... University Hall and Gray Chapel [Columbia College] was completed in 1893. It is a massive stone building of Romanesque style, and cost $176,000. It is one of the most complete college buildings to be found in America. Gray Chapel, named to commemorate the life of Rev. David Gray, the pioneer preacher, and noble father of D. S. Gray, Esq., of Columbus, is a commodious and elegant auditorium that will seat twenty-five hundred people. It is here the students meet daily for religious worship and instruction, and in lecture courses and concerts hear some of the most distinguished men of the Nation. ...
...The Rev. David Gray is entitled to particular notice, because of his long residence in Findlay as a superannuate. He was appointed to Findlay as preacher in 1853. The charge was then called a station, as we have seen, but it had two country appointments attached to it—one at Thomas's schoolhouse, three miles up the River Blanchard, and the other two miles west of Findlay, at Burkhead's schoolhouse. Brother Gray preached at Findlay every Sunday morning and evening, and at each of the country appointments every other Sunday in the afternoon. The membership of the Church was then divided into nine classes, including one at each of the country appointments. The next year he was made the presiding elder of the Maumee District, and moved to Maumee City. Four years later, at the end of his term as presiding elder, he purchased a home in Findlay, where he and his family continued to live. He preached for a number of years in. circuits near by till 1864, when he was made supernumerary. In 1870 he took a superannuated relation, which he held until his death, in 1887, in his eighty-eighth year. Joseph M. Avann. ...
