Robert J. Gray, vice-president of the Citizens' Bank, of Eureka Springs, was born four miles west of Clarksville, Johnson Co., Ark. He is a son of William and Emma (Crothers) Gray. William Gray was born in Maryland in 1818, and came West as an army surgeon in 1835. He was an eminent and successful physician. During the Mexican War he served in the volunteer army service. He was elected colonel and given charge of Fort Gibson for ten months. After 1835, he served in the regular army as surgeon for several years. He was of Scotch-English descent, and was finely educated, having graduated from Harvard College. While a resident of Johnson County, Ark., he represented the county in the State Legislature, and was a candidate for re-election at the time of his death, which occurred on May 16, 1851, at Clarksville, Ark. His widow was born in New York, and is still living with her son, the subject of this sketch. Both parents were consistent members of the Episcopal church. In 1852 the mother married John F. Hill, a veteran of the Mexican War, and a colonel in the Confederate army during the Civil war. He died in Clarksville in February, 1882. He was a Mason of high standing, and at one time was a member of the State Senate. Robert J. Gray was reared in Clarksville to the age of thirteen years, when, in 1859, he started in company with relatives across the plains to California, reaching there after a six months' trip. He remained on the frontier, engaged in farming, mining, etc., for eithteen years, when he returned to Arkansas. Locating at Clarksville, in 1876. he engaged in merchandising with John F. Hill, and continued for three years. In the spring of 1880 he came to Eureka Springs, and for seven years was engaged in the liquor business, after which he was elected vice-president of the Citizens' Bank, and was acting president of the same for six months. Mr. Gray is also a member of the firm of Freeman, Gray & Co., dealers in produce and stock. His marriage with Anna Doss, of Eureka Springs, was celebrated on June 20, 1883. Mrs. Gray is a native of Tennessee, and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Mr. Gray is a Mason, a member of the K. of P. and I.O.O.F.