BIO:  GRAZIANI, B. F., Campbell Co., KY
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Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 7th ed., 1887,
Campbell Co.

B. F. GRAZIANI was born in Campbell County, Ky., November 16, 1858, and
is the youngest child of a family of nine born to Charles and Emma (Sanham)
Graziani.  His education was secured in the common schools of his native
county, and in 1868 he went to Covington, Ky., attended the law schools at
Cincinnati, where he graduated May 28, 1884.  He at once opened a law
office in Covington.  He is a natural-born lawyer, an original thinker,
and an able speaker.  Success similar to his has seldom been achieved, he
by his own efforts, unaided by an established partner or by wealth, having
built up a State reputation.  His criminal practice has been very large, he
having prosecuted and defended in as many important cases as any lawyer of
his age in the State.  He is a member of the I.O.O.F, and has passed all
the chairs; he is also a member of the Encampment, a member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, and politically a Democrat.  His father was
born at Oneglia, Province of Genoa, Italy, in 1806.  Being a Democrat
before his day, he was politically exiled in 1841.  He was a son of Count
of Oneglia, and by right of inheritance, had he remained in Italy, would
have succeeded to his father's title, but becoming restless, and opposed
to the oppressions of the despotic kings and principalities of which Italy
in those days abounded, he, before the time was ripe, attempted what
was afterward consummated by Garabaldi and Victor Emanuel, to wit.: the
unification of Italy with one king, which was accomplished in 1870. The
Count came to the United States in 1845, landed at New York, but
immediately went to Cincinnati.  He was an artist, and was killed while
sketching on the steamer, "Gen. Lytle", the boiler of which exploded
below Madison, Ind., on the Ohio River, August 6, 1866.  The mother of
B. F. Graziani was a native of England; she died August 21, 1882.  When
our subject was eleven years old he acted as a cash boy in Cincinnati
for C. W. Deland and L. C. Hopkins for about eighteen months; and was a
salesman for John Shillito, of Cincinnati, for two years, and was also
associated with C. S. Weatherby for some time.

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