Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 5th ed., 1887,
Franklin Co.

JOHN T. GRAY was born in Lancaster, Garrard Co., Ky., May 20, 1829, and is
the third son of William and Mary A. (Miller) Gray, natives respectively
of Pennsylvania and Virginia.  William Gray and his brother, Tom, walked
from Lancaster, Penn., to Lancaster, Ky.  William was a shoemaker by trade,
but was in the grocery business for several years and was also a farmer and
stock raiser.  At the age of seventeen, John T. Gray commenced to learn the
carpenter's trade under Joe Carter, at Danville, Ky., served four years and
afterward was a contractor and builder for several years.  In 1853 he
commenced merchandising in Danville; clerked for D. A. Russell for six
years, and was a partner two years; then sold his interest and went into
the business alone in the same city for eight months, and in 1862 moved to
Frankfort, and engaged in merchandising for three years.  He and James
Saffell then bought the Capital Hotel in Frankfort.  Mr. Gray managed the
business four years.  This hotel is the largest in the city, and was
erected at a cost of $143,000.  After retiring from the hotel he bought a
one-third interest in the Frankfort Cotton Mills, and was president of the
firm for one year.  He then drew out and went into the wholesale and retail
grocery and liquor business in Frankfort, with Thomas Rodman, Jr., as
partner, and was successfully engaged in this until 1885.  He was next
employed as business manager of the Kentucky Military Institute and still
holds that position.  He married, January 8, 1861, Miss Mollie Saffell, of
Lawrenceburg, Ky., daughter of James and Martha (Hazlett) Saffell.  Four
children have blessed this union: Carleton S., who graduated with honors,
when young, at the Kentucky Military Institute, and is now employed in
Morris & Bayley's insurance office at Louisville, Ky.; the second child,
James H., graduated from the Kentucky Military Institute, when only
eighteen years of age, and was offered a chair in the institution but
declined and was appointed upon the United States coast survey at the age
of eighteen, and has the position yet with headquarters in Washington,
D. C.; the third son, John T., Jr., is now attending school at the Kentucky
Military Institute; the fourth child, Fannie S., is attending the select
school in Frankfort.  Mr. and Mrs. Gray are members of the Presbyterian
Church and he is a Master Mason.

Gray Miller Carter Russell Saffell Hazlett Rodman Morris Bagley
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Lancaster-Garrard-KY Danville-Boyle-KY Lawrenceburg-Anderson-KY
Louisville-Jefferson-KY PA VA

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