Harold Studley Gray

Born in 1894; quit Harvard College in sophomore year to go to England as a “Y” Secretary; in late 1917 he quit because of the increasing militarization of the YMCA; returned to U.S. in Nov. 1917; registered for the draft on June 5, 1917 as a C.O.; assigned to 1st Casual Battalion, Conscientious Objectors, Ft. Riley, Headquarters Camp Funston (KS) on(?) Nov. 14, 1918 [see Kreger letter] (may not have been his first assignment); classified as 1A; interviewed by Special Board of Inquiry on charge of disobedience of orders at Custer and at the Disciplinary Barracks [at Leavenworth?], undated; sentenced to 25 years in prison - reduced to 3 years; arrived at Ft. Leavenworth on July 18, 1918 [Mininger's 2nd list says that Gray was imprisoned at Ft. Leavenworth on November 15, 1918, sent there from Ft. Riley]; was later at Alcatraz prison; sentence remitted on Aug. 19, 1919, according to Kreger letter, because of his being a "sincere" conscientious objector and his conduct good during confinement, and discharged in Sept. 1919; an absolutist C.O.; courts-martial record #122482; after WWI finished his degree at Harvard; taught economics in Chicago (IL), then helped build a cooperative community, Saline Valley Farms, in Michigan; married, with three children; died in 1972; featured in Character “Bad”: The Story of a Conscientious Objector.