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Submitted: 8/9/06 • Approved: 1/19/09 • Last Updated: 11/3/15 • R6695-G0-S3
James M. Gray, the third president of Moody Bible Institute, was born in the city of New York on 11 May 1851. His father Hugh Gray had eight children and died shortly after James was born. Later he was raised by his eldest brother. After college, Dr. Gray entered into formal training in the Protestant Episcopal Church for a ministerial career.
Died 21 Sep 1935,
Dr. Gray married Amanda Thorne in 1870. She gave birth to Hugh Barr Gray in 1872, James M. Gray Jr. in 1879, and a son Charles who lived only six months. Unfortunately, Mrs. Gray died in childbirth in 1875 while giving birth to their fifth child who did not survive either. Later Dr. Gray married Susan G. Gray who bore him Curtis Rockwell Gray in 1883 and Phillip Martin Gray in 1891. Mrs. Gray was a woman of high intellect. She served as a faculty member at the Boston Missionary Training School. She also taught courses on Bible Introduction and Christian Evidences.
Susan G. Gray
Contributed on 8/9/06 by oslo22
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