Adam Ray

Adam E. Ray (1808 - September 20, 1865) was an American farmer politician from Troy, Wisconsin who served several terms in the Legislature of Wisconsin Territory, and a single term in 1851 as a Free Soil Party member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from Walworth County. Background Ray was the son of Martin Ray and Caroline Phelps Ray, born in Kingston, New York in 1808. (His brother George Augustus Ray, who would also serve in the legislature, was born in 1819). Adam Ray came to Milwaukee in Wisconsin Territory around 1837, and represented Milwaukee and Washington counties in the territorial Legislature; lower house from 1839 to 1842; upper house in 1845. About 1846 he settled in Troy with his wife, Eliza. They would have children: Patrick Henry, Eliza, Mary, Augusta, Jane, Fred, Ira, and Ida. Patrick Henry Ray would retire as a brigadier general; the Ray Mountains and Ray River in Alaska are named after him. Public office In 1847, Ray was chairman of Troy's town board and a member of the county's Board of Supervisors.