Sac County IA Archives Biographies.....Graham, J. C. 1844 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1893)

J. C. GRAHAM, a merchant of Early, Iowa, engaged in the hardware trade, is the
subject of this sketch. He engaged in business here in 1883, which was the year
that the town first started. He came to Sac county in 1869, locating in Delaware
township, on wild land, and here he erected a fair one-and-a-half-story house,
14 x 18 feet, put up barns and out-buildings, and also planted a grove of three
acres in extent. He was born in Montreal, Canada, in 1844, and was the son of
Luke and Mary (Green) Graham, who later moved to Ohio, and followed the trade of
baker in Cleveland, until 1853, when he came to Iowa and opened up a farm in
Delaware county, removing to Earlville in 1874; and now both parents reside at
Odebolt. They have reared a family of five children, three sons and two
daughters. William enlisted in Company B, Fourth Iowa Cavalry, but now resides
at Odebolt.

  From the age of nine years our subject was reared in Iowa, and attended the
schools of Delaware county. He came to Sac county when it was still new and took
quite an active part in its early history. He taught school for eleven terms in
the county; has been Justice of the Peace, Town Clerk and a member of the School
Board of the town of Early.

  Our subject was married in Delaware county, in 1870, to Miss Elizabeth Eiden,
who was born in Canada, a daughter of William and Eliza (Parker) Eiden, now of
Early, who came to the county in 1886. They had been pioneers in Delaware
county, in 1852. Mr. and Mrs. Graham have two children, Ethel, a graduate of
Cornell College, now a teacher of vocal and instrumental music; and William. Mr.
Graham is a member of the St. Elmo Lodge, Eo. 462, A. F. & A. M., and has been
Secretary of the order for three years. Both he and his wife are members of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, and he is one of the Trustees. He is a Republican in
his political leaning, always ready to assert the superiority of that party.

  Mr. Graham has a very prosperous hardware business in this little, thriving
place, carrying a full stock of hardware, pumps, stoves and like articles
usually found in a first-class place. He has seen the development of the country
since he came to the State, and remembers well when the first railroad was built
as far as Storm Lake, in 1870. When he first came here he had to go as far as
Fort Dodge for milling purposes. He has seen many changes and has passed through
many vicissitudes, one of the trials being the great grasshopper pest of 1874,
but perseverance and integrity have carried him through all, and he is now one
of the substantial men of the township.


Additional Comments:
Extracted From:

BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF 
Crawford, Ida and Sac Counties, Iowa.

Containing Portraits of all the Presidents of the United States, with
accompanying Biographies; a Condensed History of Iowa, with Portraits and
Biographies of the Governors of the State; Engravings of Prominent Citizens of
the Counties, wth [sic] Personal Histories of many of the Early Settlers and
Leading Families.

"Biography is the only true history."—Emerson.

CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY.
1893.


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