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Show Ray of Ray' Arithmetic Joseph Ray, educator, was born In Virginia in ISO". His early education was self-obtained, and he began to teach school at sixteen. Subsequently he studied nt Washington college, In Pennsylvania, and at the school which Is now the Ohio university, Athens. Ills degree of M. D. was obtained at the Ohio Medical college, and he was for a time a surgeon In the Cincinnati hospital. From ISIlt to l$rl Doctor Bay taught mathematics at Woodward college, Cincinnati, nnd when it was converted Into a public high school he became Its principal. During this time be published his series of school books on arithmetic nnd algebra. From about IS It) he was president of the hoard f directors of the Cincinnati Cincin-nati House of Refuge. Ho died in Cincinnati in 1S05. |
