Sumner Graff and Sarah E. Geary

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Husband Sumner Graff ^{1 2}

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           Born: 6 Sep 1865 - near Hillside, Westmoreland Co, PA 1 2
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         Father: Henry Graff (1826-1899) 2 3
         Mother: Margaret Wilkinson (      -1912) 4

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       Marriage: 24 Dec 1891 1

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Wife Sarah E. Geary ¹

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         Father: Robert Geary (      -      ) 1
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1 M Robert Stanley Graff ¹

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2 F Margaret A. Graff ¹

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3 M Raymond G. Graff ¹

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4 F Sarah E. Graff ¹

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5 F Emma Lucile Graff ¹

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6 F Martha Belle Graff ¹

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General Notes: Husband - Sumner Graff

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He received excellent public school advantages. He learned farm work at home with his father and continued to follow agricultural pursuits until 1901, when he settled in the village of Blacklick, Indiana County, Pennsylvania, and took up mercantile business. He later followed general merchandising and also became interested in the meat business, erecting a slaughter house, so that he could do his own butchering, also buying the cattle. He continued to have agricultural interests, having bought the Andrew Simpson place of 132 acres, the cultivation of which he managed. He continued to own and reside on the farm, and had all modern improvements on the place. In 1907 he cut up part of his farm (thirty-two acres of the Andrew Simpson place) into building lots, having two hundred, on which fifty houses, two stores and a public school were eventually built. The little town was known as Grafton, and his successful management of this real estate project has made Mr. Graff known as one of the enterprising real estate men of his locality. Mr. Graff was one of the organizers of the First National Bank of Blacklick, which he served as vice president and member of the board of directors.
He and his wife were members of the M. E. Church. Mr. Graff accepted religion and joined the church in 1885, at the age of twenty years, and like his father he was active and zealous in its work. He was assistant superintendent of the Sunday school and took part in all the church activities. A firm believer in temperance, he was a stanch supporter of the Prohibition party and its principles.

1 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 713.

2 Paul Graff, History of the Graff Family of Westmoreland County (Philadelphia, PA: Privately published(?), 1891), Pg 48.

3 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 711.

4 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 712.