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Dr Patrick Wells Gray

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Dr Patrick Wells Gray

Birth
Sherburne, Chenango County, New York, USA
Death
18 Dec 1865 (aged 59)
Elmira, Chemung County, New York, USA
Burial
Elmira, Chemung County, New York, USA Add to Map
Plot
Lot 76, Section A
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Dr. Patrick Wells Gray, fifth and youngest son of Judge John Gray, was born in Sherburne, N. Y., Nov. 18th, 1806. Removing with his father's family to western New York, in 1816, he afterward studied medicine with Dr. Beebe, in Erie, Pa., and graduating at an allopathic school entered upon the practice of medicine.

Dr. Gray married Amy Wentworth Graves, at Erie, Pa., Sept. 29th, 1830, after which he took up Theology, graduating at Oberlin College, and was ordained and installed in the Presbyterian ministry, at Randolph, Pa. Subsequently he was stationed at Hamburg, N. Y., preaching at these places some five years, after which, in 1842, he resumed the practice of medicine, having, in the meantime, by study and careful investigation, become converted to the Homoeopathic school. At that time he removed to Buffalo, then having a population of twenty or twenty-five thousand. He was the pioneer of Homoeopathy there, and continued the practice of his profession in that city some ten years.

Being afflicted with a throat and bronchial affection which was aggravated by Lake winds. Dr. Gray removed from Buffalo to Elmira, N. Y., in 1852, where he continued in a large and lucrative practice until his decease, Dec. 18, 1865. His wife, Mrs. Amy W. Gray, survived him some three years.
Dr. Patrick Wells Gray, fifth and youngest son of Judge John Gray, was born in Sherburne, N. Y., Nov. 18th, 1806. Removing with his father's family to western New York, in 1816, he afterward studied medicine with Dr. Beebe, in Erie, Pa., and graduating at an allopathic school entered upon the practice of medicine.

Dr. Gray married Amy Wentworth Graves, at Erie, Pa., Sept. 29th, 1830, after which he took up Theology, graduating at Oberlin College, and was ordained and installed in the Presbyterian ministry, at Randolph, Pa. Subsequently he was stationed at Hamburg, N. Y., preaching at these places some five years, after which, in 1842, he resumed the practice of medicine, having, in the meantime, by study and careful investigation, become converted to the Homoeopathic school. At that time he removed to Buffalo, then having a population of twenty or twenty-five thousand. He was the pioneer of Homoeopathy there, and continued the practice of his profession in that city some ten years.

Being afflicted with a throat and bronchial affection which was aggravated by Lake winds. Dr. Gray removed from Buffalo to Elmira, N. Y., in 1852, where he continued in a large and lucrative practice until his decease, Dec. 18, 1865. His wife, Mrs. Amy W. Gray, survived him some three years.


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