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Horace Gray

Merchant in China Trade/Banker

Centurion, 1866–1888

Born 19 June 1821 in Boston, Massachusetts

Died 18 July 1901 in New York (Manhattan), New York

Buried Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Proposed by George B. Dorr and George Bancroft

Elected 2 June 1866 at age forty-four

Archivist’s Note: Not to be confused with Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court Horace Gray (1828–1902)

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