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Graham, Joanna – Graham, William

Graham, Joanna

author. Of the Life and Letters of Mrs. Graham, more than 50,000 copies have been sold in America, and many editions issued in England and Scotland.

Graham, John

diplomat. He was a citizen of virginia. In 1819 he was appointed minister plenipotentiary to Portugal. He also went to Brazil on diplomatic business; and returned to the United States in 1820. He died July 31, 1820.

Graham, John

clergyman, was born in 1694 in Scotland. He was the author of A Ballad against the Church of England in Connecticut. He died in December, 1774, in Woodbury, Conn.

Graham, John Andrew

lawyer, author, was born June 10, 1764, in Southbury, Conn. He was a lawyer of Rutland, Vt.; and the author of Descriptive Sketch of Present State of Vermont; Speeches; and Memoirs of Horne Tooke.

He died Aug. 29, 1841, in New York city.

Graham, John Hodges

naval officer, was born March 9, 1794, in Vermont.

He entered the navy as midshipman in 1812; was promoted to be lieutenant in 1817; and captain in 1849. He died March 15, 1878, in Newbury, N. H.

Graham, John Lorimer

soldier, lawyer, was born March 20, 1797, in London, England. In 1834 he was appointed regent of the state university, and from 1840 till 1844 was postmaster of New York city. He died July 22, 1876, in Flushing, N. Y.

Graham, Neil F

physician, surgeon, was born Feb. 9, 1840, in Canada. He served as a surgeon in the army until the close of the war; and was elected professor of surgery at Howard university, Washington, D. C., in 1872.

Graham, Robert

clergyman, educator, college president, was born Aug. 14, 1822, in Liverpool, England. He was the president and founder of the Arkansas college; has been president of the Kentucky university; and until 1896 was president of College of the Bible of Lexington, Ky.

Graham, Robert D

agriculturist, lawyer, state legislator, was born Nov. 11, 1855, in Canada. He has attained success in the practice of law in Grand Rapids, Mich. He served with distinction as a member of the Michigan state legislature in 1897-98.

Graham, Sylvester

vegetarian, author, was born in 1794 in Suffield, Conn. He was a well-known vegetarian and lecturer upon temperance. He was the author of Lectures on the Science of Human Life; Bread and Breadmaking; and Philosophy of Sacred History. He died Sept. 11, 1851, in Northampton, Mass.

Graham, William

college president, was born Dec. 19, 1745, in Harrisburg, Pa.

He was first president of Liberty Hall academy, afterward Washington college and Washington and Lee university. He died June 8, 1799, in Richmond, Va.

Graham, William

congressman, was born in 1783. He was a member of the convention which framed the state constitution of Indiana; and served many years in both branches of the state legislature, and was speaker in 1820. He was a representative in congress from Indiana from 1837 to 1839. He died in 1857 near Valonia, Ind.