John Davis Gray ’36

JOHN DIED Jan. 15, 1991, in N.Y.C. He was born Mar. 1, 1914, in Blairstown, NJ.

He attended Blair Academy and graduated from the Hill School. At Princeton he majored in English and was a member of Tower Club. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1939.

John's first job lasted 30 years. He started with ConEdison as an attorney in their legal dept., then moved onto the general staff as secretary of the company and served later as treasurer. He took early retirement in 1970, became a partner in the small law firm of his uncleinlaw Watson Washburn. The firm was dissolved on Mr. Washburn's death, and in 1977 he became of counsel at a larger law firm, Whitman and Ransom, until his own death.

He was a member of the Bar Assn. of N.Y. and of the American Bar Assn. He was a member for many years of the University Club and the Princeton Club of N.Y.

He is survived by Mary Washburn Gray, whom he married in 1939; sons Stephen V,'64 and Samuel 0. 168; daughter Pauline G. Briger; and five grandchildren.

John must indeed have been proud to have had three Princeton sons. Regrettably, his youngest son David A.C. '70 died in 1975.

The Class of 1936