My Genealogy Hound

SAMUEL MOOR GRAY, foreman of the boiler department of the Allegheny Valley railroad shops, Verona, is a grandson of Moor Gray, a native of Delaware, who served as a soldier through the Revolution, and was justice of the peace in Dover. The family ancestors were Presbyterians, and probably of Scotch birth. Samuel Moor Gray, son of Moor Gray, married Hannah Wilkinson, a native of Delaware, but of English parentage, and to this couple was born our subject on the 14th of April, 1834, in Wilmington, The father was thrown from an oyster-boat in Delaware bay, being struck by a boom, and drowned, in 1863, aged fifty-one years. Samuel, Jr., was reared in Wilmington, and attended the city schools until he was fifteen years old. At that time he was articled as apprentice in a boiler-shop at Port Richmond, and served five and a half years. He was employed for a time in his native city, and was sixteen years in the Pennsylvania railroad shops at Harrisburg. In 1871 he engaged with the Allegheny Valley railroad, and after six months took charge of the boiler department, filling that position ever since. He is a republican, and the family is associated with the M. E. Church. In October, 1861, Mr. Gray married Mary Ann Koutze, who died eight years later, leaving three children: Samuel Moor, Elizabeth H. and William Lincoln. In 1871 he married Sarah Jane Leister, who is the mother of three children: John, Clara and Francis.