James L. Graham Biography - Grant County Wisconsin

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Submitted by David W. Taft, dtaft @ cowtown.net

History of Grant County Wisconsin
Western Historical Publishing, Chicago, July 1881
Town of Waterloo, Biographical Sketches, Page 1037

JAMES L. GRAHAM, blacksmith; P. O. Burton; born March 27, 1837, in Virginia; son 
of Alexander and Elizabeth (Deigh) Graham; came to Grant Co. in 1860; at Big 
Patch two years.  On July 4,1862, he enlisted in Co. F, 20th W. V. I., and was 
out three years.  Married Aug. 13, 1866, by B. F. Mayne, of Platteville, to Mary 
E., daughter of Pliny and Rosanna (Bulson) Holmes, born June 13,1848; they have 
no children.  In 1855, Mr. Graham struck a lead one mile south of Fair Play, and 
sold one fourth interest for $4,000 his partners - Cook, Kincade and Mace - are 
all dead; Mace became a prominent man arid resided at Dubuque, where he died a 
year ago.