William Cunningham Gray

William Cunningham Gray (October 17, 1830 - 1901) was a newspaper publisher, editor, and columnist in the United States. He published and edited the Presbyterian Church publication The Interior.[1] He wrote a column for it titled "Campfire Musings" featuring his recollections of rural Wisconsin.[2] He also wrote about Booker T. Washington and Tuskegee Institute in Alabama and was an advocate for civil rights. He also wrote about Alaska.[3]

He was born on the family farm in Butler County, Ohio.[4] He studied at Farmers' College and became a lawyer. He lived in Chicago. University of Wooster conferred him with an honorary degree.[5] Under his guidance The Interior became very influential.[6]

Charles C. Miller designed his home.[4] Lawton S. Parker painted a portrait of him in 1892.[4]

He married and had a daughter, Anna Catherine Gray Purcell.[7][8] William Gray Purcell was his grandson.[2]

He wrote a book about Keweenaw where he owned land.[9]

Publishings
  • Life of Abraham Lincoln. For the young man and the Sabbath school (1867)
  • Keweenaw: An early story of the Copper Country (1884)[9]
  • Camp-fire musings, life and good times in the woods (1894)[10]
  • Musings by camp-fire and wayside (1902)[11] illustrated with his photographs[12]

References
  1. "DEATH LIST OF A DAY.; William C. Gray". The New York Times. September 30, 1901 – via NYTimes.com.
  2. Purcell, William Gray (January 1967). St. Croix Trail Country: Recollections of Wisconsin. U of Minnesota Press. ISBN 9780816658541.
  3. "The Christian Advocate". 1902.
  4. "Purcell and Elmslie, Architects". organica.org.
  5. "The Scotch-Irish in America: Proceedings of the Scotch-Irish Congress". 1900.
  6. WHITE, W. P. (1919). "The Evolution of a Presbyterian Religious Journal". Journal of the Presbyterian Historical Society (1901-1930). 10 (1): 36–41. JSTOR 23323279 – via JSTOR.
  7. Carter, Heath W. (2015). Union Made: Working People and the Rise of Social Christianity in Chicago. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-938595-9.
  8. Legler, Dixie; Guerrero, Dixie Legler (5 October 2006). At Home on the Prairie: The Houses of Purcell & Elmslie. Chronicle Books. ISBN 9780811850414.
  9. Gray, William (5 July 2011). Keweenaw: An Early Story of the Copper Country - the Original 1884 Text. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. ISBN 9781463688097.
  10. "Gray, William Cunningham, 1830-1901 | The Online Books Page". onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu.
  11. Gray, William Cunningham (1902). "Musings by Camp-fire and Wayside".
  12. "Presbyterian Banner". 1902.
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