George Zabriskie Gray (July 14, 1837 – August 4, 1889) was a notable clergyman, educator and theologian of the Episcopal Church in the United States.
[2] In 1858, when he was twenty years old, he graduated from the University of the City of New-York (which gave him an honorary D.D.
in 1876),[3] followed by preparations for the ministry at Alexandria Theological Seminary in Virginia from 1859 until 1861, but due to the U.S. Civil War, the school was relocated to Philadelphia, where he completed his degree.
[5] Gray was the author of several books, including Recognition in the World to Come (1875), Husband and Wife; or, the Theory of Marriage (1885), and The Children's Crusade: An Episode of the Thirteenth Century (1870).
[3] On June 19, 1862, he was married Kate Forrest (1841–1905), with whom he had two sons and a daughter, including:[1] After suffering from Bright's disease for several months, Gray died at the Pavilion Hotel in Sharon Springs, New York where he had been spending the summer on August 4, 1889.