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who are distinguished among their fellows as gallant soldiers. He mustered a company in Johnstown in 1861, and being appointed its captain, started for the war. From that time until May 15, 1864, he was in active service, but in the battle of New Market, Virginia, he received a wound which nearly proved fatal. At that time he was left on the field for dead, but was picked up by the rebels, and after much suffering recovered. They, however, held him for nine months and a half as a prisoner at Harrisonburg, Virginia, and he was afterwards taken to Macon, Georgia, Charlestown, South Carolina, Columbus, South Carolina, and Goldsborough, North Carolina, when he was released. He then came home to Johnstown, where he has remained ever since, and filled for one term the office of justice of the peace, and at present is serving his second term as alderman. It is meet to say that in his civil service Captain Graham shows the same faithfulness and efficiency which characterized his military life.     He is a son of Daniel and Liddie (Idding) Graham, and was born November 15, 1817. His great-grandfather Graham was a native of Scotland, and married a lady from County Tyrone, Ireland, where Patrick Graham, grandfather, was born. The grandfather ran away from home in boyhood and came to America, where he followed the occupation of farming during the remainder of his life. He took no active part in politics, but was a staunch democrat. He married Elizabeth McKee, a descendant in direct line from the McKee family which settled in Jamestown under Capt. John Smith. Mr. Graham's maternal grandparents were of German extraction.     Daniel Graham, father of our subject, was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, and was a farmer the greater part of his life.

About four years of his early life were spent in the manufacture of salt near Freeport, Pennsylvania. He was a republican, and for fifteen years was justice of the peace in Butler county, Pennsylvania. He had thirteen children, five of whom served in the Civil War.     Captain Patrick Graham is principally a self-educated man, having built a small room in which he spent his evenings in the study of the common branches. Previous to his enlistment as a soldier, he had various occupations and a busy life. He was timekeeper during the building of the Pennsylvania canal, and followed this occupation until about 1832. He then learned the tailor trade, which constituted his employment until 1844, and at intervals until 1852. After that he was employed by the Brady's Bend Iron company, of Brady's Bend, Pennsylvania, for about three years, in the capacity of heater. At the expiration of this time he was elected justice of the peace of that place and served four years. He resigned this office and came to Johnstown, entering the service of Wood, Morrell & Co., as heater, in which occupation he continued for six years. At this point his war history begins.     Captain Graham has been twice married. March 24, 1837, he married Miss Magdalene C. Hamble, who died December 15, 1868. She was the mother of seven children, four sons and three daughters. Given in the order of their birth they are as follows: Jane, married to Stephen B. Gregory, at present living in Johnstown; Martha W., wife of Robert Bennett, a resident of Braddock, Pennsylvania; May E., married to John Hutzen, residing in Braddock, Pennsylvania; John T., married to Eliza Moore, died in Johnstown; Robert Smiley, who married Jennie

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