Biography of Joseph F. Graves

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Graves, Joseph F., was born in Clayton, July 29, 1859. He was reared on the farm, which he left at sixteen years of age and began clerking for his father. His father died in 1885 and he succeeded to the business. Mr. Graves is a member of the Odd Fellows and has held all the chairs in the subordinate lodge. He has been assessor for the town two years and has served on the County Republican Committee. In 1881 he married Mary Marshall, who died in 1882, leaving no children. In 1892 he married Margaret E. Baird, and they have two children, Margaret R. and J. Lloyd. Mr Graves's mother died in 1893.



Source:
Our County and it's people
a descriptive work on Jefferson County, New York
Edited by: Edgar C. Emerson
The Boston History Co., Publishers, Syracuse, N. Y. 1898

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