Charles M. Gray

As printed in 1912

CHARLES M. GRAY, D. D. S.

In a locality ranking high for its professional talent, whose dentists take conspicuous places among their colleagues throughout the state, is Dr. Charles M. Gray, who is located at Mt. Vernon, Knox county, where he is enjoying a lucrative practice and, although a young man, is rapidly taking his position as one of the representative citizens of this locality whose interests he seems to have at heart.

Doctor Gray was born April 23, 1879, in Muskingum county, Ohio, the son of James and Medolia (Hicks) Gray, both natives of Muskingum county, w'here the father was a successful farmer and prominent in public affairs, being an ardent Republican. For many years he served as justice of the peace. He stood high in the county and his character was above reproach.

Charles M. Gray grew to maturity on the home farm, which he worked during the crop seasons, and attended the district schools in the winter time, remaining under the parental roof until he was twenty years of age, when he took a position as foreman of the decorating department of the J. B. Owens Pottery Company at Zanesville, Ohio, where he remained three years, having as many as forty men under him, and his services were eminently satisfactory to the management. In 1904 he left this establishment, and, having always had a desire and ambition to become a dentist, he entered the office of Dr. J. J. Hill, of Zanesville, and later that of Dr. Charles Hill, of Wheeling, West Virginia, having spent a year in the office of the former and a year and a half in that of the latter. In the fall of 1906 he entered the dental department of the Starling Medical College, at Columbus, Ohio, to complete his dental course, and he remained a student there three years, graduating there with a splendid record in the spring of 1909. Soon afterward he located at Mt. Vernon, opening a neat office for the practice of his profession at No. hi 1-2 South Main street and he has since remained in the same location. His office is admirably arranged, modern in every appointment and all equipment is thoroughly up-to-date, his apparatus being of the best and latest models. Notwithstanding the fact that he has been in Mt. Vernon a comparatively short time. Doctor Gray has built up a very large and lucrative patronage which is continually growing, he and his assistant being kept constantly busy.

Personally, Doctor Gray is a genial and affable gentleman and, being skilled and honest in his work, he has no trouble in securing and retaining patients.

Adhering to the political faith of his father, Doctor Gray is a Republican, but is not active in political affairs, though he is always interested and well informed on public matters. Fraternally, he is a member of the Masonic order and has attained to the Knight Templar degree. He affiliates with the Methodist Episcopal church. He has remained unmarried.

As printed in Past and present of Knox County, Ohio (1912). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.