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WILLIAM GRAHAM, farmer, P.O. Black Hawk, was born in South Beaver township in 1824. Andrew, his father, came to Beaver county at an early age from Ireland and purchased fifty acres of land in Beaver township. He married Mary, daughter of Robert McCloy, of Beaver county. To this couple twelve children were born, three of whom are living. Andrew, at his death in 1868, owned 157 acres of land; he was eighty years of age. His wife died in 1870 aged eighty-five years. William now owns the homestead, where he has always lived. He is not married. In politics he votes the Democratic ticket. 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
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