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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.

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William D. Williams, "Alonzo Gray's 'Elements of Chemistry'" Bull. Hist. Chem 20
(1997) http://www.scs.illinois.edu/~mainzv/HIST/bulletin_open_access/num20/num20%20p24-26.pdf (accessed 10/14/2014)
Elements of Chemistry; Containing the Principles of the Science, Both Experimental and Theoretical

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