Francis Calley Gray


Francis Calley Gray was a politician from Massachusetts. The son of Elizabeth and William Gray, he graduated Harvard University and went on to be John Quincy Adams's private secretary, a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and president of the Boston Athenæum. Gray was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1819, and a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1820. When he died, he left many gifts to Harvard, including his collection of 3,000 engravings and $50,000 to be put towards a museum of comparative zoology.
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He died in 1856 and is buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery, his tomb guarded by a sleeping dog.