Primary Name: Gray, Robert
Filed as: gray_robert
Also known as: Robert Gray
Occupation / Association: Miner; merchant clerk; shipping businessman; Democratic Territorial Representative; Charter Member, Pioneers of Alaska Juneau Men’s Igloo No. 6
Born: 1857, Jefferson, Texas
Died: Summer 1917, Texas
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Associated places: Jefferson, Texas; Juneau, Alaska; Skagway, Alaska; Atlin, British Columbia; Katalla, Alaska
Keywords: Robert Gray Alaska politician, Gray Robert Juneau pioneer, Alaska Territorial House 1913, Katalla shipping business, Koehler and James Store clerk
Biography
Robert Gray was a charter member of the Pioneers of Alaska, Juneau Men’s Igloo No. 6, and an early merchant, miner, and political figure in Alaska.
Gray was born in Jefferson, Texas, in 1857. He came to Juneau in 1896, where he worked as a clerk at the Koehler & James Store.
In 1898, he moved to Skagway during the Klondike Gold Rush period. He later mined in the Atlin district before becoming involved in the wharf and shipping business at Katalla, Alaska.
Gray was active in populist politics and served as a Democratic representative in the Alaska Territorial House of Representatives in 1913.
Robert Gray died in Texas in the summer of 1917.
Sources
Who's Who in Alaskan Politics: Biographical Dictionary of Alaskan Political Personalities, 1884–1974, Evangeline Atwood and Robert N. DeArmond; Daily Alaska Empire, September 25, 1917; Alaska Digital Archives, James Joseph Connors Photograph Collection PCA 457