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Title:
Francis Calley Gray
Dated:
ca. 1825
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 133.5 X 104.1 cm
(52 9/16 X 41 in.)
framed: 121.92 X 151.77
X 7.3 cm
(48 X 59 3/4 X 2 7/8 in.)
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Cambridge, MA
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Gray
Gray
Coulter [q.v.], chapter in Leading Am. Men of Science
(a confidential of an invention which is
(1910), ed. by D. S. Jordan Francis Darwin, The Life
and Letters of Charles Darwin (2 vols., 1888) and
not fully perfected) in the United States Patent
More Letters of Charles Darwin (2 vols., 1903) Leon-
Office on Feb. 14, 1876. That very day, but a few
ard Huxley, Life and Letters of Sir J. D. Hooker (2
hours earlier, Alexander Graham Bell filed a
vols., 1918) G. L. Goodale, "The Development of
Botany since 1818," in A Century of Science in Amer-
patent application for a speaking telephone, thus
ica with Special Reference to the Am. Jour. of Science
anticipating Gray. With the subsequent forma-
1818-1918 (1918) G. F. Wright, "The Debt of the
Church to Asa Gray," Bibliotheca Sacra, July 1888;
tion of the Bell Telephone Company and the in-
Gamaliel Bradford, As God Made Them (1929) ; The
troduction of the telephone as a competitor of the
Development of Harvard Univ. (1930), ed. by S. E.
Morison ; B. L. Robinson, "Asa Gray," Science, July
telegraph, the Western Union Telegraph Com-
17, 1925, "Portraits in the Gray Herbarium," Harvard
pany acquired Gray's as well as Edison's tele-
Alumni Bull., Mar. 5, 1931, and letter to editor, May
phone patents and a bitter infringement battle
9, 193I, parts of which have been used freely in the
composition of this article.]
G.H.G.
followed, extending over several years and in-
volving the most malicious accusations of mal-
GRAY, ELISHA (Aug. 2, 1835-Jan. 21, 1901),
practise both within the Patent Office and out-
inventor, was born at Barnesville, Belmont Coun-
side. Bell's patent of Mar. 7, 1876, was sustained,
ty, Ohio, the son of David and Christiana (Ed-
but the Gray-Bell controversy, in the minds of
gerton) Gray. His father, who had emigrated
many people, has never been tisfactorily set-
from Pennsylvania and had married there, was
tled. Gray never fully recovered from this disap-
rather unfortunate financially and the family
pointment but he continued for the balance of his
lived modestly on the farm, the children attend-
life to invent electrical devices and amassed
ing the public schools. Before Elisha had com-
about seventy patents. For some of these the
pleted his studies his father died suddenly and he
financial return to him was quite large but he
was compelled to find work. He first/tried black-
spent all in further research work. Probably his
smithing but found that he was not strong
most important invention in his later years was
enough to carry on that trade. He then took up
the telautograph, patented in 1888 and 1891. By
carpentry and boat-building and was working at
this electrical mechanism facsimile writing or
these trades when one of the professors of Ober-
drawing could be transmitted to distant points
lin College encouraged him to try to get a college
almost instantaneously. Gray had developed the
education. Gray was then twenty-two years old
invention by 1893/ and at the World's Fair in
and by doing carpentry work to earn his way, he
Chicago that year/ the transmitted writing through
was able to spend three years in the preparatory
wire resistances équivalent to 250 miles. The tel-
school and two years in the college. His par-
autograph came into general use in banks and
ticular interest during his college course lay in
railway stations, and was adaptable to a variety
the physical sciences and by the time of his leav-
of industrial uses. At the time of his sudden death
ing this interest narrowed to electrical mecha-
near Boston. Mass., Gray was engaged in ex-
nisms. Ill health, brought on by overwork while
perimentation with under-water signaling to ves-
in college, greatly restricted his activities for the
sels at sea. Besides numerous articles which
succeeding five years, but during the six years
appeared in technical journals, he published Ex-
after 1867 he invented an automatic self-adjust-
perimental Researches in Electro-Harmonic
ing telegraphic relay, a telegraph switch and an-
Telegraphy (1878) and Nature's Miracles (3
nunciator for hotels, a private telegraph line
vols., 1899-1900). In 1893 he was organizing
printer, and a telegraphic repeater. In 1872 he
chairman of the first International Electrical
moved to Chicago where he maintained his resi-
Congress, held in Chicago. He was decorated
dence throughout his life and organized with E.
by the French government and was the recipient
M. Barton/tl firm of Gray & Barton out of
of honorary degrees from several colleges in the
which grew the Western Electric Company. He
United States. His wife was M. Delia Shepard
continued in the firm for about two years and
of Oberlin, Ohio, whom he married about 1865
then retired to devote his whole time to electrical
and who with a son survived him.
researches. Gray's interest at this time lay in the
[The Am. Inventor, Feb. I, 1901; Electrical Rev.,
development of a system of electro-harmonic
Jan. 26, 1901; E. W. Byrn, Progress of Invention in
the Nineteenth Century (1900) T. A. L. Du Moncel,
telegraphy for transmitting musical tones as a
The Telephone, Microphone and Phonograph (1879)
means of increasing the number of messages ca-
Electrical World and Engineer, Jan. 26, 1901.]
pable of being sent simultaneously over a single
C. W. M.
wire. He obtained two patents for the system
GRAY, FRANCIS CALLEY (Sept. 19, 1790-
July 27, 1875. As he progressed in this, the idea
Dec. 29, 1856), Harvard benefactor, traced his
of transmitting vocal sounds came to him and af-
descent from William Gray, a pioneer maker of
ter experimenting for some time he filed a caveat
shoes at Lynn, Mass., whose grandson, William
514
Gray
Gray
ention which is
ed States Patent
Gray [q.v.], settled at Salem, Mass., entered the
ner Forbes, The Rich Men of Mass. (2nd ed., 1852).
His career is outlined in Wm. T. Davis, Bench and Bar
y day, but a few
shipping business, and prospered exceedingly.
of the Commonwealth of Mass. (1895), and more fully
am Bell filed a
He married Elizabeth, daughter of John Chip-
in an obituary notice in the Boston Daily Advertiser,
Dec. 30, 1856. For particulars of his Harvard benefac-
; telephone, thus
man of Marblehead, and Francis Calley was
tions see Harvard Univ., Ann. Reports of the President,
their sixth child. Born at Salem, he attended the
1856-57, 1857-58; and Harvard Univ. (1900), ed. by
bsequent forma-
Joshua L. Chamberlain, pt. 2, p. 92; Cat. of the Coll. of
pany and the in-
public schools there, proceeding in due course to
Engravings Bequeathed to Harvard Coll. by Francis
competitor of the
Harvard College, where he graduated in 1809.
Calley Gray (1869).]
H.
Telegraph Com-
In August 1809 he accompanied John Quincy
is Edison's tele-
Adams, the newly appointed minister to Russia,
GRAY, GEORGE (May 1840-Aug.7,
ringement battle
in the capacity of unpaid secretary to the United
jurist, was the great-grandson of William Gray
al years and in-
States legation at St. Petersburg. After spending
who, leaving Belfast early in the eighteenth cen-
usations of mal-
four years abroad he returned in 1813, studied
tury, settled in Kent County, Del. His grand-
C Office and out-
law in Boston, and was admitted to the Massa-
father, Andrew Gray, moved to New Castle
County, in 1808, and his father, Andrew Cald-
-6, was sustained,
chusetts bar in 1814. He did not, however, en-
gage in active practise but, taking up his resi-
well Gray, who married Elizabeth, daughter of
in the minds of
satisfactorily set-
dence in Boston, devoted himself to public affairs
Frederick Scofield of Stamford, Conn., was a
and literary pursuits. By family tradition a Fed-
capitalist and lawyer practising at New Castle,
1 from this disap-
eralist, he became in 1822 a representative of
where he himself was born. Obtaining his early
the balance of his
es and amassed
Boston in the General Court, and by successive
education in the local schools, he went in 1857 to
me of these the
reelections continued such until his election as
the College of New Jersey, now Princeton Uni-
uite large but he
senator from Suffolk County in 1825, which posi-
versity, graduating in 1859. He then studied law
tion he filled in 1826, 1828, 1829, 1831, and 1843.
in his father's office, spent a year at the Harvard
rk. Probably his
He was also elected a member of the Executive
Law School, and was admitted to the Delaware
S later years was
Council in 1835. Since he did not possess a strong
bar in 1863. He practised at New Castle, then at
88 and 1891. By
imile writing or
political instinct, his legislative career was un-
Wilmington, his father's yarious industrial and
railroad interests furnishing him at the outset
to distant points
distinguished.
had developed the
In 1826 Gray was elected a fellow of Harvard.
with opportunities of advancement. A strong
World's Fair in
It was a critical period in the history of the col-
Democrat, he engaged actively in local politics
and was a delegate to the National Democratic
d writing through
lege in that receipts were not meeting expendi-
50 miles. The tel-
tures and upon him and his colleagues devolved
Convention of 1876. He had become the recog-
the responsibility of remedying the situation. To
nized leader of the /local bar when Gov. Hall in
use in banks and
this task he devoted himself whole-heartedly both
1879 appointed him attorney-general of Dela-
table to a variety
in council and by public appeal, and when he re-
ware. In this position he displayed great energy
of his sudden death
tired in 1836 radical retrenchments and reforms
and efficiency, and despite his corporation affili-
S engaged in ex-
r signaling to ves-
had freed the college from financial embarrass-
ations no outside influences were permitted to
ment. Gray never married, and by virtue of
interfere with enforcement of the law. Reap-
is articles which
recommendations contained in his will, Harvard
pointed in 1884 by Gov. Stockley, he resigned
he published Ex-
became the beneficiary of a considerable portion
Mar. 16, IS85, on his election as United States
Electro-Harmonic
of his estate, including a choice collection of 3,000
senator. He remained in the Senate for four-
ire's Miracles (3
engravings, together with $16,000, the income of
teen years, being reèlected in 1887 and 1893 and
e was organizing
which was to be applied in connection with the
serving till March 1899. A masterly speech in
ational Electrical
He was decorated
collection, as well as an additional $50,000 with
which he had nominated Bayard for the presi-
which to establish and maintain a museum of
dency at the National Democratic Convention at
1 was the recipient
Cincinnati in 1880 had made him known national-
ral colleges in the
comparative zoölogy. His relatives, William
Gray and John Chipman Gray [q.v.], were also
ly (and in the Senate he took rank as one of the
M. Delia Shepard
benefactors, and the family name was perpetuated
leaders of his party. He declined to enter Cleve-
arried about 1865
im.
in Gray's Hall, a dormitory built by the Univer-
land's administration as attorney-general of the
sity in 1863. In addition to numerous contribu-
United States, but gave the President invaluable
DOI; Electrical Rev.,
ress of Invention in
tions to the North American Review and other
support on the floor of the Senate. In 1896 he
T. A. L. Du Moncel,
periodicals Gray wrote "Remarks on the Early
refused to follow Bryan on the currency question
Phonograph (1879)
in. 26, 1901.]
Laws of Massachusetts Bay, with the code adopt-
and actively supported the nominees of the Gold
ed in 1641, and called the Body of Liberties"
Democrats. During the latter portion of his term
C.W.M.
he served on the committee on foreign relations.
Y (Sept. 19, 1790-
(Massachusetts Historical Society Collections,
refactor, traced his
3 ser., vol. VIII, 1843) and Prison Discipline in
Though President McKinley was a political op-
1 pioneer maker of
America (1848).
ponent, he had a high regard for Gray's diplo-
matic temperament and ability and appointed him
grandson, William
[Details of the family history appear in Edward
Gray, Wm. Gray of Salem, Merchant (1914), and Ab-
a member of the Joint High Commission which
5 1 5
DAB
Francis Calley Gray (1790-1856) L12/29
Charles Knowles Bolton.
Boston Massachusetts Historical Society
Proceedings, 1914.
MEMOIR
AMONG prominent Bostonians of the first half of the nineteenth
century Francis Calley Gray was preeminent for his oratory
and erudition, two accomplishments more in repute in his day
than in our own. He was born in Salem, September 19, 1790, SO
that his young manhood covered the years of readjustment
following our Revolution, and that period of intellectual awak-
ening that stirred New England after the wars in France.
His father, William Gray, later Lieutenant-Governor of
Massachusetts, was the leading merchant of the time, with
between thirty and forty ships sailing the oceans of the globe
in pursuit of cargoes. In those days merchant ships were also
the gatherers and dispensers of news, and the arrival of a ship
was an event to stimulate a family of boys, with a father whose
interests were world-wide. His mother, Elizabeth Chipman,
x
was already known as a woman whose intellectual ability kept
1809 x 6
pace with her growing household duties.
Mr. Gray took his degree at Harvard in 1809, and went to
1822-8
Russia as an unpaid secretary to John Quincy Adams, then a
young and promising statesman. Always a student, Gray
began to fit himself for the law, finished his reading with Judge
1852-7
William Prescott, and was admitted to the bar in the Court of
Common Pleas, November II, 1814. In the winter of 1814-15
he made a journey to Washington and Virginia in company
with George Ticknor. The hardships endured in crossing
Maryland in January, and the poverty with which the two
young travellers came in contact, are vividly described in
Ticknor's letters. They met many distinguished people in
William Gray was the son of Abraham Gray, who married Lydia, daughter
of Francis Calley, of an old Marblehead family; the name was pronounced
Cawley," and was often so spelled in the early records. William had a
brother, Francis Calley Gray, who died without issue in I790.
x79
4
Washington and Richmond, including Madison and Jefferson.
Two years later Gray was admitted to practice in the higher
courts, but foreshadowed his tastes by delivering the same year
an oration on history, before the $ B K Society. The Rev. John
Pierce called it a "sensible" oration, and it no doubt had
weight in procuring his election to the Massachusetts Histori-
cal Society in January, 1818. He rose rapidly in the councils
of the Society, serving on many committees and editing several
volumes of the Collections. His personality, his wide and
exact knowledge, as well as his readiness to serve every seeker
for facts, soon made him the final authority in times of doubt
and controversy. James Savage said that he had never known
any one "SO distinguished in the universality of his studies,"
and added quaintly: "This distinction arose not solely from
the number of degrees in the circumference of his knowledge,
but equally from penetration toward the centre."
Mr. Gray became a fellow of the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences, May 25, 1819. He served as recording sec-
retary, 1827-29; as corresponding secretary, 1831-37, and as
a member of the Rumford Committee, 1833-37. Here he came
to be on intimate terms with men of science, and in the later
years of his life with Louis Agassiz.
But these societies offered little opportunity for the exercise
of his oratory as an expression of his deep interest in affairs,
and he followed his father into public life. His voice already
had the ring of a prophet, and in his address to the Massachu-
setts Charitable Fire Society, October IO, 1817, he showed his
grasp of world movements. His oration before the city au-
thorities on the Fourth of July following his election to the
Historical Society was in the opinion of good judges "one of
the best in the whole range of Boston oratory." In the Legis-
lature, to which he was elected in 1822, and in the State Senate,
where he served, with the exception of a few terms, for the next
two decades, he had scope for his knowledge of prison reform,
the treatment of the insane, and the general legislation that
affects property and personal rights.
In 1826, soon after his election to the Senate, he became a
Fellow of Harvard College, serving until 1836. This was a
period when the Governor presided over the Board of Over-
seers, and the affairs of the College were of quasi-public con-
5
cern. There were reports of decreasing attendance, increasing
expenses of students, an unneeded surplus, too large a library, a
system of education not adapted to practical ends, and the
growing domination of Unitarianism - complaints "keeping
each other in countenance," writes Mr. Gray to Governor
Lincoln in 1831, "by their noise and their number." Mr. Gray's
able and convincing refutation of the charges was printed and
had a very wide reading. His keen mind and positive views
brought him into relation with the orators of the time -
Webster, Choate, and Sumner. A vigorous tilt with Sumner
at the seven-day conference on prison reform, held at Tremont
Temple in 1847, led to a pamphlet on "Prison Discipline in
America," a notable attack on the solitary system of impris-
onment, reprinted the next year in England. Norton and
Webster spoke of it as exhaustive and convincing, and Ticknor
wrote: "Gray's pamphlet has done its perfect work, and set-
tled the question as between two systems of prison discipline.
I never knew anything of the sort so well received or produce
SO considerable effect." Mr. Gray gave liberally of his time to
institutions that touched his sympathies, serving as vice-
president of the Prison Discipline Society, chairman of the
board of directors of the State Prison at Charlestown, trustee
of the State Lunatic Hospital at Worcester from its estab-
lishment, and as a trustee of the Massachusetts General Hos-
pital. In the midst of his political and sociological work he
welcomed invitations to prepare orations for such occasions as
the State's recognition of Washington in 1832, the BK gather-
ing at Brown University in 1842, and others where he could
expound his views on civic problems. In 1841 Harvard made
him a Doctor of Laws. Never was the honor more properly
bestowed, for Mr. Gray had that rare combination - a memory
for the accurate details of history and a mind alive to the laws
of nations and the significance of great events. At Brown he
contended that the eyes of Europe were upon America. The
tyranny of the judiciary, equality of property and of condition,
monopoly, and mob-law all are watchwords that call for sanity
of judgment and a clear understanding of the meaning and
limitations of liberty. He said:
"The duty, which our situation calls on us to perform, is to
exhibit to mankind a popular representative system of gov-
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6
ernment; and to prove to them by our example, not only that
it is perfectly compatible with law, and order, and civilization,
but that, rightly administered, it improves, in every respect, the
social condition, humanizes the feelings, elevates the intel-
lectual and moral character, secures the rights, and promotes
the best interests and permanent happiness of the whole people.
Such is the MISSION OF AMERICA."
Mr. Gray was SO busily engaged in public affairs through the
greater part of his life that it is difficult to picture him as an
"antiquarian," although this is the designation which follows
his name in biographical dictionaries. It is true, however, that
his discovery of the Code of 1641, a manuscript copy of the
early laws of Massachusetts, called "The Body of Liberties,"
and his elaborate and thorough elucidation of its origin, history,
and value cleared away many misapprehensions that had in-
jured the reputation of the early colonists, and placed him in
the front rank of historical writers.1 When he became a propri-
1822
etor of the Boston Athenxum in 1822 he was recognized as a
scholar and at once elected a Trustee, serving as an officer con-
tinuously until his retirement as president of the Board of
Trustees in 1837. He had a real appreciation of sculpture,
painting, and engraving, and contributed to almost every fund
formed for the purchase of works of art for the Athenxum
Gallery. His rare engravings are now at Harvard College,
with money bequeathed by him for their care; and reproduc-
tions have long been the delight of many lovers of art who
perhaps never heard of the "Gray Collection."
The last year of his life he dwelt in conversation upon the
fields of science, literature, and art in which young men of
ability could best serve their country. "He never tired of
repeating," says Agassiz, "that intellectual and moral culture
was the object worthiest of the highest ambition." Increasing
illness made it impossible for him to deliver the address he had
begun to plan, but to Agassiz he spoke with emotion and great
fervor of his ideals.2
A short time before Mr. Gray's death, Agassiz proposed to
issue Contributions to the Natural History of the United States,
but could not obtain funds. Mr. Gray entered into the business
1
3 Mass. Hist. Collections, VIII. 191. Also reprinted.
2 Proceedings Amer. Acad. of Arts and Sciences, Jan. I3, 1857.
7
details of the project with enthusiasm and by letters and ap-
peals made the subscription list more successful than any one
had dared to believe possible. Agassiz already dreamed of a
museum of comparative zoölogy, and this also interested Mr.
Gray. His bequest of $50,000 the next year made the museum
a fact, although a provision of the will made it impossible to
associate his name with it.
Mr. Gray never married, but the social side of his nature led
bachelor
him into close relation with the chief men of the day. He
dined frequently with Prescott the historian, President Sparks
of Harvard, George Ticknor, and with other men whom he
met at the literary evening clubs and in travel. There are
delightful glimpses of outings spent at Daniel Webster's farm,
or at Lebanon Springs. He loved to saunter from place to place
abroad with congenial company. In the days when Washington
Irving was secretary of our legation in London, Thomas Coffin
Amory, an undergraduate searching for health, was persuaded to
accompany Mr. Gray to the English lake counties. There, with
letters of introduction, his wit, learning, and anecdote made
them welcome visitors to Wordsworth, Southey, Mrs. Hemans,
Scott, and a host of owners of ancient castles and forest estates.
He was in Rome in 1837 with Joseph G. Cogswell, later famous
as teacher, scholar, and librarian of the Astor Library in New
York. They journeyed northward together through Italy
and Switzerland.
Mr. Gray passed his early life in Salem, and came with the
family to Summer Street, Boston, in 1809. In 1834 he moved
to Beacon Street, and in 1845 he came to live near the Wards,
Ticknors, and Lawrences on Park Street, his windows over-
looking the Common. Here he entertained his friends of the
Wednesday Evening Club, "enlivening its meetings by his
wit and wisdom, his rich and varied learning, and cherishing
always a lively interest in its prosperity." "For twenty-six
years he was," says the Rev. Dr. Lothrop, "one of the orna-
ments of the Club."
In a delightful photograph of the members of the Friday
Evening Club, taken toward the end of his life, he stands at the
left hand of Lemuel Shaw, the great jurist. The Club was
organized earlier than the Friday Dinner Club, and the other
members who appear in the photograph are: Nathan Hale,
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Thomas Motley, James K. Mills, George Hayward, Nathan
Appleton, Charles Henry Warren, William Sturgis, Thomas
TWW
Wren Ward, and the Curtises, Benjamin Robbins, Thomas
Buckminster, and Charles Pelham - a distinguished group of
elderly men, old-fashioned to our eyes, but possessed of the
fine bearing of scholarly gentlemen.
Mr. Gray died in Boston, December 29, 1856. Robert C.
Winthrop, speaking after Mr. Gray's death, said: "As a man
of elegant accomplishments, of vast and varied acquisitions,
of thorough, exact, and well-digested information, ready at all
times to be communicated in private conversation or in public
discourse, he has left no superior and few equals, in this or any
other community." Prescott called him the most remarkable
man he had ever known, for "the variety and fulness of his
information, and a perfect command of it."
There is a portrait of Francis C. Gray at Memorial Hall in
Cambridge, painted by Francis Alexander. He is represented
as a young man seated at a table, his right hand resting upon a
book. He wears the collar and dark stock of the period, which
would seem to be about 1828, a year after Alexander settled
in Boston. There is also a marble bust of Mr. Gray by Hiram
Powers, the sculptor, now owned by Morris Gray, Esq., of
Chestnut Hill. In 1857 L. Schulze made a lithograph portrait.
About the year 1847 Lazarus Gottlieb Sichling engraved a
portrait from a photograph. (The bust of Shakespeare and
several books, which together form a background, were added
by the artist. Mr. Gray holds an engraving of Raphael's
Madonna of the Chair in his hand, and is represented as
younger than he appears in the photographic original. And
it is pleasant to believe that he, like others, having the fresh-
ness of literature and the beauty of art ever present, did not
grow old, but simply in good time passed away.
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ORATION
BEFORE THE
PHI BETA KAPPA SOCIETY
OF
BROWN UNIVERSITY
PROVIDENCE, R.I.,
ON
COMMENCEMENT DAY,
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SEPTEMBER 7, 1842.
BY FRANCIS C. GRAY
PROVIDENCE:
B. CRANSTON AND COMPANY.
1842
Among our numerous anniversaries, there are none more interesting, than those, in which we come up from the
cares, and the turmoil, and the contentions of the world, like the Jews of old yearly to their temple, to the sacred
seats of learning; to witness the proficiency and. do honour to the merit of the Youth, who, having completed
their collegiate course, are about entering on the duties of society, and to welcome them as fellow labourers in.
the field of life. The occasion carries us back to the period, when we stood, as they do, on the threshold of
existence, gazing eagerly into a future, not with clouds and darkness resting on it, but glowing with the sunshine
of hope, and peopled with the brightest visions of youthful expectation. It carries us forward to the day, when
they will look back, like us, on realities--how different from their dreams! It is good for us to be here, and being
here, to contemplate the past and the future. For us, who have come up hither from our daily pursuits, as it tend
to revive in all their original ardour, the generous purposes and high resolves of our youth, SO that we may
descend again into the arena of the world, refreshed and reinvigorated for its conflicts. It is good for them, to
pause before they step down among us, and to recall the principles here inculcated, with the firm resolution, that
in every hour of temptation or of peril, they will cling to them and hold them fast. It is good for us both, to look
round on our actual position, and forward on the task before us, and to consider in what manner it may be best
accomplished, what are the dangers and the obstacles in our way, and how we may avoid or surmount them.
Such a survey will show that there are many circumstances in our present condition, leading to the belief, that
the generation now rising into active life, in America, is destined to exert an uncommon influence on the
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1851.] Graduates of Harcard originating from Salem.
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GRADUATES OF HARVARD ORIGINATING FROM
SALEM.
The substance of the following article formerly appeared in the
American Quarierly Register. It has been enlarged and is now repub-
lished by permission.
The reference< to Felt's Annals are always to the original ed. (8 vo).
W. W., denotes William Winthrop.
J. P. D.
1642.-GEORGE Downing, son of Emanuel D., but born in London:
be returned 10 England in 1645; his diversified life successively presenting
the several phases of a preacher (the this was very brief), a Commissa-
ry-general (16-33), a member of Parliament from Scotland (1656), and
an ambassalor from Cromwell to the Hague (1637). Less than four
years after, he was sent in the same capacity to the same power by
the restored King. He seems to have been not a whit less adroit than his
contemporary, South, in suiting his temper to the times, and equally far-
sighted to see in their shadows, the signs of coming events. His charac-
ter, low as it stand with English historians, was more infamous yet in the
eyes of his New England countrymen, and it passed into R proverb, to
say of one who proved false to his trust, that "he was an arrant George
Downing." His renegade life will be found illustrated in Hutchinson,
Anthony Wood, and Pepps.-perhaps an epitome of it in sufficient detail
the reader will see in Felt's Annals of Salem, (pp. 166-170). and Fierce's
Hist. of Hare. Univ., (Appendix, No. 13). Downing Frances How-
and, of a high family, 1651 was Knighted by King Charles at the Hague,
when just about to set sail for the English shore, May 22, 1660; and
created a Baronet (styled in the Act- of East Hatley in Cambridgeshire")
July 1. 1663. He d) in 1634, (59). His sister, Ann, m. Gov. Bradstreet,
and survived to April, 1713. His grandson, G. D., d. without issue in
1747, and from his nunificence was created at Cumbridge in 1800, " Dow-
ning College," the youngest foundation of that seat of the Muses. The
value of the bequest is now estimated at more than £150,000. The pa-
rentage of the graduate, from the mistake, in the first instance, of bonest
Wood, was repeatedly mis-stated, as having been the son of Calybute D.,
a Puritan divine.
1666.-Jose.ru BROWN. second son of Wm. B., merch. : he had a fel-
lowship in Cambridge, which he resigned Sept., 1673, and shortly after
receiving a call to settle at Charlestown, d. before ordination, May 19,
1678. He m. Mehitabel, second daughter of Gov. Wm. Brenton, of the
Rhode Island colony.
1670.-NAT.IANIEL HIGGINSON, second son of Rev. Jn. H., of S., but b.
in Guilford, Cr.: returned to England in 1674, and for about seven years
was steward to Lord Wharton and tator to his children. He was in the
service of the Mint, 1681, went, in that of the East India Co., to Fort
St. George, 1683; was of the Council and also its Secretary, and Gov. of
the factory at the Fort. He m. Elizabeth Richards, 1692 returned to
England in 170:t, and d. a merchant in London, 1708. (Felt's Annals,
pp. 349-350).
1685.-PRTER ROCK, probably of S.: This somewhat uncouth name,
though unknown elsewhere, and long extinct in S., occurs often in the ear-
ly Records. John R., one of the Selectmen to whom, in 1686, the Indian
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GRADUATES OF HARVARD ORIGINATING FROM SALEM.
[Continued from page 56.]
1804. - SAMUEL ORNE, eld. son of Capt. Wm. O.; a merch. in S.: m.
Lucinda, dau. of Rev. Bezaleel Howard of Springfield, [H. U. 1781]
May, 1809 ; and d. in Springfield, his residence for some years previous,
July 28, 1830, (43).
JOSEPH E. SPRAGUE, eld. son of Dr. Wm. Stearns [H. U.
1776] att'y-at-law, appointed Cl. of the Crs. 1811, Post-master of S.,
1815, displaced in 1829, and the next year succeeded as Sheriff of Essex,
Baily Bartlett, Esq., of Haverhill. He m. the dau'rs. of the latter, (1 &
2) Eliza and Sarah L. Bartlett.
1805. - EBENEZER HUNT BECKFORD, son of E. B. Esq.; within a
few years from College, his mind incurred permanent alienation, and he
has from that time been resident, under charge, in Andover, south parish
- unm.
1806. - BENJAMIN BINNEY O&GOOD, son of Dr. Jos. O.: he was
placed by his friends, with a view to his more regular life, in the Marine
corps of the U. S. Navy, and d. unm. - on board the U. S. ship
Washington, Jan. 1818.
1807. - Jonn GLEN KING, second son of James K., Esq.; like many
others of his own and the succeeding class, he left college in May, 1807,
the period of what is known as the grand Commons rebellion," but re-
ceived a degree in 1818 couns. at law in S. also a Senator from Essex,
of the Exec. Council, and first Pres. of the City Council of S. He in.
Susan, dau. of Major Fred. Gilman, of Gloucester.
NATHANIEL WEST, eld. son of Capt. N. W. for a while merch.
in S. : in. Mary, eld. dau. of Capt. Henry White, of Beverly, Aug., 1811;
removed to Indianopolis in 1835. from which he was a delegate to the
State Assembly in 1842; and d. in S., while visiting his father, of a linger-
ing disease (cancer in the stomach,) Sept. 7, 1843 (55).
1808. -HENRY PEIRCE, youngest son of Jerathm. P.: for a short period
in the practice of law in S., but now for many years a Clerk in the State
Bank. Boston; m. within a few years, m. Cath. Calista Ainsworth, of
Roxhury.
(1809.) FRANCIS CALLEY GRAY, third son of Hon. Wm. G.: entered
the profession of law, with which, however, his connection was short and
slight: a gent. and man of letters and from 1826, for ten years a Fellow
of the corporation of H.U. Unm.
18113 JONATHAN PEELE DABNEY, only son of John D., Post-master:
student in theology, and for a few years prencher compiler or editor of
various works, 1821 resident from 1820, at intervals in Andover,
Cambridge or Boston. Unm.
SAMUEL CALLKY GRAY) eld. son of S. G., Esq., (afterwards of
Medford): merch. in Boston, and of late years, Pres. of the Atlas Bank;
m. Elizabeth, dau. of Jos. White, jr., July, 1829, (who deceased Apr.,
1842) and d. early in Nov. 1849.
grag
JOHN CHIPMAN GRAY fourth son of Hon. Wm. G.: gent. of
J.C.
leisure and letters: Orator of the P. B. K. Society, and frequent contrib-
utor to the N. A. Review : and for more than twenty years, with scarcely
an interval. Repr., Senator (from Suffolk), or of the Council. He m.
Elizabeth, dau. of Sam'l P. Gardiner, of B., May, 1820,
ROBERT HAWKINS OSGOOD, son of Capt. John O.: a merch
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Notz: F.C. gray Vice President of Boston Athenace m as 1826-1832,
President 1833-36 Overlap 16 T.W.Ward
Treasurer 1828-36.
FRANCIS CALLEY GRAY
AND ART COLLECTING FOR AMERICA
MARJORIE B. COHN
Published by the Harvard University Art Museums
on the occasion of the 350th anniversary of
the founding of Harvard College
Cambridge, Massachusetts
1986
distributed by
Harvard University Press
This book was prepared to accompany the exhibition Fine Art for Harvard: The Gray
For my parents
Collection of Engravings Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, September
2 - November 2, 1986
Manson and Marjorie Allen Benedict
The exhibition was organized by Marjorie B. Cohn
The book was produced by the Publications Department, Harvard University Art
Museums
Peter L. Walsh, director of publications
Designed by Peter L. Walsh and Marjorie B. Cohn
Typeset by Eastern Composition, Inc., Cambridge, MA
Printed by Halliday Lithograph, Braintree, MA
This publication has been supported by generous contributions from Francis C. Gray,
Jr., the Philip and Lynn Straus Foundation, State Street Bank and Trust Company, and
several anonymous donors.
Copyright © 1986 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College
Permission to reproduce any portion of this book must be obtained, in writing, from
the Harvard University Art Museums
ISBN: 0-916724-60-3
Library of Congress Catalogue Number: 86-81910
Frontispiece. Francis Calley Gray. John Adams Whipple, photograph (from a damaged
negative), c.1855. Harvard Art Museums (Fogg Art Museum), gift of William Gray from
the Francis Calley Gray Collection of Engravings, G5753.
&
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
1
I
Growing Up
A Salem Boyhood
11
Harvard College
17
Crises Abroad and at Home
22
Russia and Paris
25
Monticello
38
Law and Oratory
41
II
Natural History
Local Beginnings
47
Animal, Vegetable, Mineral, and Art
54
The Value of the Visual
65
Collector Friends
67
A Visual Memory
70
III
Public Service
Art for the People
73
Harvard Reformed
80
Politics
87
Prison Discipline
89
Withdrawal
97
IV
The Grand Tour
Literary Prelude
101
Artistic Boston
103
Parisian Overture
105
Patronage
116
Raphael
123
Aesthetic Tourists
132
V
Private Life
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Photographer and Poet
138
Historian
142
Brahmin Society
149
Public Debate
157
For as long as the Gray Collection of Engravings has been
Financial Debacle
160
sibility as of Works of Art on Paper at the Art
The Whig Retreat
164
I was this Gray who owned all the prints that
have wondered, Conservator "Who Fogg my Muscum, respon-
Scientific Philanthropy
167
I like best!" Finally, about four years ago, I decided to find out, and this
book is the result. What I learned has made me appreciate the achievement
VI
Print Collecting
of Francis Calley Gray all the more, and the process of learning has also
Lost Prints
176
given me a new appreciation for the knowledge and kindness of curators,
The New Nation Collects
182
librarians, scholars, print enthusiasts, and friends of every stripe. Because
Ornaments and Curiosities
188
of the variety of interests of the subject of this biography, I have consulted
Portrait Prints
192
experts in fields as various as sea-serpents and Greek poetry. All have
Prints by Lot and Lottery
194
The Triumph of Engraving
their contributions.
willingly assisted me, and I should like here gratefully to acknowledge
202
The Conservative Connoisseur
219
My first debt, which precedes my acquaintance with the Gray
Collection, is to my grandfather, C. Harry Benedict, who gave me $150
VII
The Gray Collection of Engravings
on my twentieth birthday with the request that I buy for myself something
American Collecting at Mid-Century
238
that would last. I purchased two prints. He could not have disapproved,
A National Collection Lost
240
for the next year he repeated the gift and the stipulation. My second debt
Harvard's Welcome
244
is to my professor, Jakob Rosenberg, who from my twenty-first year until
Prints for the Public
252
his death guided my choice of prints. These two gentlemen of the old
A Museum Collection
257
school of severe discriminations set a standard which has allowed me to
realize what an exceptional accomplishment it was to accumulate in the
Appendix
267
United States, prior to the Civil War, a great assemblage of old-master
prints and fine engraved reproductions of paintings: the Gray Collection
Notes
269
of Engravings.
Among the museum curators who have assisted me, I should like
Index
331
to thank first the present Curator of the Gray Collection, Henri Zerner,
who has supported my project for an exhibition and associated publication
from the beginning. Also exceptionally helpful have been staff members
of the Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs at the Muscum
of Fine Arts, Boston, whose archives contain many references to the
sojourn of the Gray Collection in Boston in the late nineteenth century.
At other institutions, Helena Wright, Curator of Graphic Arts at the
National Museum of American History, and Georgia Bumgardner,
Curator of Graphic Arts at the American Antiquarian Society, have been
CALLEY GRAI
XI
especially solicitous for my research interests. Curatorial staffs of the
Andrea Maier, Victoria Sanger, Lisa Beth Schneider, Ann Ward, Julie Won.
Library of Congress and the Baltimore Museum of Art have likewise been
At the Harvard University Art Museums, staff members past and
most kind in their assistance.
present have facilitated my combined project for an exhibition and pub-
Among archives and libraries, I have been especially fortunate in my
lication. Included among these are Jonathan Bober, Edgar Peters Bowron,
associates here at Harvard, at the Fogg Museum Archives, the University
James Cuno, Maureen Donovan, Lisa Flannagan, Landon Hall, Caroline
Archives, the Reading Room and the Departments of Printing and Graphic
Jones, Mary Rose Maybank, Jane Montgomery, Phoebe Peebles, John
Arts and of Manuscripts at the Houghton Library, the Library of the
Rosenfield, Robert Rotner, Seymour Slive, Rick Stafford, and Miriam
Museum of Comparative Zoology, and the Baker Library of the Harvard
Stewart; many others have also aided me. Peter Walsh, as editor and
Business School. In Boston, curators, librarians, and archivists at the
production manager of this publication, has been of invaluable assitance
Boston Athenaeum, the Boston Public Library, the Massachusetts
at every step. Karen Motylewski has also expertly edited the entire
Historical Society, the Society for the Preservation of New England
manuscript. Those with whom I have worked most closely in the
Antiquities, the Bank of New England, the Museum of Science, the
Conservation Department, Nancy Purinton, Pia de Santis, Reba Fishman,
Somerset Club, and the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts assisted me
Annette Manick, and especially Craigen Bowen and Barrie Goshko, have
in every way. Further afield, staff members at the Cambridge Historical
been indulgent toward my avocation as a historian, as well as serving
Commission, the Brookline Historical Commission, the Essex Institute,
in their professional capacity to put the prints into the most handsome
the Phillips Library of the Peabody Museum, Salem, the Pilgrim Society,
state possible.
the American Antiquarian Society, the Worcester State Hospital, the
A number of persons and institutions have contributed financially
Dartmouth College Library, the Redwood Library, the Grolier Club, the
toward this publication. Several wish to remain anonymous, and SO I can
Manuscript Department of the New York Public Library, the Smithsonian
only generally indicate my profound debt of gratitude to them. Less shy
Institution Archives, and several archives in East and West Sussex, England,
donors have been Francis Calley Gray, Jr., and the Publications Fund of
have also facilitated my research in documents in their care.
the Harvard University Art Museums, whom I thank with all my heart.
Many individuals, certainly more than I can name, have given me
They offered their support very early in my research, and their faith in
invaluable information and assistance. First among these is Francis Calley
its eventual success has sustained me to the end. In the end, when funds
Gray, Jr., who, though he must have been astonished to hear from a perfect
ran low, the project received welcome and generous additional support
stranger who was rustling through his family's history, has enthusiastically
from the Philip and Lynn Straus Foundation and State Street Bank and
provided facts, documents and, more important, confident good cheer.
Trust Company.
Other members of the Gray family, notably Nancy Parker, John Chipman
Finally I must thank three friends for particular assistance. First,
Gray, and Jeffrey Gray, have given me essential assistance. Other indi-
Marny Solomon, who has encouraged me from the beginning, especially
viduals to whom I owe thanks for their special expertise include Caroline
when I needed a sympathetic and intelligent reader for an early draft of
Hickman, Sara Lytle, Jan Seidler, and David Tatham. Also more helpful
my manuscript. Second, Andrea Maier, who encountered Francis Calley
than they know, for their kindnesses came at particularly telling moments,
Gray as an classroom assignment and who became my indefatigable
have been friends: Louise T. Ambler, David P. Becker, James Bergquist,
research assistant. Third, Daniel Bell, a long-time print afficionado and
Margaret D. Carroll, Charles C. Cunningham, Virginia Deknatel, E. Hope
friend, whose accomplishments as a scholar and talents as an editor were
Cushing, Mason Hammond, John P. Harrison, Robert M. Light, Bettina
willingly volunteered in an enterprise which must at times have seemed
A. Norton, John O'Brian, Harley Preston, and Martha R. Severens, and
endless. That it has finally come to a conclusion in this publication is
Philip Straus.
a testimony to his patience with an amateur author, as well as his loyalty
In spring 1985, I gave a tutorial within the Harvard College curric-
to ideals of cultural history. If this book reflects even a little my admiration
ulum which attracted several dilligent scholars to my research. Each made
for his standards of perceptive scholarship, it will be a worthy
substantial contributions. Although some are cited in individual references,
accomplishment.
I should like here to thank all of them: Dennis Crowley, Charles Fulton,
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Letter to Governor Lincoln, in relation to Harvard university.
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the hundredth anniversary of the birth of George Washington.
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An oration, pronounced July 4, 1818, at the request of the inhabitants of tt
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Remarks on the early laws of Massachusetts Bay, with the Code adopted
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1641, and called The body of liberties, now first printed
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Catalogue of the collection of engravings bequeathed to Harvard college b
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by Francis Calley Gray; Louis Thies; Fogg Art Museum. Gray Collection of
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Publisher: Cambridge, Welch, Bigelow, and Company, printers to the University, 1869.
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Thomas Jefferson in 1814 being an account of a visit to Monticello, Virgini
by Francis Calley Gray; Henry Sherburne Rowe
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Annual report to the board of trustees of the Massachusetts General Hosp
the committee of the trustees of the Massachusetts General Hospital
respectfully submit the annexed reports, shewing the condition of the Gen
Hospital in McLean Street, Boston, for the year 1835, and that of the McLe
Asylum for the Insane, in Charlestown, since May last, when the present
superintendent of that institution entered on the duties of his office : by orc
of the committee, F.C. Gray, chairman, January 27, 1836.
by Francis Calley Gray; Gamaliel Bradford; Thomas G Lee; James Loring;
Massachusetts General Hospital.
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American religious charities : extract from a letter to Governor Lincoln, froi
Mr. F.C. Gray, in relation to Harvard University
by Francis Calley Gray
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Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1837?]
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Poem spoken at Cambridge : before the Phi Beta Kappa society of Harvar
University, August 27, 1840.
by Francis Calley Gray; Phi Beta Kappa. Massachusetts Alpha (Harvard
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Oration before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Brown University, Providenc
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1790 - 1856