THOMAS GRAHAM - Biography

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This biography appears on page 671 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.

THOMAS GRAHAM, farmer, Sec. 11; P. O. Union Grove; born in
Dumfriesshire, Scotland, in 1818; went to Toronto, Canada, in 1832, with
his parents, and learned the carpenter trade while there; in 1837, left
them and went to Joliet, Ill., and, in 1840, came to Racine Co. and
worked at his trade till 1854; then located at Dover, and began farming.
He owns 300 acres of land in Sections 11, 12, 13, 14; has a very
comfortable residence and large barn on Sec. 11; He married, in Dover,
Dec. 16, 1847, Janette. Ballack a resident there, and have five
children- William B., born 1849; Henry I., 1851 ; Etta, 1858; Elmer,
1860; James E., 1867; all living, and attend the Presbyterian Church.