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HUGH C. GRAHAM, attorney, was born in what is now Concord township, Butler county, Pennsylvania, June 28, 1832, the fifth of a family of eleven children, of whom all grew to maturity and nine are yet living. The two deceased were William L. and David H. The latter died from the effects of a fever contracted while in the service of his country in the late Rebellion. Edward Graham, the father, was well and favorably known as a well-to-do farmer at the time of his death. Hugh C. Graham remained at home assisting his father in the various labors incident to farm life until about twenty years of age, receiving in the meantime such advantages as the district schools of his neighborhood afforded. At the age mentioned he determined upon securing a thorough education, and giving up farm life entered Witherspoon Institute, at Butler, Pennsylvania, where he acquired what might be termed an academic education. In the spring of 1859 he registered as a law student with John M. Thompson and remained under his able tuition until admitted to the bar of Butler county, March 25, 1861. In December of that year he formed a partnership with Charles McCandless. In August, 1862, he enlisted in Company G, One Hundred and Thirty-Seventh Pennsylvania Volunteers, and remained in active service until mustered out with his regiment in June, 1863. He was married October 11, 1864, to Augusta Carnahan, daughter of Robert Carnahan, deceased. To this union have been born the following children: Charles Edward, born July 22, 1865, now in business in Oil City as a member of the hardware firm of McKerrow, Graham & Company, and Sarah Carnahan, born October 21, 1873, a member of the Senior class of the Oil City high school, which graduates in June, 1890. Mr. Graham removed with his family to Oil City in June, 1865, and has been successful in building up a lucrative business. He is a Republican in politics, and has always been an active politician and an ardent advocate of the principles of his party. During his residence in Oil City he has held the office of school director and represented his ward in the city council during the years 1877 and 1878. He has never been an office-seeker, never having asked for any office except as member of the legislature, for which he was nominated by his party in 1886, but owing to the utter demoralization of the party that year in the twenty-seventh congressional district, he was defeated. Mr. Graham is at present and has been since its organization, a member of the board of managers of Grove Hill Cemetery Association, and since 1877 has been secretary of the board. To him, as much, if not more than to any other member of the board, is due the success that the cemetery has attained.
History of Venango County, Pennsylvania
: its past and present, including its aboriginal history, the French and
British occupation of the country, its early settlement and subsequent
growth, a description of its historic and interesting localities, its rich
oil deposits and their development, sketches of its cities, boroughs,
townships, and villages, neighborhood and family history, portraits and
biographies of pioneers and representative citizens, statistics, etc.,
etc. .
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