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Grafton, Joseph – Graham, James S

Grafton, Joseph

clergyman, was born June 9, 1757, in Newport, R. I. He accepted a call to Newton, Mass., and was ordained as pastor of the baptist church in that place in 1788. He died Sept. 16, 1836, in Newton, Mass.

Graham, Charles Kinnaird

civil engineer, was born June 3, 1824, in New York city. At the beginning of the civil war he volunteered in the national army, about four hundred men in his employ in the navy yard following his example. In 1862 he was commissioned brigadier-general. He died April 18, 1889, in New York city.

Graham, Christopher Brian

educator, journalist, clergyman, was born May 19, 1850, in Charleston, W. Va. He was a successful school teacher and a prosperous merchant; and in 1879 became a clergyman of the methodist episcopal church. For six years he was presiding elder of the Charleston district; and there published The Charleston Advocate. He has held important offices in his conference, and now fills a pastorate in Wheeling, W. Va.

Graham, Curtis

author, was born March 11, 1872, in Ormsby, Nev. He received his education in the San Francisco schools and the university of California.

He has filled several positions of trust, and is attaining success as a magazine writer and author.

Graham, David

lawyer, author, was born Feb. 8, 1808, in London, England.

He was a lawyer of New York city; and the author of Practice of the Supreme Court of New York State; New Trials; and Courts of Law and Equity in New York State. He died May 27, 1852, in Nice, France.

Graham, George

soldier, public official, was born about 1772 in Dumfries, Va. He was acting secretary of war during the last two years of President Madison's administration. He became president of the Washington branch of the United States bank; and in 1823 was appointed commissioner of the land office. He died in August, 1830, in Washington, D. C.

Graham, George Rex

lawyer, journalist, was born Jan. 18, 1813, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1846 he purchased the North American, and in 1847 the United States Gazette, which he incorporated with the North American.

Graham, Henry Hale

jurist, was born July 1, 1731, in London, England.

In 1789 Delaware county in Pennsylvania was created, and he was commissioned president judge of its court of common pleas. He died Jan. 24, 1790, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Graham, Isabella

philanthropist, was born July 29, 1742, in Scotland.

Among the more important of the institutions established by her are the Widows' and Orphans' Asylum societies, the society for the Promotion of Industry, and the first Sunday school for ignorant adults. She died July 27, 1814, in New York city.

Graham, James

lawyer, congressman, was born in January, 1793, in Lincoln county, N. C. He served four years in the state legislature; and was a representative in congress from North Carolina from 1833 to 1843, and from 1845 to 1847.

He died Sept. 25, 1851.

Graham, James H

congressman.

He was elected a representative from New York to the thirty-sixth congress.

Graham, James S

soldier, manufacturer, legislator, was born May 28, 1836, in Edinburgh, Scotland. He served as a soldier in the civil war, and was promoted to captain and brevetted major, and in 1896 was elected commander department of the New York Grand Army of the Republic. He served as a member of the New York legislature for three terms; and is a successful manufacturer of machinery in Rochester, N. Y.