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York. He was the author of Practice of the Supreme Court of New York State; New Trials; and Courts of Law and Equity

New

He

in York State. in Nice, France.

Graham, George,

died

soldier,

May

37, 1852,

legislator,

was

born Oct.

13, 1759, in Chester county. Pa. served throughout the revolutionary war. After the declaration of peace he served several terms in the legislature; was for a long time clerk of the court of Mecklenberg county; and became major-general He died March 39, 1826, of the militia. near Charlotte, N.C. Graham, George, soldier, public official, cabinet officer, was born about 1772 in Dumfries, Va. In 1817 he was secretary of war. 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 Edward, ioumalist, au-

He

thor,

N.Y.

was born Nov.

15, 1866, in Albany, During the Spanish-American war he

was correspondent

associated press on the flagship Brooklyn; and stood beside Admiral Schley on the bridge during the destruction of C'ervera's fleet. He is the author of Fighting With Schley. of the

Graham, George Rex, lawyer, journalist, publisher, 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. He died July 13, 1894, in Orange, N.J.

Graham, Harvey, soldier, was born in Pennsylvania. In 1861 he was first lieutenant in the first regiment Iowa infantry; and in 1865 was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers.

He

died

May

Graham, Henry Hale,

31, 1884.

la.wyer, 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, founder, philanthropist, was born July 29, 1743, in Scotland. Among the more important of the institutions established by her are the vndows' and orphans' asylum societies, the society for the

promotion of industry, and the

first

Sun-

dav 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,

He

served four years in the state legand in 1833-43 and 1845-47 he was a representative from North Carolina in the twenty-third, twenty-fourth, twentyfifth, twenty-sixth, twenty-seventh and the twenty-ninth congresses. He died Sept. 35, 1851, in Rutherford county, N.C. Graham, James H., congressman. In 185961 he was a representative from New York

N.C.

islature;

to the

New

thirty-sixth

congress.

He

died

in

York.

Graham, James M., lawyer, congressman, was born April 14, 1853, in Ireland. For seven years he taught in the public schools of Champaign county. 111. In 1885 he was admitted to the practice of law; and served one term in the Illinois state legislature. In 1892-96 he was state's attorney of Sangamon county. In 1909-11 he was a representative from Illinois to the sixty-first congress as a democrat. Graham, James S., soldier, manufacturer, legislator, was bom May 27, 1836, in Edinburgh, Scotland. He served as a soldier in the civil war; and was promoted to captain and brevetted major. In 1896 he was elected commander of the department of the New York grand army of the republic. He served as a member of the New York state legislature for three terms; is a successful manufacturer of machinery in Rochester, N.Y. In 1898-1907 he was postmaster of his city.

Graham, Joanna, author of the Life and of Mrs. Graham, more than fifty thousand copies have been sold in America; and many editions issued in England and Letters

Scotland.

Graham, John, diplomat. He was a

citizen

of Virginia; and in 1819 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, in Virginia.

Graham, John, clergyman, author, was born in 1694 in Scotland. In 1733 he was called to the Second church of Southbury, Conn., where he spent over forty years. 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. He was the author of Descriptive Sketch of Present State of Vermont; Speeches; and Memoirs of Home Tooke. He died Aug. 29, 1841, in New York City.

Graham, John

H., soldier,

merchant, man-

ufacturer, congressman, was born April 1, 1835, in Ireland. In the fall of 1861 he recruited company A, fifth regiment heavy artillery. New York volunteers, and served three years as its captain; and was commissioned as major, and brevetted lieutenant-colonel. In 1893-95 he was a representative to the fifty-third congress as a

democrat.

Graham, John Hodges, naval officer, was 9, 1794, in Vermont. He entered the navy as midshipman in 1812; was promoted to be lieutenant in 1817; and cap-

bom March

tain in 1849. He died March 15, 1878, in Newbury, N.H. Graham, John Lorimer, soldier, lawyer, was bom March SO, 1797, in London, Eng-