My Genealogy Hound

JOHN K. GRAHAM, farmer, post office Boston, is a son of Robert and Margaret (Gilchrist) Graham, natives of Lancaster county, Pa., and afterward residents of Butler county. They removed to this county in 1815, and purchased a farm near Boston, where they lived until their deaths, in 1840 and 1839, respectively. Robert Graham was a soldier in the war of 1812. He had five children, all of whom are dead except our subject, who was the youngest, and was born in Butler county, April 4, 1815, and was brought to this county by his parents when two months old. He received the benefits of the schools of that place, and has been engaged principally in farming, but operated some in real estate. In 1843 he was married to Mary A., daughter of John and Margaret Calhoun, of this township. She died in 1851, leaving four children, all of whom are since dead. Our subject married, in 1853, his second wife, Eliza, daughter of Robert Rankin, who settled in Elizabeth township in 1839. They have two children living: Samuel A. and Sarah J., both at home. Mr. Graham has held several township offices. He and his family are members of the U. P. Church of Buena Vista, he being a member of the sessions of that church.