Dr. Charles Henry Graff

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Husband Dr. Charles Henry Graff ^{1 2}

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           Born: 10 Nov 1854 - Kittanning, Armstrong Co, PA 1
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           Died: 29 Sep 1889 1 2
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         Father: Peter Graff (1808-1890) 3 4 5 6 7 8
         Mother: Susannah Lobingier (      -      ) 8

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General Notes: Husband - Dr. Charles Henry Graff

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GONE TO HIS REST.
Chas. H. Graff was born and brought up at Kittanning, Pennsylvania, and would have been 35 years old had he lived until November. He graduated from Gettysburg college in 1876, and from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1879. The following two years he spent in the hospitals of Vienna and the University of Gottingen, coming to Duluth in 1881. Some time afterward he went to Sweden and studied the Swedish language and attended lectures in the city of Stockholm. In 1887-8 he spent a year in foreign travel, passing the winter in Egypt and the Holy Land. If one word had to be chosen to characterize Dr. Graff, that word would be "student." He was an omnivorous reader, and his studies were by no means confined to subjects related to his profession, but ran out along many lines of science, literature and art. It might almost be said that he sacrificed his life to his insatiable thirst for knowledge, for many a time after a day spent in the arduous duties of his profession, he has spent the entire night in reading and study, depriving himself of needed rest and using up the strength which might have brought him out a conqueror in the struggle with disease.
His father and mother are still living at Kittanning, but unable by reason of their more than 80 years to come and follow their son to the grave. Two brothers, Peter, of Utica, New York, and Edmund D., of Kittanning, are now here, besides Phillip Melanchthon, who resides in Duluth, a younger brother, Frank, from Kittanning, and his sister, Mrs. Wm. Kirkpatrick, of Pittsburgh, are now on the way and expected on Tuesday. It has been decided that the burial will be in Duluth, but the time of the funeral will be announced hereafter.
He occupied a place in the front ranks of his profession; his great skill, both as a physician and surgeon, made his services in constant demand. The income from his practice, supplemented by wise investments, had gained for him a competence. Learned in his profession, cultured in mind, genial in nature, and generous in heart, Dr. Graff will be sadly missed and deeply mourned not only by those who are connected with him by ties of blood, but by friends, many and warm. Eulogies will be spoken, and a monument reared over his last resting-place, but the truest, grandest tribute which will be paid to the worth of Dr. Graff, will be the tears and blessings of the hundreds of poor, to whom, in sickness or accident, he not only gave freely of his time and skill, but of his means as well, providing for those who were unable to procure them for themselves, the medicines and dainty food that brought them back to health.

OBITUARY.
DR. C. H. GRAFF, A PENNSYLVANIAN, WHO WON DISTINCTION AND
WEALTH IN DULUTH.
ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 29, [Special].-Dr. C. H. Graff, one of the many Pennsylvanians for whose adoption of Minnesota as their home this State has reason to be gratified, died at Duluth this morning at the age of 34 years. He was taken sick a month ago with typhoid fever.
Dr. Graff had been a resident of Duluth for about nine years, and stood at the very head of the medical fraternity, having a very large practice. He graduated in the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1879, and afterwards went to Heidelberg, where he also graduated. Twice since he located in Duluth he has been in Europe, studying at both Vienna and Stockholm. On one of these visits he made a trip through Italy, Turkey, Egypt and Asia Minor.
He was elected coroner of St. Louis County, in which Duluth is located, in 1884, by nearly 2,000 majority, running on the Democratic ticket. He was always a hard student, reading until 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning alter a hard day's work. This overwork caused such a weakening of his vital forces that he could not resist the attack of the disease. His brother, Phillip Melanchthon Graff, is a resident of Duluth, and his brothers, Ed. D. Graff, of Pennsylvania, and Peter Graff, of Utica, N. Y., are now in Duluth, while another brother and a sister are on the way. Dr. Graff was never married. He leaves a large amount of property, mostly in real estate and other investments, in Duluth and the vicinity.

A PROFESSORSHIP ENDOWED.
Special Telegram to the Times.
GETTYSBURG, Oct. 31.-Peter Graff, of Worthington, has an-nounced the gift of $25,000 out of the estate of his son, Charles H. Graff, M. D., who died recently in Duluth, Minn., to endow a professorship in Pennsylvania College at Gettysburg, to be known as "The Dr. Charles H. Graff Professorship of Hygiene and Physical Culture." Dr. George D. Staley, of Lebanon, formerly of Harrisburg, has been chosen to fill the chair.

1 Paul Graff, History of the Graff Family of Westmoreland County (Philadelphia, PA: Privately published(?), 1891), Pg 73.

2 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 329.

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

4 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 328.

5 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (NW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 16.

6 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. IV (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 141.

7 Paul Graff, History of the Graff Family of Westmoreland County (Philadelphia, PA: Privately published(?), 1891), Pg 70.

8 Kenneth Lobingier, Genealogy of the Lobingier Family 1374 - 1974 (Mt. Pleasant, PA: Privately published, 1974), Pg 13.