Greene County IN Archives Biographies.....Graham, Charles 1839 - 
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Author: Goodspeed (1884)

   CHARLES GRAHAM, insurance agent and farmer, was born April 13, 1839, and is
the sixth child born to Samuel and Polly (Killgore) Graham, natives of Ohio and
Tennessee respectively. Samuel Graham came from Daviess County, Ind., to Greene
County in 1838, where he held the office of the Justice of the Peace for
twenty-four years in Jackson Township. Charles came with his father from Daviess
County, and remained at home until the beginning [sic] of the war, when, at the
first call for troops to put down the rebellion, he was one of seven who were
the first in the town of Owensburg to enlist. He held the office of Sergeant, in
Thirty-first Indiana Volunteer Infantry, Company H; was in the first attack on
Fort Donelson; was at the siege of Atlanta, and served as Private Orderly under
Maj. Gen. Stanley at the fall of Atlanta. In April, 1864, he returned home from
the war, where he had performed many gallant services for his country. One
remarkable incident was the meeting of three brothers with whom he dined on the
Resaca battlefield. After the war, Mr. Graham engaged in farming, and for a
number of years, in connection with this, has acted as agent for the American
Insurance Company of Chicago, and the Continental of New York, in which capacity
he has been very successful. He owns 120 acres of land near Owensburg, mostly in
blue grass pasture, and on this he raises considerable fine stock. His
advantages for an early education were limited to only such as were afforded by
the primitive schools. He is a self-made man of the day, all he is worth has
been gained by his own energy and industry. Mr. Graham was married to Catharine
E. Wharton, of Owensburg, in 1866, and to them have been born three
children—Lettie, Ella and Willie. He is a Republican, belongs to the I. O. O.
F., and he and wife are members of the Christian Church.

Additional Comments:
Jackson Township Biographies

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HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES,
STATE OF INDIANA,
FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC.

ILLUSTRATED.

CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS. & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1884.

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