[2] In January 1888, he was appointed by Governor David B. Hill to the New York Court of Appeals to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Charles A.

[7] In November 1888, he was elected on the Democratic ticket to a full fourteen-year term, was re-elected in 1902, and remained on the bench until the end of 1913 when he reached the constitutional age limit of 70 years.

[2] He was a member of the National Academy of Design, the American Museum of Natural History, the New-York Historical Society, the New York State Bar Association, and the Metropolitan Club.

[1] Gray died from "paralysis" and pneumonia on June 28, 1915, while spending the summer vacation at the Pinard cottage in Newport, Rhode Island.

[2] Through his son Albert, he was a grandfather of Marian Stuyvesant Gray (who married Edward Fiedler Livingston Bruen in 1942).

[2] Through his eldest daughter Edith, he was a grandfather of Robert R. Hitt (who married Evelyn Bigelow Clark in 1932).