Born in New Hamburg, Ontario, Canada
[uncertain]
Ancestors [uncertain]
Son of Daniel Kreh
and Anna Julia (Schweitzer) Kreh
Husband of
Jane McLeod (Jeffrey) Grey
— married
4 Aug 1914 in Stratford Ontario Canada
Descendants 
Died about
at about age 81
in Toledo, Ohio, United States
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Biography
Alfred grew up in New Hamburg. He graduated from the evangelical Wheaton College in Illinois in 1911 and three years later from the modernist Chicago Theological Seminary. Alfred said, "Ozora Stearns Davis, President of Chicago Seminary exercised a profound influence over me. I learned more from him than from all the rest of the faculty together."
Of his marriage to Jane Jeffrey in 1914 he said, "The marriage will take place very quietly in August."
On September 1, 1914 he "returned home" to Tacoma, Washington where he was ordained in his first job as an Associate Pastor. The sermon was by his brother, Rev. Ira Milton Grey.
His daughters were born in 1915 and 1917 and Alfred said, "My great purpose in life is to live for them and rear them to noble womanhood."
Other points of reference in his life were:
- In 1920 he had a parsonage in Waukesha, Kansas.
- From 1941 to 1947 he owned a 70 acre farm in the Sebringville, Ontario area which was farmed and later purchased by Wm. Monteith Jeffrey.
- From 1942 to 1952 he had a parish in Toledo, Ohio.
- From June, 1952 to October, 1953 he lived in Stratford and had a parish in Harmony and Tavistock, Ontario.[1]
Milly Swartzbaugh, had this to say about her grandfather, Alfred: He and his brother Milton loved to fish together. He was a wonderful preacher, blessed with a keen wit and sense of humour. He served many churches, but perhaps his longest pastorates were in Lawrence, Kansas and Toledo, Ohio. One man told me after his death, "To be with Alfred Grey WAS to be happy." That was how I felt about him as well.
Sources
- See the Monteith Tree.
Footnotes
- ↑ Taken from his address, "50 years in the Ministry", Oct. 17, 1964, contributed by Marian MacLeod from a binder called "The History of the 70".
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