Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 188, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1913 — Veteran Railroader Dead. [ARTICLE]

Veteran Railroader Dead.

William Graham, one of the earliest settlers of Grafton, W. Va., who was born in Preston county, W. Va., died, aged eighty years. He spent fifty years in the service of the Baltimore 4b Ohio railroad, having been placed on the retired list in 1900. His family were among the first settlers to cross the mountains and seek homes in the western portiop of what was then Virginia. He moved to Grafton fn 1861, and entered the Union army, was discharged with honor and resumed work with the railroad.