Francis Calley Gray
Francis Calley Gray (September 19, 1790 – December 29, 1856) was a politician from Massachusetts, United States. He was the son of Elizabeth and William Gray, he graduated Harvard University (1809) and went on to be John Quincy Adams's private secretary, a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and president of the Boston Athenæum. Gray was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1819,[1] and a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1820.[2] Gray was a member of Harvard Overseers.[3] When he died, he left many gifts to Harvard, including his collection of 3,000 engravings and $50,000 (equivalent to $1٬293٬333 today) to be put towards a museum of comparative zoology.[4]
He died in 1856 and is buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery, his tomb guarded by a sleeping dog.
References
- ^ "Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter B" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved سبتمبر 13, 2016.
- ^ American Antiquarian Society Members Directory
- ^ Marjorie B. Cohn, Francis Calley Gray and an early Boston Daguerreotype, History of Photography (1985)
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- Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Harvard University alumni
- Members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
- Burials at Mount Auburn Cemetery
- 19th-century members of the Massachusetts General Court
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