Hilyer, Amanda Gray, 1870-1957

found: NUCMC data from Moorland-Spingarn Research Center for Andrew F. Hilyer papers, 1893-1913(Amanda Gray Hilyer, 1870-1957)

found: Dict. of Amer. Negro Biog., 1982, p. 314(seven years after the death of his first wife, A.F. Hilyer married Amanda Victoria Gray (1870-1957), a 1903 graduate of the Howard School of Pharmacy, the widow of Arthur S. Gray, who had been active with the Hilyers in Washington, D.C. civic affairs)

found: Rummel, Jack. African-American social leaders and activists, ©2003:page 101 (Amanda Victoria Gray Hilyer, community and civil rights leader. Born March 24, 1870 in Atchinson, Kansas. Moved to Washington, D.C. after her marriage where she studied pharmacology at Howard University, graduating in 1903. Helped her husband with the pharmacy business he had set up in D.C. Served as the recording secretary of the Phyllis Wheatley Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA). Died in D.C. June 19, 1957)