Asa Gray was an intelligent man born in America. He was “born November 18, 1810, Sauquoit, New York, U.S.—died January 30, 1888, Cambridge, Massachusetts” . Asa Gray is viewed as the most critical American botanist of the nineteenth century. His Darwinian was considered a critical explanation of how religion and science were not necessarily mutually exclusive. Gray was adamant that a genetic connection must exist between all members of a species. He was additionally strongly opposed to the thoughts of hybridization within a generation and special creation in the sense of its not allowing for evolution, as he believed there was a creator.

Gary was the son of Moses Gray and Roxana Howard Gray, who had migrated from New England to upstate