Graham, Harry L.

Harry L. Graham. Among the leading lawyers of Butler County is Harry L. Graham. He was born August 5, 1870, in Concord Township, this county, the son of Thomas Graham, a farmer, who died in 1912, and Nancy (Borland) Graham, who died in 1914. The family was one of the oldest to settle in Butler County, the immigrants coming from Scotland and Ireland.

Harry L. Graham prepared for college at the North Washington Academy. He was graduated from Wooster University in 1893 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and received the degree of Master of Arts in 1895. He established himself in practice the same year under his own name and has continued to the present. He practices in the courts, State and Federal, and maintains general law offices in the Butler County National Bank Building in Butler. Mr. Graham is a Republican in politics. For eighteen years he was director of public schools, and for twelve years he was secretary. He was the chief promoter of the Senior High School for Butler, which occupies one of the finest school buildings in Western Pennsylvania. Mr. Graham has seen service in the Ohio National Guard and the National Guard of Pennsylvania, Company E, Fifteenth Regiment, in which he was senior corporal. During the World War he gave largely of his time to home activities, such as Liberty Loan campaigns, Red Cross work, questionnaires, and "four-minute" speeches, in which he was one of the most active and received a certificate for his services.

Mr. Graham is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and is a past noble grand of Lodge No. 278. He is a member of the Knights of Malta and has passed through all the chairs of that fraternity. He is a Woodman of the World, a member of the Knights of Maccabees, and the Delta Tau Delta college fraternity. He was one of the founders of the University Club. which afterward became the Sterling Club. He is a member of the Butler County Historical Society, and was one of its founders and organizers. He is a member of the vestry of St. Peter's Episcopal Church, and is treasurer of St. Peter's Parish.

Mr. Graham was married in 1900 to Julia S. Creigh of Washington, Pennsylvania, daughter of William and Martha (Wishart) Creigh. They are the parents of Harry L. Graham, Jr., a graduate of Washington and Jefferson College in the class of 1922, where he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts; and of William C. Graham, a student in the Junior High School.

History of Butler County, Pa, 1927