Green-Jefferson County KyArchives Biographies.....Graham, E.J. January 6 1840 - unknown
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Author: Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, Volume 5
E. J. GRAHAM, M. D., was born January 6, 1840, and is a son of Robert and 
Elizabeth (Young) Graham, to whom three sons and two daughters were born. 
Robert Graham was a native of Green County, Ky., born in October, 1804; was a 
millwright, also a farmer, and died in March, 1868. His wife was born June 14, 
1813, and died in July, 1883. Dr. Graham was also born in Green County. At 
twelve years of age he was sent to New Albany, Ind., to receive his education 
and learn a trade; spent four years in school, then returned to his native 
county of Green, and remained on the farm till September, 1861, when he 
enlisted in Company H, Thirteenth Kentucky Volunteers, was made orderly of his 
company and was mustered in as first lieutenant. He was in the battle of 
Shiloh and Bragg's rain through Kentucky, but on account of ill health 
resigned in July, 1863; after his return home commenced the study of medicine 
with Dr. T. P. Hodges; graduated from the medical department of the University 
of Louisville in 1866 and located in the western part of Green County, where
he has had an extensive and lucrative practice. He is president of the
Green River Medical Association, which position he has filled three years
in succession. He located where he now resides in November, 1885, on 250
acres, which is well improved, and embellished with a substantial frame
residence. He was first married in August, 1865, to Elizabeth, a daughter
of Stewart and Elizabeth (Jones) Sutherland. In February, 1868, he married
his second wife, Nancy Bale, a daughter of John and Dimmie (Lewis) Bale.
From this marriage sprang six children: John R., Edward Y., James H., Rutha
C., Alberta and William M. The Doctor's wife is a member of the Baptist
Church. The Doctor is a leading and influential member of the Masonic
fraternity and also of the I.O.O.F. He is one of the members of the board
of examining surgeons, and is politics is an active and uncompromising
Republican.



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