Sunday, November 05, 2006

Oregon Republican League "Bridging the Generations Project 400": ORL John Gray Family

Oregon Republican League "Bridging the Generations Project 400": ORL John Gray Family

Republican League Register of Oregon, The Register Publishing Company, 1896, page 216.

GRAY, HON. JOHN H. D., County Judge of Clatsop County, was born at Lapwai, Idaho, March 20, 1839. Most of his boyhood was passed at Astoria. He graduated from the Forest Grove University in 1857. In 1858 he went to British Columbia and engaged in steam boating on Fraser River. In 1861 he was one of two survivors when the steamer Cariboo blew up near Victoria. He than began steamboating on the Upper Columbia and Snake rivers, and followed that business for many years, making Astoria his home since 1868. He has been extremely active in promoting enterprises for the building up of Astoria and the opening of the Columbia river and improvement of its mouth. Politically he is a staunch Republican, and has been in the councils of the party for many years. In 1886 he was elected to the state senate, and served two terms. He is now County Judge of Clatsop County.

Descendants of John Henry Dix GRAY

1 John Henry Dix GRAY b: 20 Mar 1839 in Idaho d: 26 Oct 1902 in Oregon
.. +Laura Ward BELL b: 25 Apr 1848 in Missouri d: 06 Jun 1931
........ 2 Belle Augusta (Gussie) GRAY b: 02 Oct 1870 in Oregon d: 1930 in Oregon
............ +John FOX m: 22 Jan 1900
........ 2 Henry Dix (Harry) GRAY b: 11 Dec 1873 in Astoria, Oregon d: 04 May 1917 in Pendleton, OR
........ 2 Herbert GRAY b: 28 Oct 1874 in Astoria, Oregon d: 17 Oct 1878 in Astoria, Oregon
........ 2 Laura GRAY b: 17 Dec 1876 in Astoria, Oregon d: 30 May 1903 in Astoria, Oregon
............ +Robert WRIGHT m: 03 Sep 1901
........ 2 John William (Will) GRAY b: 04 Jan 1878 in Astoria, Oregon
............ +Opal S. b: 1893 in Wisconsin
................... 3 George Schaeffer GRAY b: 25 Oct 1914 in Washington
................... 3 Nancy B. GRAY b: 1919 in Washington
........ 2 Charles Edward GRAY b: 17 Dec 1880 in Astoria, Oregon d: May 1945
............ +Gertrude B. b: 1882 in Oregon
................... 3 Arvilla GRAY b: 1910 in Oregon
........ 2 Mary Alice GRAY b: 13 Apr 1882 in Astoria, Oregon
............ +George Arthur HARTMAN b: 21 Apr 1878 in Oregon m: 06 Jul 1904 d: 18 Jul 1952 in Alameda, CA
........ 2 Sarah Blanche GRAY b: 01 Nov 1883 in Astoria, Oregon d: 01 Jan 1923
............ +Allen Reid JOBES b: 15 Jun 1880 m: 24 May 1915 in Portland, Ore d: 23 Nov 1921
................... 3 Esther Allen JOBES b: 25 Mar 1917 in Portland, Ore d: 02 Nov 1997 in John Muir Hosp Walnut Creek, Ca
....................... +Phillip HOLMES b: 29 Nov 1906 in Salem, Ore m: 10 Jun 1939 d: 13 May 1977
............................. 4 Living HOLMES
................................. +Don Ross VOYLES b: 29 Dec 1943 in Dayton Oh d: 29 Sep 1991 in Castro Valley, CA
............................. 4 Living HOLMES
................................. +Living DURUZ
........................................ 5 Living HOLMES
........................................ 5 Living HOLMES
........................................ 5 Living HOLMES
........ 2 Carolyn Louise GRAY b: 23 Nov 1885 in Astoria, Oregon

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