BIO: James Graham, Cumberland County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Judy Bookwalter Copyright 2011. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/cumberland/ ______________________________________________________________________ History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania. Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages, Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc. Illustrated. Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886. http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/cumberland/beers/beers.htm ______________________________________________________________________ PART II. HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. CHAPTER LIX. UPPER ALLEN TOWNSHIP. 567 UPPER ALLEN TOWNSHIP. JAMES GRAHAM, farmer, Mechanicsburg. In presenting the name of this gentleman it can be pointed with pride to his long line of ancestry who have been for so many years identified with the business interests of the county and township, whose titles to lands bear the signature of William Penn, and have never changed ownership, save as they have descended from father to son, and from uncle to nephew. His great- great-grandfather, James Graham, settled on the farm now owned by our subject in 1685, having emigrated from Ireland. James Graham, the grandfather of our subject, was the eld- 568 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES: est son, and married Miss Lytle, of Lancaster County, Penn., who bore him five children, and of whom John, the father of our subject, was the second son. John Graham was married, in 1811, to Miss Helen Taylor, of Halifax, Dauphin Co., Penn., and two sons and four daughters blessed their union, but all left home in the course of time except James Graham, Jr., who was presented by his uncle, James Graham, Sr., with the farm on which he has lived for so many years. He (James Graham, Jr.) was born June 25, 1823; was married in the autumn of 1849, to Miss Louisa S. Stalter, of Bedford County, Penn., and has three daughters living: Ella, married to Martin L. Granville; Louisa married to A. B. Clarks, of the United States Navy, and Burdetta; three daughters are deceased. Mr. Graham has served as assessor, and has acceptably filled other township offices. He and his wife have always been ardent members of the Presbyterian Church. They are hale and hearty, and expect to enjoy many years of happiness.