Death of an Old Physician

Dr. William K. Gray, the second eldest physician in the Oranges, died yesterday at the home of his son, Dr. Richardson Gray, on Orange street, East Orange, after an illness of two weeks. Death was caused by a complication of diseases. Dr. Gray has practised medicine in East Orange for the past twenty-three years. He was born in Whippany, N. J., seventy-six years ago, and after receiving a common school education entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons, from which he was graduated forty years ago. Until he came to East Orange he devoted himself to his profession in New York City, and there he married Miss Fanny Grannis in 1845. He is survived by a widow, a daughter, Mrs. Roderick M. Sanger, of East Orange, and three sons, Rev. William R. Gray, pastor of a Methodist church in Dakota City, Neb.; Dr. Richardson Gray, of East Orange, and Dr. Thomas N. Gray, who is treasurer of a bicycle corporation in Bridgeport, Conn. The funeral services will be held at the New Church, (Swedenborgian), Orange, to-morrow afternoon at 3 o'clock.

Source: Newark Evening News, Wednesday, July 8, 1896, Page 2:

GRAY--At East Orange, July 7, 1896, Dr. William K. Gray, aged 76 years. Friends are invited to attend funeral services on Thursday, July 9, at 3 P. M. at the Church of the New Jerusalem, on Essex avenue, Orange. Interment in Rosedale Cemetery. [East Orange]

Source: Newark Evening News, Wednesday, July 8, 1896, Page 3

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