Dallas County IA Archives Biographies.....Graham, Morris Jackson 1853 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1896)

MORRIS JACKSON GRAHAM, who is engaged in the nursery business near Adel, Iowa,
is a man well known in Dallas county and one whose business is rapidly extending
throughout the State. It is fitting that a resume of his life be accorded place
in this connection.

   Morris J. Graham was born in Wabash, Indiana, December 6, 1853; son of
Franklin S. and Irabell (Rotsell) Graham. Franklin S. Graham removed from
Ashland, Ohio, his native place, to Indiana in 1852, and the year following the
birth of Morris J. came on out west to Iowa, making the journey hither by team,
and settling on a tract of Government land in Dallas county, where he improved a
farm and reared his family of five children, all of whom are still living. For
the past ten years he has made his home in southern Missouri.

   The subject of our sketch grew up on his father's farm, received his
education at Adel, and continued to reside with his parents until his marriage,
that important event occurring in the year 1875. After his marriage he secured a
clerkship in the store of Risser & Son at Adel, with whom he remained several
years. Next, he became a partner in a clothing store, in which he was occupied
up to 1883. That year he bought twenty-two acres of wild land,—land covered with
stumps,—built a house on it, and moved there in June. The first year of his
residence on this place he set out five acres to fruit and orchard, and each
subsequent year has set out more until now he has seventeen of the twenty-two
acres devoted to fruit and nursery stock. It was in 1890 that he started his
nursery. To this business he has given his close attention, making a special
study of the needs and adaptation of Iowa, and has met with most excellent
success. He now has agents in different parts of the State-and is rapidly
building up an industry that is of marked importance and value to the farmers of
Iowa.

   Mr. Graham was married April 11, 1875, to Miss Eva A. Loomis, and they are
the parents of five children, namely: William Arthur, C. Edwin, George W.,
Franklin L. and D. S. Politically, he affiliates with the Republican party, his
first presidential vote having been cast for Mr. Hayes. Fraternally, he is
identified with the Modern Woodmen of America, and religiously he is a
Presbyterian.


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A MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF IOWA

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CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1896

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