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Isaac Ray was born on January 16, 1807 in Beverly, Massachussets, the son of Isaac Rea, a shipmaster, and Lydia (Simonds) Rea. The family later changed the spelling of the name.
The younger Isaac was educated at Phillips Academy, Andover, and at Bowdoin College, taking high rank in scholarship. He studied medicine under Dr. George Shattuck of Boston and received the degree of M. D. from the medical department of Bowdoin (Medical School of Maine) in 1827.
He opened an office in Portland, Maine, two years later removing to Eastport, where he remained till 1841. In 1838 he published A Treatise on the Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity, still an accepted authority in courts of law.
In 1841 he became superintendent of the Maine Insane Hospital, Augusta, which institution he left in 1845 to assume medical charge of Butler Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island, a recently established private, incorporated hospital for mental diseases. Its trustees commissioned Ray and Dr. Luther Bell of McLean Asylum (now McLean Hospital, Waverley, Massachussets) to visit hospitals and asylums in Europe with a view to devising plans which should embody the best known construction of that period. Ray's "Observations on the Principal Hospitals for the Insane in Great Britain, France, and Germany" was a result of that visit, and the hospital when completed (1847) bore witness in its arrangements and architecture to the fruitfulness of the foreign experience.
Returning to Providence in 1846, he remained at Butler Hospital as physician-in-chief and superintendent till the close of 1866, when he resigned on account of impaired health.
Ray left his fortune ($75, 000) to Butler Hospital.
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Ray was president of the Rhode Island Medical Society, 1856-58; and president, 1855-59, of the Association of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions for the Insane (now American Psychiatric Association), of which in 1844 he was one of the founders.
He married, in 1831, Abigail May Frothingham. There were two children, a daughter, who died young, and Dr. B. Lincoln Ray who died in 1879.