BIO: Duncan M. GRAHAM, Cumberland County, PA
    
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    >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
    Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, page 48
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    DUNCAN M. GRAHAM, Esq., the son of James H. Graham and Mary Criswell
  Graham, received his preparatory education in the common schools of Carlisle
  and the preparatory school of Dickinson College. He entered Dickinson and
  graduated after the full four years' course in the class of 1873. After
  graduation he was attached for two years to the United States ship
  "Portsmouth" in a surveying expedition and taking deep sea soundings in the
  Pacific ocean. Upon his return to Carlisle he entered the office of his
  father, Judge Graham, with whom he studied law, and was admitted to practice
  in August, 1876. Mr. Graham has been engaged in the practice of his
  profession from that time to the present. He has filled the offices of city
  and county solicitor acceptably to the people. and in 1891 was appointed
  assistant to Hon. W. U. Hensel, attorney general of the State, a position he
  held for four years. He is the author of several statutes now in force in
  Pennsylvania. One permitting illegitimate children born of the same mother to
  inherit real and personal property from each other remedied what was regarded
  as a great injustice and has been adopted by a number of States. Another
  relating to tramps and vagrants has saved the taxpayers many thousands of
  dollars. As secretary of the Board of Examiners of the Cumberland county Bar
  he took a deep interest in reforming the system of admitting law students to
  the Bar and aided in the establishing of the State Board of Examiners
  appointed by the Supreme Court.
    Mr. Graham married, in 1893, Mary Latimer Coble, of Carlisle, and of the
  children born to this union, three daughters, Mary, Elizabeth and Sarah, are
  now living. Mr. Graham is president of the board of trustees of the Second
  Presbyterian Church, and interested in everything that makes for the good of
  the community.