Albert Vanderlin Graham and Octavia A. Kellogg

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Husband Albert Vanderlin Graham ¹

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           Born: 4 Oct 1880 - Byrom Center, Allegheny Twp, Butler Co, PA 1
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         Father: Robert Dow Graham (      -Bef 1919) 1 2
         Mother: Matilda Ellen Vanderlin (      -Aft 1919) 1 2

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Wife Octavia A. Kellogg ¹

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           Born: 16 Oct 1883 3
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         Father: Lorenzo Dow Kellogg (1823-1900) 3 4
         Mother: Antoinette Wakelee (1841-1901) 3

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Children

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1 F Clara Antoinette Graham ³

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           Born: 13 Dec 1909 3
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2 F Margaret Ellen Graham ³

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           Born: 28 Jul 1911 3
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3 F Dorothy Irene Graham ³

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           Born: 7 Jul 1913 3
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4 M Joseph Vanderlin Graham ³

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           Born: 9 Jul 1915 3
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General Notes: Husband - Albert Vanderlin Graham

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He attended school at Neilltown, Forest County, PA. He was very young when he left his birthplace, spending part of his youth in McKean County and some time in Forest County, at what is now Queens Station, where he worked in the lumber woods. He assisted his father with the work on the farm until sixteen years old, when he began his life in the oil fields as a tool dresser for Greel, Benedict & Company, oil producers, continuing with them for two years. For another two years he dressed tools at Montpelier, Indiana County, PA, and then for seven years was in the service of Leslie Brothers & David Luton, becoming a full-fledged driller during that period and acquiring valuable general experience as well as special training for the work. Coming to Oil City he entered the employ of D. K. Johnson as driller, operating in Venango County for two or three years, and then for two years held the position of chief engineer with the Stoneboro & Chautauqua Lake Ice Company of Oil City. Having bought two strings of drilling tools in company with George McCandless he began business on his own account, later taking over two more outfits, and he and Mr. McCandless eventually en-tered into partnership with D. K. Johnson under the name of the McCandless Drilling Com-pany. Subsequently Mr. Graham bought out the interest of Mr. McCandless, and the firm was thereafter the Johnson & Graham Drilling Company, contracting drillers, who did a large business sinking gas, oil and artesian wells. Mr. Graham devoted his time to the interests of the firm, which grew steadily in importance and had an enviable record for dependable operations and practical familiarity with every branch of the business, together with a thorough understanding of the local territory. He maintained few associations aside from business, being independent in politics and with no ambitions to enter public life. His Masonic affiliations were with Petrolia Lodge, No. 363, F. & A. M., and Venango Lodge of Perfection, fourteenth degree, both of Oil City, and he was a Methodist in religion, holding membership in Trinity M. E. Church and the Bible Class. [CAB, 812]

1 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 812.

2 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 1080.

3 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 813.

4 J. H. Newton, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Columbus, OH: J. A. Caldwell Publishers, 1879), Pg 533.