Edward Townsend Gray

  Noted events in his life were:

• Residence: Reason for moving to Johnstown PA from Oswego NY. Family lore has it that he took a job to help rebuild Johnstown after the flood in 1889. He had a room at the Lomison's. Prior to that he worked for the forestry service out west. According to his grandmother's obituary, he was in Logan, Indiana in September 1905.

• Occupation: Cambria Steel: Johnstown, Cambria, Pennsylvania. From Obituary.

• Religion: Member of Westmont Presbeterian Church: Johnstown, Cambria, Pennsylvania.

• Occupation: Member of Pennsylvania Society of Professional Engineers: Pennsylvania.

• Service Club: Founding member of Johnstown Lions Club: Johnstown, Cambria, Pennsylvania.

• Education: Graduated from Cornell University as a Civil Engineer, 1901, Ithaca, New York.

• Graduation: OSWEGO DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY Evening, 21 Jun 1901, Oswego Town, Oswego, New York. OSWEGO DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY Evening, June 21,1901.
CORNELL GRADUATES
Three Oswego Young Men Receive Diplomas During the Week.

HAVE RETURNED HOME
Edward T. Gray, of Oswego Center, graduated from the College of Civil Engineering receiving the degree of C. E. He had been one of the hand ball players in the University and won the University championship doubles with one another.

• Book: From Google Book Search, 1901, Cornell, NY. Title: The fire protection of mill buildings
Author: Edward Townsend Gray
Publisher: Cornell University, 1901
Length 118 pages

• Residence: From newspaper article on Thyrza Gray's 100th birthday, 1902, Logan, Indiana.

• Residence: Johnstown City Directory, 1903, Johnstown, Cambria, Pennsylvania. Name: Edward Gray
Residence Year: 1903
Street address: 403 Ebensburg road I2w
Residence Place: Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA
Occupation: Engineer
Publication Title: Johnstown, Pennsylvania, City Directory, 1903

• Residence: Johnstown City Directory, 1905, Johnstown, Cambria, Pennsylvania. Name: Edward J Gray
Residence Year: 1905
Street address: 403 Ebensburg road law IF
Residence Place: Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA
Occupation: Engineer, oh
Publication Title: Johnstown, Pennsylvania, City Directory, 1905

• Residence: Johnstown City Directory, 1907, Johnstown, Cambria, Pennsylvania. Name: Edward T Gray
Residence Year: 1907
Street address: 213 Lincoln St lw
Residence Place: Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA
Occupation: Civil Engineer
Publication Title: Johnstown, Pennsylvania, City Directory, 1907

Note: This is the same address as his future mother in law, Miriam Stewart Lomison. According to my mother, this is how ET and Sarah Jean met. This record would have been collected the previous year before ET and Sarah were married. My father also married his landlord's daughter. See "Robert B. Gray and Mary E. Lynch wedding" at http://www.robertfgray.com/history/Movies/Wedding.html

• Residence: 752 Nepoleon Street, 1910, Johnstown, Cambria, Pennsylvania. From 1910 Census.

He is living with the Lomisons.

• Occupation: Civil Engineer at Steel Mill, 1910, Johnstown, Cambria, Pennsylvania. Listed in census.

• Residence: Johnstown City Directory, 1911, Johnstown, Cambria, Pennsylvania. Name: Edward T Gray
Gender: Male
Residence Year: 1911
Street address: 752 Napoleon 6 W
Residence Place: Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA
Occupation: Civil Engineer
Spouse: Jean Gray
Publication Title: Johnstown, Pennsylvania, City Directory, 1911

• Residence: Johnstown City Directory, 1913, Johnstown, Cambria, Pennsylvania. Name: Edward T Gray
Gender: Male
Residence Year: 1913
Street address: 416 Edgehill Drive Westmont
Residence Place: Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA
Occupation: Civ Engr
Spouse: Sarah J Gray
Publication Title: Johnstown, Pennsylvania, City Directory, 1913

• Residence: Johnstown City Directory, 1915, Johnstown, Cambria, Pennsylvania. Name: Edward T Gray
Gender: Male
Residence Year: 1915
Street address: 126 Tioga Westmont
Residence Place: Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA
Spouse: Sarah J Gray
Publication Title: Johnstown, Pennsylvania, City Directory, 1915

• Residence: Johnstown City Directory, 1918, Johnstown, Cambria, Pennsylvania. Name: Edward T Gray
Gender: Male
Residence Year: 1918
Street address: 126 Tioga Westmont
Residence Place: Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA
Occupation: Air Engr Cambria Steel Company
Spouse: Sarah Gray
Publication Title: Johnstown, Pennsylvania, City Directory, 1918

• Draft Card: From Family Search org, 1918, Cambria, Pennsylvania. Name: Edward Townsend Gray
Event Type: Draft Registration
Event Date: 1917-1918
Event Place: Cambria County no 1, Pennsylvania, United States
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 23 Jul 1880
Birthplace: United States
Nationality: United States
Affiliate Publication Title: World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards
Affiliate Publication Number: M1509
GS Film number: 1877827
Digital Folder Number: 5266936
Image Number: 1379

• Residence: 126 Tioga Street, 8 Jan 1920, Johnstown, Cambria, Pennsylvania. From 1920 Census

Edward T Gray
United States Census, 1920
Name Edward T Gray
Event Type Census
Event Date 1920
Event Place Westmont, Cambria, Pennsylvania, United States
Gender Male
Age 39
Marital Status Married
Race White
Race (Original) White
Can Read Yes
Can Write Yes
Relationship to Head of Household Head
Relationship to Head of Household (Original) Head
Own or Rent Own
Birth Year (Estimated) 1881
Birthplace New York
Father's Birthplace New York
Mother's Birthplace New York
Sheet Letter B
Sheet Number 9

Household Role Gender Age Birthplace
Edward T Gray Head M 39 New York
Sarah J Gray Wife F 46 Pennsylvania
Robert D Gray Son M 7 Pennsylvania

• Residence: Johnstown City Directory, 1920, Johnstown, Cambria, Pennsylvania. Name: Edward T Gray
Residence Year: 1920
Street address: 126 Tioga Westmont
Residence Place: Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA
Occupation: Surveyor
Publication Title: Johnstown, Pennsylvania, City Directory, 1920

• Occupation: Chief Civil Engineer, 1920, Johnstown, Cambria, Pennsylvania. From Census.

• Automobile: 1918 Buick, 1918, Johnstown, Cambria, Pennsylvania. Purchased from Swank's Repository
229 Adams Street

1915-1916 Johnstown City Directory, p. 911

• Residence: Johnstown City Directory, 1922, Johnstown, Cambria, Pennsylvania. Name: Edward T Gray
Gender: Male
Residence Year: 1922
Street address: 126 Tioga Westmont
Residence Place: Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA
Occupation: Civil Engineer Cambria Steel Company
Spouse: Sarah Gray
Publication Title: Johnstown, Pennsylvania, City Directory, 1922

• Occupation: Own Civil Engineering firm with Fred W. Claflin, After 1922, Johnstown, Cambria, Pennsylvania. From Obituary and The Cornell civil engineer, Volumes 31-32
By Cornell University. Association of Civil Engineers

Gray Edward T CE 01
126 Tioga St Johnstown Pa.; Gray & Claflin Engineers

Nothing on E. T. Gray but found the following on Fred W. Calfin.

Fred W. Claflin
Mr. Claflin was born at Hopkinton, Mass., Aug. 8, 1879, and is a son of Winslow Weld and Susan I. (Belknap) Claflin. He attended the public schools of Hopkinton, Mass., was graduated from high school in 1897, and from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1901. He served as instrument man with Alex H. French of Brookline, Mass., doing city engineering work, and from May, 1901, until January, 1905, was with the engineering department of the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad, Boston & Albany Division as surveyor and inspector of construction in charge of separation of grades at Chester, Mass.; Niverville, N. Y. ; East Chatham and Chatham Center, N. Y. He was later in charge of installing block signals between Chicago and Buffalo on the L. S. & M. S. Railroad, and from 1905 until 1906 was associated with F. C. Greene, mining engineer of Cleveland, a special engineer in charge of two large stadium surveys in Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio. He was later connected with the Brilliant (Ohio) Coal Company, and from May, 1906, until October, 1907, was in charge of surveying parties on Stadia and Topographical Surveys for location of Quemahoning dam and pipe line. From January, 1907, until May he was also in charge of surveys and preliminary plans of two water supply schemes in the vicinity of Johnstown. From October, 1907, until January, 1909, he was in charge of surveying and inspection of all construction work in the lower plant of the Cambria Steel Company, including the setting of heavy engines, rebuilding of blast furnaces, building of two condensing systems, erection of blast furnaces, stock bins, etc. From January, 1909, until December, 1913, he was resident engineer and superintendent of construction of Quemahoning Dam and a portion of the pipe line, a $5,000,000 force account work. From December, 1913, until June, 1914, he was superintendent of construction in charge of all forces remodeling No. 5 blast furnace and hot blast stoves, as well as general improvement of the Cambria plant of the Cambria Steel Company of Johnstown. Mr. Claflin suffered a breakdown in health in 1914 and until 1916 was confined in a hospital. From October, 1916, until February, 1917, he was field engineer in charge of all field operations in connection with the Nickel Plate Railroad, elimination of grade crossings, work on the west side of Cleveland. From February, 1917, until September, 1917, he was engineer in charge of erection of 10 six-ton Herault electric blast furnaces at Toronto, Canada, for the British government, this being the largest electric steel plant in the world. From September until November, 1917, he was engineer in charge of the dismantling of the Battelle (Alabama) blast furnace, and loading same on ship at New Orleans for export to India. From November, 1911, until December, 1921, Mr. Claflin was general superintendent of construction of the Tata Iron and Steel Company, Jamshedpur, India, the cost of these improvements amounting to $65,000,000. In December, 1921, Mr. Claflin returned to Johnstown, where he has since been a member of the firm of Gray & Claflin. They are consulting, civil and mining engineers and specialize in sewerage and sewer disposal, water supply and purification, development of town sites, municipal engineering valuations, examinations and reports of mining properties, and the design of industrial and mining plants, highways and bridges.
On January 24, 1914, Mr. Claflin was married to Miss Amelia W. Wertz, the daughter of George M. and Louisa (Glitch) Wertz. Mr. Wertz has served as congressman from this district and as a leader of the Senate at Harrisburg. He resides at Arbutus Park, Cambria County. Mr. and Mrs. Claflin have a daughter, Louisa W., born in February, 1919.
Mr. Claflin is a Republican, a member of the Congregational Church and is identified with the American Society of Civil Engineers, Johnstown Builders' Exchange and Chamber of Commerce.

• Residence: Johnstown City Directory, 1925, Johnstown, Cambria, Pennsylvania. Name: Edward T Gray
Residence Year: 1925
Street address: 126 Erie Westmont
Spouse: Jeanie
Residence Place: Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA
Publication Title: Johnstown, Pennsylvania, City Directory, 1925

• Occupation: Johnstown City Directory, 1925, Johnstown, Cambria, Pennsylvania. Gray and Claflin
Consulting Civil Engineers

• Residence: Johnstown City Directory, 1927, Johnstown, Cambria, Pennsylvania. Name: Edward T Gray
Gender: Male
Residence Year: 1927
Street address: 126 Tioga Westmont
Residence Place: Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA
Occupation: Civil Engineer
Spouse: Sarah J Gray
Publication Title: Johnstown, Pennsylvania, City Directory, 1927

• Occupation: Johnstown City Directory, 1927, Johnstown, Cambria, Pennsylvania. Gray and Claflin
Consulting & Civil Engineers
E T Gray and F W Claflin
607-608 Swank Building
Phone City 1003
See page 87

• Residence: Johnstown City Directory, 1929, Johnstown, Cambria, Pennsylvania. Name: Edward T Gray
Residence Year: 1929
Street address: 1012 Mill Creek rd, Southmont Boro.
Spouse: Jeanie
Occupation: Gray & Claflin
Telephone City: 1189
Residence Place: Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA
Publication Title: Johnstown, Pennsylvania, City Directory, 1929

• Residence: From 1930 Census, 1930, Southmont, Cambria, Pennsylvania. Name: Edward F Gray
Event: Census
Event Date: 1930
Event Place: Southmont, Cambria, Pennsylvania
Gender: Male
Age: 47
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Birthplace: New York
Estimated Birth Year: 1883
Immigration Year:
Relationship to Head of Household: Head
Father's Birthplace: New York
Mother's Birthplace: New York
Enumeration District Number: 108
Family Number: 422
Sheet Number and Letter: 18A
Line Number: 23 NARA
Publication: T626, roll 2013
Film Number: 2341747
Digital Folder Number: 4639685
Image Number: 00973
Household
Gender Age
Edward F Gray M 47
Spouse Sara J Gray F 56
Child Robert B Gray M 18
Mary E Lomison F 63
Bell C Lomison F 60

Address: 1012 Millcreek Road

• Residence: Johnstown City Directory, 1933, Johnstown, Cambria, Pennsylvania. Name: Edward T Gray (Sarah J.; Gray and Claflin)
Residence Year: 1933
Street address: 1012 Mill Creek rd Southmont
Residence Place: Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA
Publication Title: Johnstown, Pennsylvania, City Directory, 1933

• Residence: Johnstown City Directory, 1938, Johnstown, Cambria, Pennsylvania. Name: Edward T Gray (Sarah J; Gray and Claflin)
Residence Year: 1938
Street address: 126 Tioga Wmt
Residence Place: Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA
Publication Title: Johnstown, Pennsylvania, City Directory, 1938

• Occupation: Civil Engineer with Federal Flood Control, 1940, Washington, DC. From 1940 Census

Note: His WWII draft registration states he worked for the Federal Parks Commission but a 1942 letter indicates he worked in the Water Power Bureau of the Federal Power Commission.

• Residence: From 1940 Census, 1940, Washington, DC. E T Gray
First Name: E
Middle Name: T
Last Name: Gray
Age at Time of Census: 60
Gender: Male
Race: White
Ethnicity: American
Estimated Birth Year: 1880
Birth Location: New York Map
Enumeration District: Jan-99
Residence: Tract 53, District of Columbia, Police Precinct 3, District of Columbia
Relationship to Head of Household: Head
Other People in Household:
Sarah Gray
67 yrs, Female
Marital Status: Married
Language: English
Genealogical Society Number: 5461941
NARA Publication Number: T627
NARA Microfilm Roll Number: 556
Line Number: 72
Sheet: B
Sheet Number: 3
Collection: U.S. 1940 Census Records

Household Role Gender Age Birthplace
E T Gray Head M 60 New York
Sarah Jean Gray Wife F 67 Pennsylvania

• Residence: OSWEGO Palladium Times, Wednesday, 24 Oct 1940, Oswego Town, Oswego, New York. OSWEGO CENTER
Wednesday Callers At Nelson G. Thompson Home

OSWEGO CENTER, Oct. ______
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Gray of Washington, D. C, and Miss Thyrza and Miss Florence Gray of Oswego, called Wednesday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Nelson G. Thompson.

• WWII Draft Registration: From Family Search org, Cir 1942, Washington DC.

• Residence: Johnstown City Directory, 1945, Johnstown, Cambria, Pennsylvania. Name: Edward T Gray (Sarah J.; Gray and Claflin)
Residence Year: 1945
Street address: 126 Tioga Wmt
Residence Place: Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA
Publication Title: Johnstown, Pennsylvania, City Directory, 1945

• Residence: Johnstown City Directory, 1947, Johnstown, Cambria, Pennsylvania. Name: Edward T Gray (Sarah J.; Gray and Claflin)
Residence Year: 1947
Street address: 126 Tioga Wmt
Residence Place: Johnstown , Pennsylvania, USA
Publication Title: Johnstown, Pennsylvania, City Directory, 1947

• Residence: Johnstown City Directory, 1949, Johnstown, Cambria, Pennsylvania. Name: Edward T Gray (Gray and Claflin)
Residence Year: 1949
Street address: 126 Tioga Wmt
Residence Place: Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA
Publication Title: Johnstown, Pennsylvania, City Directory, 1949

• Residence: Johnstown City Directory, 1951, Johnstown, Cambria, Pennsylvania. Name: Edward T Gray (Gray and Claflin)
Residence Year: 1951
Street address: 126 Tioga Wmt
Residence Place: Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA
Publication Title: Johnstown, Pennsylvania, City Directory, 1951

• Visit: At Presque Isle with his son, Bob, and grandson, Bobby, Cir 1952, Erie, Erie, Pennsylvania.

• Family: Visiting his son, Bob, and daughter-in-law, Betty, Dec 1953, Erie, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA.

• Residence: Johnstown City Directory, 1954, Johnstown, Cambria, Pennsylvania. Name: Edward T Gray (Gray and Claflin)
Residence Year: 1954
Street address: 126 Tioga Wmt
Residence Place: Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA
Publication Title: Johnstown, Pennsylvania, City Directory, 1954

• Residence: Johnstown City Directory, 1955, Johnstown, Cambria, Pennsylvania. Name: Edward T Gray (Gray and Claflin)
Residence Year: 1955
Street address: 126 Tioga Wmt
Residence Place: Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA
Publication Title: Johnstown, Pennsylvania, City Directory, 1955

• Obituary: The Tribune-Democrat, 19 Jun 1956, Johnstown, Cambria, Pennsylvania.

• Death: Johnstown Tribune Democrat, Tuesday, Page 20, 19 Jun 1956, Johnstown, Cambria, Pennsylvania.

• Death Certificate: From Find a Grave.

• Cemetery: Grandview Cemetery, 1956, Johnstown, Cambria, Pennsylvania. Inter. No. 33323
First Name EDWARD
Last Name GRAY
Middle Name T.
Lot 68
Section CE3
Interment Date 6/20/1956
Date of Death 6/18/1956
Place Deceased JOHNSTOWN, PA
Date of Birth
Place of Birth OSWEGO, NY
Age 74

• Gravestone: Grandview Cemetery, 1956, Johnstown, Cambria, Pennsylvania. Section CE3

He does not have a gravestone. Family plot is shown.

• Residence: Johnstown City Directory, 1957, Johnstown, Cambria, Pennsylvania. Name: Edward T Gray (Gray and Claflin)
Residence Year: 1957
Street address: 126 Tioga Wmt
Residence Place: Johnstown , Pennsylvania, USA
Publication Title: Johnstown, Pennsylvania, City Directory, 1957

Note: E T died in 1956 indicating a delay in publication of the city directory

Edward married Sarah Jean Lomison, daughter of John Nelson Lomison and Miriam St. Clair "Danny" Stewart, on 11 Oct 1906 in Johnstown, Cambria, Pennsylvania. (Sarah Jean Lomison was born on 27 Jul 1871 in Homer City, Indiana, Pennsylvania, died on 25 Sep 1946 in Johnstown, Cambria, Pennsylvania and was buried on 26 Sep 1946 in Grandview Cemetery, Johnstown, Cambria, PA.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Marriage License: MARRIAGE: Licenses, Cambria Freeman; October, 1906; Cambria County, PA, 12 Oct 1906, Ebensburg, Pennsylvania. Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Patty Millich

Cambria Freeman
Ebensburg, Pa.
Friday, 12 Oct 1906
Volume 40, Number 41

Marriage Licenses

Edward Gray and Sarah J. Lomison of Johnstown.

• Wedding Announcement: The Tribune-Democrat, 26 Sep 1906, Johnstown, Cambria, Pennsylvania. Wedding Bells

Gray-Lomison

The marriage of Miss Sarah Jean Lomison to Edward Townsend Gray will be solemnized at the home of the bride's mother, Mrs. John Nelson Lomison, No. 213 Lincoln street, First Ward on Thursday evening, October 11th at 6 o'clock. The ceremony will be performed by the bride's pastor, the Rev. Dr. C. C. Hays of the First Presbyterian Church. Mr. and Mrs. Gray will make their home in the Evan W. Jones property on Vine street.

• Wedding: The Tribune-Democrat, 12 Oct 1906, Johnstown, Cambria, Pennsylvania. E T GRAY WEDS MISS JEAN LOMISON

Pretty Home Ceremony Solemnized Last Evening by Rev. Dr. Hayes

SOLO WAS A FEATURE

The marriage of Miss Sarah Jean Lomison to Edward Townsend Gray was solemnized at 6:30 o'clock last evening, at the home of the bride's mother, Mrs. Miriam Lomison, No. 213 Lincoln street, in the presence of some sixty friends of the contracting pair. Just before the hour set for the marriage Attorney W. David Lloyd, of Market street, sang Tim Suter's "Bedouin Love Song," with Mrs. Hubert R. Jaques, of the South Side, as accompanist.

The wedding march from "Lohengrin" was played by Mrs. Jaques, and the Rev. Dr. C. Hayes, Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, performed the ceremony. The bride wore white chiffon trimmed with real lace and carried an immense bouquet of yellow roses. Mrs. Charles Longenecker of Beaver, the matron of honor, wore a gown of pale blue crepe de chine and carried yellow chrysanthemums. Miss Anna Jean Swank was the flower maid, and Misses Margaret Walters and Mildred Lomison Coleman were ribbon girls. Miss Swank wore a dress of yellow radium and carried daisies, while the flower girls were attired in white embroidered Swiss, with pale blue ribbons. Fred Winslow Chaflin [Claflin], of Boston, Mass., was best man.

Among the guest present from out of the city were Miss Thyrma [Thyrza] Gray of Oswego, N.Y., a sister of the groom; Mr. and Mrs. James I. Nix, of Homer; Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Thompson of Indiana; and Mrs. Charles Longenecker of Beaver.

The Crystal Cafe did the catering at the wedding supper which followed the ceremony. The bride and groom will leave this evening for Oswego, N.Y. to spend their honeymoon. Mr. Gray is a graduate of Cornell University, and is at present employed as a civil engineer at the Franklin Plant of the Cambria Steel Company. Upon their return from the Empire State, the couple will make their home on Vine street, First Ward.

• Wedding Trip: The Pittsburgh Press, Page 11, 28 Oct 1906, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. Johnstown

Mr. and Mrs. Edward Townsend Gray are home from a wedding trip.

• Church: Westmont United Presbyterian Church, 1894, Johnstown, Cambria, Pennsylvania. In October, 1894, the first Sunday School in Westmont was organized under sponsorship of the First Presbyterian Church of Johnstown where Rev. Calvin C. Hays was Pastor. It was located in a vacant room above Kramer's Store on the comer of Tioga Street and Second Avenue.

In 1902, the Trustees of the First Presbyterian Church adopted a resolution to build a chapel in Westmont. A building committee was appointed, with its members being Frank M. Buchanan, Daniel M. Stackhouse, and Mary Jane Cooper. About three thousand dollars was subscribed, not including the donation of pulpit fumiture, an organ, chandeliers, etc. A chapel was built on Mifflin Street on a lot donated by the Cambria Iron Company during the summer of l9O2 and dedicated on November 30, 1902. "free of debt."

It remained a dream of Rev. Dr. Calvin C. Hays, Pastor of First Presbyterian Church to establish in Wesfinont a Presbyt€rian Church which would succeed the chapel. ln 1924, a building commifiee was appointed. This committee selected a modem Gothic style of architecture for the stone edifice. The lots on Mifflin Street were sold and lots on the comer of Luzeme Street and Fisk Avenue were purchased. The laying of the comerstone took place on May 9, 1926, and the church was dedicated on June 5, 1927. The first p:lstor of the Wesfinont Presbyterian Church was Rev. John Rhys Roberts. The cost for property, building, and furnishings, including the organ, w as $233,814.72.

Membership continued to grow, reaching 1,117 memben in 1976 and prompting the Church to conduct two services each Sunday. In addition, the Ctrurch currently sponsors the Weekday Nursery School, which has an accredited school program for approximately children three, four, and five years of age.