. McGregor, New York. He married Minnie Ockrey on December 24, 1924, at Newark, New Jersey. She died October 16, 1928, at Montclair, New Jer- sey. His marriage to Annie Bee took place November 2, 1929, at Baltimore, Maryland. His daughter, Anne, born October 11, 1925, died October 16, 1928.
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During the first World War, Gregory was head of the Legal Department of the Effects Bureau of the War Department and assistant judge advocate for maritime affairs. In World War II, he was a civilian volunteer in the U. S. Army Aircraft Warning Service. He worked at Station No. 54A, Freehold, New Jersey, which was situated on land adjoining his home.
WALTER ALDEN GRIFFIN
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INCE serving a two-year internship at the Boston City Hospital,"
reports Griffin, "I have practised medicine in Sharon, Massa- chusetts. This sounds prosaic, but I am of the opinion that life has yielded me rich rewards in friends long known; in patients, who sometimes show a loyalty that is astounding; in freedom from economic anxieties; and in opportunities for continuing study as medicine goes forward with great strides.
"For forty years I was medical resident at the Sharon Sana- torium. Because of this I gained a rather undeserved reputation for knowledge of pulmonary tuberculosis. I spent thirty-odd years at the Sanatorium in association with Dr. Vincent Y. Bow- ditch, who was like a medical father to me. These years were a great delight. The Sanatorium now treats only children with rheumatic heart disease. With this change I have gained a new medical outlook and have been given a chance to study a quite different type of patient.
"Aside from work, there have been many pleasures, notably three bright intervals of travel, one to the Pacific Coast, and two to Europe. My last crossing of the ocean in 1927 was particularly pleasant. It was taken in the company of five other men. To- gether we made walking trips in England, in southern France, and in Andorra.
"My days are full of activity, for, wedged in between working hours, I play an occasional set of tennis or perhaps walk around the golf course. Gardening also takes a good many hours in sum- mer and repays with quantities of flowers and an occasional vege- table. Another pleasure is music, especially singing. I have taken some leading parts in Gilbert & Sullivan operas. The tenor section in the church choir, also, has been my pleasure and perhaps my
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duty during the war. I have belonged to the Handel & Haydn Society of Boston for the last three years.
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