Preston County, West Virginia          Biography of James Abraham GRAHAM M.D. 

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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.
Chicago and New York, Volume II, Page 379

     James Abraham Graham M.D. has been engaged in the practice of his
profession in West Virginia for more than a quarter of a century, and
for the past twenty years has been successfully established in active
general practice in the city of Fairmont, Marion Co. He was born in
Oreston, this state, April 10, 1868, and is of Scotch lineage. His
grandfather, Samuel Graham, was a professor in Preston Co., and there
David Graham, father of the Doctor, was born in 1836. His death occurred
in 1892 and his entire active career was given to farm enterprise. He
was a gallant soldier of the Union in the Civil War as a lieutenant in a
West Virginia regiment. His wife, whose maiden name was Martha Field,
likewise was a native of Preston Co., where she was born in 1840.
   
   Doctor Graham attended the common schools and summer normal schools,
and as a young man was a successful teacher in the schools of his native
county for three years. In 1896 he graduated from historic old Jefferson
Medical College in the City of Philadelphia, and in the same year he
engaged in practice at Kingwood, judicial center of his native county.
Five years later he returned to Jefferson Medical College for a
post-graduate course, and since 1902 he has been established in practice
at Fairmont. He is an honored member of the Marion Co. Medical Society
and holds membership also in the West Virginia State Medical Society and
the American Medical Association.
     
     At Kingwood, Preston County, in 1898, Doctor Graham wedded Miss
Orpha Christopher, daughter of Irvin and Mary ( King) Christopher, she
having been born in that county in the year 1874. Doctor and Mrs. Graham
have four children, whose names and respective dates of birth are here
recorded: Pauline (Mrs. Lose), April 25, 1899; James P., October 19,
1904; Ben Irvin, September 17, 1912; and David Field, June 7, 1916.