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Philadelphia water- works for forty-two years and a monument was built to his memory in Fair- mount Park, and his services were otherwise acknowledged by the water committee.' He died in Pliiladelphia, Pa., April 13, 18-17.

QRAFF, John Michael, Moravian bishop, was born in Saxe-Meiuingen, Germany, Sept. 28, 1714. He was a graduate of the University of Jena, emigrated to America in ITol, and was a mission- ary in the Moravian church in Pennsylvania and adjacent territory. He was in charge of the Moravian church, Nazareth, Pa., 1753-61, and during the French and Indian wars prevented by diplomacy the threatened attack of the enemy on his parishioners. In 1761 he was transferred to the settlement of Moravians at Salem, N.C., and in 1773 was made a member of the southern govern- ing board. He was consecrated to the episcopacy June 6, 1773, and labored with great success. He died at Salem, N.C., Aug. 38, 1783.

QRAFF, Joseph Verdi, representative, was born at Terre Haute, Ind., July 1, 1854; son of Jacob and Mary J. (Miller) Graff. He was gradu- ated from Terre Haute high school in 1870, and entered Wabash college, C'rawfordsville, Ind., leaving at the close of his freshman year. He was admitted to the bar in 1879 and settled at Pekin, Tazewell county, 111. He was a delegate to the Republican national convention in 1893, and a Republican representative in the 54th- 58th congresses, 1S9.5-190.5, .serving as chairman oC the committee on claims in the 56th con- gress.

QRAFTON, Charles Chapman, second bishop of Fond du Lac, Wis., and 150th in succession in the American episcopate, was born in Boston, Mass.. April 13, 1830; son of Maj. Joseph and Anna M. (Gurley) Grafton; grandson of J. Graf- ton of Salem, Mass., and a descendant of Richard Grafton, historian, and printer of the first edition of the Book of Common Prayer, 1550. He was educated at the Bos- ton Latin school and L,raduated from the Harvard law school in 1853. After grad- uating he decided to enter the ministry and studied under Bishop Whittingliam t^l i /^ C^ Pi .. of Maryland. He was

Uuudt^ Ko >/rwlt57C ^ade deacon, Dec. 23. 1855, and ordained priest. May 30, 1858. He was assistant at Reister- town, Maryland, 1856, and missionary at Balti- more, 1857. He was assistant minister of St.

Paul's church in Baltimore and chaplain of the Maryland Deaconesses, 1859-64. With the Rev. Richard Meux Benson, he organized in 1865 the Society of the mission priests of St. John the Evangelist in Oxford, England. He began in 1873 at Boston the American braucli of this relig- ious brotherhood, coiumonly known as the " Cowley Fathers." He was rector of the Church of the Advent, Boston, Mass., 1873-88. He founded the American branch of the sisterhood of St. Margaret, an order of nursing sisters; and also founded the community of the Sisterhood of the Holy Nativity, establishing the mother house at Providence, R.I., 1888, and a branch house at Fond du Lac. He was consecrated second bishop of Fond du Lac, Wis., April 35, 1889, by Bishops McLaren, Burgess, Seymour, Knickerbocker, Gil- bert and Knight. He founded at Fond du Lao the Cathedral choir school, an endowed school for training choristers and choir masters, and Grafton Hall, a Iiigh-grade school for young ladies. He received the degree of D.D. from Ra- cine college in 1889. He is the author of Voca- tion., or the Call of the Divine Master to a Sister's Life and Flain Snr/rifstions for a Iti-verent Celebra- tion of the IIiiliJ Cnintaiiiiinn.

GRAHAM, Campbell, soldier, was born in Prince William county, Va., April 1, 1800; son of William and Mary (Campbell) Graham. He was graduated from the U.S. military academj', July 1, 1833. receiving assignment as 3d lieutenant in the 3d artillerj'. He was promoted 1st lieutenant, Sept. 11, 1838; ser%'ed_in the Florida war, 183.5-36, where he was brevetted captain, Dec. 31, 1835, for gallantry and good conduct in the affair on the Withlacoochee, where he received two severe wounds; was brevetted captain of the staff and made assistant topographical engineer, Nov. 33, 1837; was promoted captain of the corps of topo- graphical engineers, July 7, 1838; served as su- perintending topographical engineer of surveys and improvements in various states, 1839-53; was inspector of Pacific coast lighthouses, 1854-55; was on the staff of the commanding general of the department of the Pacific, 1855-56; was pro- moted major of the corps of topographical engi- neers, Dec. 9, 1857, and was retired Sept. 9, 1861, for disability resulting from wounds received in battle and disease contracted in the line of dutj'. He died at B^iltiiiiore. Jld., Nov. 8, 1866.

QRAHAM, Charles Kinnaird, engineer, was born in New York city, June 3, 1834. He re- ceived a liberal education and entered the U.S. service as a midshipman in 1841. During the Mexican war he served actively in the Gulf of Mexico tiU 1848, wlien he resigned, returned to New York city and took up the study of engineer- ing. In 1857 he became constructing engineer at the Brooklyn navy yard and superintended the