Sacramento County
Biographies
FRANK E. GRAY
FRANK E. GRAY.--An expert plasterer who is an experienced contractor, is Frank E.
Gray, of 3660 First Avenue, Sacramento,
the city in which he was born on April 15, 1891. His father, George Gray, came out to California
by way of the Horn, in 1856, while his mother, who was Miss Ida Steele,
followed in 1861, accompanying her parents across the Kit Carson trail; and at Oleta they were married.
Grandmother Lucas is still active at the age of eighty-five. Mr. Gray mined for a while, and then he
became a railroad conductor on the Southern Pacific; and when he died, full of
honors and rich in friends, in 1909, he was the oldest railroad man on his
division.
Frank
Gray attended the public grammar school, and then went for a short time to the
high school, and when old enough to do so, he learned the plasterer’s trade,
which he has followed ever since. From
the beginning, he made a record for good, faithful work; and by 1914 he was
able to establish himself in business, and ever since he has continued on his
own responsibility. He has plastered all
the new schoolhouses except three in Sacramento, the County
Hospital buildings, the Mull
Building, the Sutter
Hospital, and many of the finest
residences; and to carry on this work, he has employed ten men regularly, and sometimes more. He belongs to the Builders’ Exchange, and is
a Republican.
Mrs.
Gray was Miss Hannah F. Rhoden before her marriage,
and she came from Minnesota, although she was reared in Sacramento. Four children have been born of this
fortunate union; and they are Elmer, Marion, Jack and Robert. Though a very busy man, Mr. Gray still finds
time to enjoy an occasional outing, and his chief hobbies are hunting and
fishing. Mr. Gray is ever ready to give
of his time and means for the moral, civic, and material upbuilding
of his native city.
Transcribed
by Priscilla J. Delventhal.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History
of Sacramento County, California With Biographical
Sketches, Page 589. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA.
1923.
© 2007 P. J. Delventhal.