JOHN CHIPMAN GRA.Y. 



the later days of his life. Those who were able to profit l)y his 

 hospitality dwell upon his genial manners and the great power and 

 interest of his conversational faculties. 



The attention of the iVcademy is of necessity concentrated upon 

 his liistorical research in connection with the Province Laws. It is 

 upon the character and value of that work that his fame must rest. 

 While we can not at present predict with certainty what the verdict 

 of posterity will be, we have at any rate at our command the pro- 

 found respect with which students today treat these annotations, 

 upon which we may predicate an opinion as to what is impending in 

 the future. 



For the details given of Mr. Goodell's Salem life, this sketch is 

 indebted to a Memoir published in the Bulletin of the Essex Institute, 

 to which one mav turn for fuller details concerning this portion of his 

 life. 



Andrew McFarl.'Vnd Davis. 



JOHN CHIPMAN GRAY (1839.-1915) 



Fellow in Class III, Section 1, 1878, Vice-President, 1902-1912. 



John Chipman Gray, long Fellow and for se^'eral years Vice- 

 President of the Academy, was born in Brighton, July 14, 1839; 

 received from Harvard University the degrees of A.B. in 1859, LL.B. 

 in 1861, and A.M. in 1862; served in the army of the United States, 

 1862-65; practised law in Boston 1865-1915; and was lecturer and 

 Professor in the Harvard Law School continuously, excepting two 

 years before 1875, from 1869 until his resignation in 1913; died 

 February 25, 1915. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from 

 Yale and Harvard. He had been President of the Harvard Alumni 

 Association, of the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, and of the 

 Boston Bar Association, and a member of the Massachusetts Histori- 

 cal Society. He was a legal author of eminence, his principal works 

 being Restraints on Alienation (1883, 1895), The Rule against Per- 

 petuities (1886, 1906, 1915), The Nature and Sources of the Law 

 (1909). 



Professor Gray was a virile man, mentally and physically, one in 

 whom wisdom, judgment, and probity were joined with illuminated 



