Alexander Graham    

ALEXANDER GRAHAM, liveryman, Beaver Falls, was born in Venango county, Pa., Dec. 12, 1840, and is a son of John and Sarah (Stevenson) Graham, of English and Irish descent. His parents settled in Rochester, this county, in 1847, and died there. Their children were Robert, Henry, Mary, Alexander, David, Perry and John. Alexander was reared in Rochester and vicinity from seven years of age. He was engaged in various occupations after reaching his majority up to 1871, when he located in Beaver Falls and embarked in the livery business, in which he has been successfully engaged up to the present time. July 2, 1861, he married Elizabeth, daughter of Nicholas and Elizabeth (Gehring) Phillips, of an old family of Beaver county, and has four children living: Mary (Mrs. Robert Todd), John, Wesley and Stella. Mr. Graham is a F. & A.M., a member of the I.O.O.F., A.O.U.W. and K. of P. Politically he is a Democrat.

History of Beaver County, including its early settlement; its erection into a separate county; its subsequent growth and development; sketches of its boroughs, villages and townships; portraits of some of its prominent men; biographies of many of its representative citizens; statistics, etc. by J. F. Richard; A. Warner & Co., Publishers, 1888. More Beaver County History Books  Search Hundreds of 1880s-1890s Pennsylvania County History Books for biographies and historical information on your ancestors.  View the book page images on line and print them out for your genealogy file! Free Access to the old history books - plus birth & death records, census images and ALL other records at ancestry.com