Background
Gay, Harry Nelson was born on August 4, 1870 in Newton, Massachusetts, United States. Son of L. Bachelor and Antoinette A. (Kenny) Gay.
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Harry Nelson Gay
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Bachelor of Arts, Amherst, 1891. Master of Arts, Harvard, 1896; fellow of Harvard, 1900-1903.
Career
Vice president Executive Committee Keats-Shelley Memorial Association, Rome. V. chairman of the board of trustees Library for American Studies in Italy, president Phi Beta Kappa Association of Italy, and chairman Roosevelt Memorial Association in Italy. Honorary secretary American Relief Committee, Rome, for earthquake sufferers in Sicily and Calabria, and conducted American relief expedition into Calabria, 1909.
Representative in Italy, American Poets’ Ambulances, 1917-1918.
General representative Italian War Relief Fund of America, 1918-1922. Collected noted library upon history of Italy, 1815-1870.
Commander Order Saint Maurice and Saint Lazaraus, and Commander Order Crown of Italy. Founding member National Society for Modern Italian History.
Member Royal Italian Common for National History.
Author: Abramo Lincoln (in Americani Illustri series). Cavour e l’Incognita. Strenuous Italy, 1927.
Editor: Italy’s Great War and Her National Aspirations.
Americani Illustri; (with Sir Rennell Rodd) Bulletin of the Keats-Shelley Memorial. Collaborator on “The Inquiry,” directed by Colonel House, 1918-1919, to obtain data for the Peace Conference.
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Member Royal Italian Common for National History.
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Married Eugenie Guthrie, April.
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American