Born: Feb­ru­a­ry 14, 1803, Ja­mai­ca Plain, Rox­bu­ry, Mass­a­chu­setts.

Died: March 6, 1849, Bos­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts.

Gray grad­u­at­ed from Har­vard Coll­ege in 1823. Af­ter vis­it­ing Eur­ope, he earned his MD de­gree in 1827, and prac­ticed me­di­cine in Bos­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts. He sub­se­quent­ly moved in­to a ca­reer in chem­is­try. His hymns were main­ly writ­ten for child­ren, and for oc­ca­sion­al ser­vic­es.

Sources

Hymns

1. Good-Night, Good-Night, Our Song Is Said
2. Jehovah! at Thine Awful Throne
3. Our Father, Here Again We Raise
4. Suppliant, Lo!
5. We Come in Childhood’s Innocence