Souvenir Edition, The Williamstown Courier, Williamstown, Ky, May 30, 1901,
reprinted September 19, 1981 by the Grant County KY Historical Society.
[Grant Co.]

MARCUS De LAFAYETTE GRAY was born in Grant County on the 20th day of
November, 1853.  In his veins flows the blood of English, Scotch, Irish and
French ancestors.  He is the oldest of eight children, six boys and two
girls, born to Thomas and Martha (De Jarnette) Gray.  "Mark" as he is best
known, lived with his father's family in Grant County until 1866, when the
family removed to Owen County.  The young and ambitious boy grew up on his
father's farm, securing such education as he could at the district schools,
working on the farm in summer and attending school in winter.  In 1872 he
became a student of the Owenton High School, then under the management of
the Honorable Thomas B. Gordon.  When that eminent education left Owenton
for larger fields of labor Mark matriculated in Harrisburg Academy, then
under the control of that great education, Ed. Porter Thompson, who later
served as State Superintendent of Schools.  This school he was compelled to
leave in a short time on account of ill health, brought on by overtaxing
his strength with labor and study.  This closed his school life as a pupil.
His health improving he taught school under a first-class certificate
until January, 1877, at that time he entered the law office of H. H. Dorman
of Owenton, and on the 7th of April, 1877, he was admitted to the bar and
his life work begun.  However, his active practice did not begin until
1880.  The three intervening years were spent as Deputy Sheriff of Owen
County under his father, who was then the Sheriff.
     In September, 1880, Mr. Gray came to Williamstown and located and
began the practice of law.  He has been a citizen of Williamstown from
that day until this and has been an active practitioner all of the time.
He was nominated by the Democratic part and elected County Attorney of
Grant County in 1882 and was re-elected in 1886 by a largely increased
majority.  At the end of his eight years of public service he left a
record unequaled for ability as prosecutor and fidelity as guardian of the
county's interest.
     Two years later Mr. Gray became a candidate for Comonwealth's
Attorney and won his nomination and election practically without opposition,
and so well did he discharge the duties of his office and intrench himself
in the good graces of the people of his district that at the end of his
term he was renominated and re-elected without opposition, and when his
present term ends, on the first day of January, 1904, he will have served
his judicial district as it Commonwealth's Attorney for eleven years. That
he has made a good official and a vigorous prosecutor is conceded on all
sides.  He is now a prospective Judge for the next term, which will not
begin until his term as Commonwealth's Attorney ends.  In addition to his
political record Mr. Gray has been active in politics and has stumped his
district and the state more than once for the Democratic ticket.  He is an
orator of great ability, whether on the stump speaking for his party or in
the forum pleading the cause of justice, and is a powerful and convincing
advocate.  Mr. Gray served five years as a member of the school board of
Grant County and has always been a friend to education.  He is exceedingly
well read in standard literature had has a vast treasure house of
information and a remarkably retentive memory that makes this knowledge
available at any issue.
     On December 24th, 1883, Mr. Gray was united in marriage to Miss
Teresa Kachelhofer, a native of Berne, Switzerland.  Mrs. Gray is a woman
of much culture and refinement.  Has graduated from some of the best
schools in the South and taught for many years with great success.  Their
union has been a singularly congenial and happy one.  One child, Caroline
Martha, has come to bless with joy and sunshine their home.  She was born
November 30, 1887.  Mark Gray is now in the full zenith of his powers as a
lawyer, prosecutor and man of intellectual ability, and no doubt the
future holds for him much that his worth and character entitles him to win.

Gray DeJarnett Gordon Thompson Dorman Kachelhofer
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Owen-KY Switzerland

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