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John Gray
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Gray, John Chipman, 1839-1915, American lawyer and teacher, b. Brighton, Mass. A graduate of Harvard Law School (1861), he served in the Civil War and then entered law practice in Boston; in 1869 he began teaching at Harvard Law School. He continued both practice and teaching until the last years of his life and was Royall professor at Harvard from 1883 until 1913. A leading advocate of the case system of teaching law, he was a recognized authority in both England and the United States on the law of real property. His best-known work is The Nature and Sources of the Law (1909).
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John Chipman Gray was born July 14, 1839, in Brighton, Massachusetts. He attended Harvard University and earned a bachelor of arts degree in 1859 and a bachelor of laws degree in 1861. He also received honorary doctor of laws degrees from Yale University in 1894 and Harvard in 1895.
After his admission to the bar in 1862, Gray served a tour of military duty in the Civil War before establishing his legal practice in Boston in 1865. Four years later, he became a member of the faculty of the Harvard Law School, serving as a lecturer of law from 1869 to 1871, as a law professor from 1875 to 1883, and as a Royall professor of law from 1883 to 1913. His specialty was real property law, and he favored the case method of presentation of legal principles.
As an author, Gray wrote several publications but his most noteworthy is The Nature and Sources of the Law (1909). Gray died June 28, 1915, in Boston.
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John Gray (January 6, 1764 – March 29, 1868) was one of the candidates for last surviving U.S. veteran of the American Revolutionary War. He was advertised as such by journalist James Dazell and as of 1876 was believed by the Pension Office of the U.S. Department of the Interior to be the last surviving veteran.
His claim to the "last surviving veteran" of the War depends primarily on the failure of his competitors Daniel F. Bakeman and George Fruits, who died a year, and several years, after him. Bakeman and Gray had been granted pensions, by special act of the U.S. Congress (on February 14, 1867, retroactive to June 1, 1866). The special act was required because the two had not previously applied for pensions or service land grants and Bakeman was unable to prove his service; Gray, while able to prove his service, had only served six months; Fruits had never had any pension.
Gray was born on Mount Vernon plantation, home of George Washington, "hero of the Revolution." His father fought in the war and was killed in the Battle of White Plains. Gray joined at age 16 in 1780, and was eventually present at the Battle of Yorktown. After the war he moved to the Northwest Territory, and lived out most of his life in Noble County, Ohio. He had three wives during his life and fathered at least four children. He died at age 104 years, 2 months, 23 days.
A memorial to Gray is located along State Route 821 in Noble County's Noble Township.
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