Isaac Clark Pray

Background

Pray, Isaac Clark was born on May 15, 1813 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Isaac and Martha (Haggens) Pray.

Education

Attended Harvard, 1829. Graduate Amherst College, 1833.

Career

Edited Boston Pearl, other papers during 1830’son Manager National Theatre, New York City, 1836. Editor Sunday Morning News, New York, Dramatic Guardian and the Ladies Companion.

Appeared successfully as actor in England, 1846-1847.

Manager Theatre Royal, Cork, Ireland, circa 1847, Beach Street Museum, Boston, 1849. Music and dramatic critic Herald, New York City, 1850.

Editor Philadelphia Inquirer, 1859-1860. Tutored students for theatre in New York City, 1850-1860.

Author: (dramas) Medea, Orestes, Virginius, The Hermit of Malta.

Prose and Verse, 1835, The Old Cock (farce, played New York), 1836. Poems, 1837, Book of the Drama, 1851, Memoirs of James Gordon Bennett, 1855.

Achievements

• Isaac Clark Pray has been listed as a noteworthy journalist, dramatist by Marquis Who's Who.

Connections

Married Sarah Henry, 2 children.

Father:

Isaac Pray

Mother:

Martha (Haggens) Pray

Spouse:

Sarah Henry