Robert T. Graham and Permelia Buffington

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Husband Robert T. Graham ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 9 Feb 1822 - Butler Co, PA 1
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         Father: Joseph Graham (1794-1880) 2 4 5
         Mother: Nancy Thompson (      -      ) 2

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   Other Spouse: Jane M. "Jennie" Ayres (      -      ) 3 6

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• Residence: : Etna, Allegheny Co, PA.

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Wife Permelia Buffington ⁶

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Children

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1 M Edwin Graham ⁶

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2 F [Unk] Graham

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         Spouse: Zelas McCord (      -      ) 6

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3 M Dr. Norman R. Graham ⁶

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General Notes: Husband - Robert T. Graham

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He was one of five children, and was educated in his native county, where he also learned the bricklaying trade. In 1845 he came to Etna, Allegheny County, and assisted in build-ing the residence and pipemill for Charles F. Spang, Sr.; he also built the Park, Mc-Curdy & Co. copper-mill, Pittsburgh, in 1859. During the war he ran a steam ferry in Sharpsburg, and afterward was in the sawmill business, and was also interested in gold-mines in Colorado and South Caro-lina.
He held all the principal offices in Etna; was twice elected burgess, and served as justice of the peace fifteen years in Sharpsburg and Etna boroughs. He and his wife were members of the M. P. Church.
In early life he was one of the best sharpshooters in the state of Pennsylvania, and had many medals and trophies of his victories. He also took great pleasure in collecting rare coins, native and foreign, and has in his possession one of the finest col-lections in the county. This collection, which now numbers some three thousand pieces outside of duplicates, was commenced in the year 1840 by a number of odd coins coming into his possession. But few were added to this stock until the year 1845, when a silver half-dollar of the date 1818 was picked up by Mr. Graham in the debris of the Pitts-burgh fire, and from that time the collection steadily grew. A hint of coins for sale, an announcement of a coin exhibition, or a newspaper item concerning the finding of any, was, after that year, sufficient to start Mr. Graham on an investigation, from which he rarely returned without a coin or coins to pay him for his trouble. The arrangement of the coins is systematic, and in strict nu-mismatical order. [HAC 1889 II, 768]

1 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 767.

2 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 871.

3 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 807.

4 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 281.

5 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 190.

6 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 768.