He was an 1862 graduate of Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts. He received his medical degree from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1871 and practiced medicine with his father. He also practiced medicine in Paris, Nice, and Geneva.
After his sophomore year, Gray left Williams in order to study in Germany during the 1860-1861 academic year. While Gray attempted to concentrate on his coursework at the University of Heidelberg, the United States moved closer to Civil War as the Southern States began to secede from the union. By the end of Gray’s junior year, in the spring of 1861, Confederate forces had fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina, marking the start of the war. As a result, Gray decided to put his college career on hold; he left the University of Heidelberg without finishing his degree and returned to New York in order to enlist in the Union Army.
He was stationed during the Civil War in New Orleans. He was a Captain in 20th New York Infantry; Major in the Asst. Adjutant General's volunteers (Gen. Edward Richard Sprigg Canby).
Fought at Antietam and at Pfaff's gave Walt Whitman a fearful account of the battlefield at half past 9 the night following the battle.
He earned a Bachelor of Science from the Sorbonne in Paris and, on November 19, 1881, he received the Faculty of Medicine (M.D. First Class) of Montpellier, France” (Blalock 56).
When Dr. John F. S. Gray returned to the United States after several years of living in Italy, France, and Switzerland, he went to New York City but eventually made his way westward to California. He married his second wife, Frances, on February 1, 1883 and the two moved between New York and California over the next few years. He was elected president of the Point Loma Lodge Theoscophy Society of San Diego in 1890, but his declining health and medical research prompted his final move to St. Clair Springs, Michigan. Gray died in that town in 1891 from Bright’s Disease of the kidneys at the age of sixty-one.
After his sophomore year, Gray left Williams in order to study in Germany during the 1860-1861 academic year. While Gray attempted to concentrate on his coursework at the University of Heidelberg, the United States moved closer to Civil War as the Southern States began to secede from the union. By the end of Gray’s junior year, in the spring of 1861, Confederate forces had fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina, marking the start of the war. As a result, Gray decided to put his college career on hold; he left the University of Heidelberg without finishing his degree and returned to New York in order to enlist in the Union Army.
He was stationed during the Civil War in New Orleans. He was a Captain in 20th New York Infantry; Major in the Asst. Adjutant General's volunteers (Gen. Edward Richard Sprigg Canby).
Fought at Antietam and at Pfaff's gave Walt Whitman a fearful account of the battlefield at half past 9 the night following the battle.
He earned a Bachelor of Science from the Sorbonne in Paris and, on November 19, 1881, he received the Faculty of Medicine (M.D. First Class) of Montpellier, France” (Blalock 56).
When Dr. John F. S. Gray returned to the United States after several years of living in Italy, France, and Switzerland, he went to New York City but eventually made his way westward to California. He married his second wife, Frances, on February 1, 1883 and the two moved between New York and California over the next few years. He was elected president of the Point Loma Lodge Theoscophy Society of San Diego in 1890, but his declining health and medical research prompted his final move to St. Clair Springs, Michigan. Gray died in that town in 1891 from Bright’s Disease of the kidneys at the age of sixty-one.
He was an 1862 graduate of Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts. He received his medical degree from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1871 and practiced medicine with his father. He also practiced medicine in Paris, Nice, and Geneva.
After his sophomore year, Gray left Williams in order to study in Germany during the 1860-1861 academic year. While Gray attempted to concentrate on his coursework at the University of Heidelberg, the United States moved closer to Civil War as the Southern States began to secede from the union. By the end of Gray’s junior year, in the spring of 1861, Confederate forces had fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina, marking the start of the war. As a result, Gray decided to put his college career on hold; he left the University of Heidelberg without finishing his degree and returned to New York in order to enlist in the Union Army.
He was stationed during the Civil War in New Orleans. He was a Captain in 20th New York Infantry; Major in the Asst. Adjutant General's volunteers (Gen. Edward Richard Sprigg Canby).
Fought at Antietam and at Pfaff's gave Walt Whitman a fearful account of the battlefield at half past 9 the night following the battle.
He earned a Bachelor of Science from the Sorbonne in Paris and, on November 19, 1881, he received the Faculty of Medicine (M.D. First Class) of Montpellier, France” (Blalock 56).
When Dr. John F. S. Gray returned to the United States after several years of living in Italy, France, and Switzerland, he went to New York City but eventually made his way westward to California. He married his second wife, Frances, on February 1, 1883 and the two moved between New York and California over the next few years. He was elected president of the Point Loma Lodge Theoscophy Society of San Diego in 1890, but his declining health and medical research prompted his final move to St. Clair Springs, Michigan. Gray died in that town in 1891 from Bright’s Disease of the kidneys at the age of sixty-one.
After his sophomore year, Gray left Williams in order to study in Germany during the 1860-1861 academic year. While Gray attempted to concentrate on his coursework at the University of Heidelberg, the United States moved closer to Civil War as the Southern States began to secede from the union. By the end of Gray’s junior year, in the spring of 1861, Confederate forces had fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina, marking the start of the war. As a result, Gray decided to put his college career on hold; he left the University of Heidelberg without finishing his degree and returned to New York in order to enlist in the Union Army.
He was stationed during the Civil War in New Orleans. He was a Captain in 20th New York Infantry; Major in the Asst. Adjutant General's volunteers (Gen. Edward Richard Sprigg Canby).
Fought at Antietam and at Pfaff's gave Walt Whitman a fearful account of the battlefield at half past 9 the night following the battle.
He earned a Bachelor of Science from the Sorbonne in Paris and, on November 19, 1881, he received the Faculty of Medicine (M.D. First Class) of Montpellier, France” (Blalock 56).
When Dr. John F. S. Gray returned to the United States after several years of living in Italy, France, and Switzerland, he went to New York City but eventually made his way westward to California. He married his second wife, Frances, on February 1, 1883 and the two moved between New York and California over the next few years. He was elected president of the Point Loma Lodge Theoscophy Society of San Diego in 1890, but his declining health and medical research prompted his final move to St. Clair Springs, Michigan. Gray died in that town in 1891 from Bright’s Disease of the kidneys at the age of sixty-one.
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