Northumberland-Juniata County PA Archives Biographies.....Graham, W. T. 1862 - 

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DR. W. T. GRAHAM,* who is unexcelled in Northumberland County as a physician and

surgeon, is acting in that capacity for the Pennsylvania Railroad and is one of

the foremost citizens of Sunbury. He is a son of Dr. G. M. and Rebecca (Kelley)

Graham, and was born in Juniata County, Pa., November 27, 1862.



  The family is of Scotch-Irish stock, and its members were among the early

pioneer settlers of Central Pennsylvania, where William Graham, our subject's

great-grandfather, located, buying a tract of one hundred acres of land on the

south side of Tuscarora Creek, in what is now Spruce Hill township, Juniata

County, for the paltry sum of three dollars per acre. He cleared part of the

land and during the remainder of his life was engaged in its cultivation. His

son, John Graham, the grandfather of our subject, was born upon this property,

which he was engaged in cultivating until 1837, when he moved to Cumberland

County, near Carlisle, and tilled the soil the remainder of his life, dying in

1867, after attaining the age of eighty-four years. He was a man of exceptional

business qualifications and good judgment. He formed a matrimonial alliance with

Polly Turbett, a daughter of Col. Turbett, who was actively engaged in the

battle at Princeton, and others of prominence in the Revolutionary War. This

union resulted in the birth of ten children, the youngest of whom was Dr. G. M.

Graham.



  Dr. G. M. Graham was born in Spruce Hill township in 1829, and obtained his

intellectual training in the Tuscarora Academy and Dickinson College of

Carlisle, Pa., after which he took up the study of medicine and was graduated

from the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia in 1853. He immediately after

located in Perrysville, now Port Royal, and acquired a lucrative practice, doing

a vast amount of work in the surgical line, as he was especially efficient in

performing operations. He was for many years an elder in the Presbyterian

Church. At 6 o'clock a. m., June 1, 1854, he was joined in wedlock to Rebecca

Kelley, and they became the parents of four children, three sons and one

daughter, all of whom grew to maturity. Mrs. Graham was a daughter of Joseph

Kelley, M. D., a native of Lancaster County, who was born November 19, 1795. He

was a graduate of the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, and

located in Spruce Hill township, where he was a prominent physician. He lived a

long and useful life, dying in 1887, at the age of eighty-two years. Religiously

he was an elder in the Presbyterian Church for many years. He chose as his

companion in life Anna Breson Stewart, who died in 4870, aged sixty-five years,

and who was a descendant of the Stewarts, a prominent family of Scotland.



  Dr. W. T. Graham was educated in the Port Royal Academy and in Dickinson

College, from which he graduated in 1886, after which he read medicine with his

father for some time, and was graduated from the Jefferson Medical College in

1889, after which he remained at home for one year, and then moved to Miner's

State Hospital at Ashland, Pa. He served for two years as assistant surgeon of

that institution, and in 1893 removed to Sunbury, and has since been surgeon for

the Pennsylvania Railroad and carried on a general practice. He is also a member

of the Northumberland County Medical Association. During his brief residence in

Sunbury Dr. Graham has become firmly established in the good will and affection

of the people.





Additional Comments:

* The information contained in this biography was supplied by the subject of

this sketch. A type-set copy of the biography was sent to the subject to be

proof-read, but the subject did not edit and return the copy, so this biography

may contain typographical errors.



  Extracted from:

    

    Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District

    Published by 

    Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY (1899)





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