Alonzo Gray
1808 - 1860
Little is known of the life of Alonzo Gray.He taught natural science, chemistry, botany, geology and mineralogy at Teacher's Seminary, a division of Phillips Academy, at Andover. Following the 1844-5 school year as professor of chemistry at Marietta College, the remainder of his career was spent as headmaster of two schools in Brooklyn, NY:
Brooklyn Heights Female Academy and Brooklyn Heights Female Seminary. He died March 10, 1860, in Brooklyn.