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Graham township was named after John B. Graham, who came to the county with his parents in 1822, but who did
not become a resident of this locality until some 14 or 15 years later. The town of Grahamton was named for him,
lie being one of its most enterprising residents. He built both saw and grist mills there and also engaged in the
lumber business. In 1852 lie removed to the borough of Clearfield, of which lie became a prominent citizen. Jacob
Hubler and Bassel Crowel, came to this locality about 1827 or 1828. Each reared a large family and cleared up a
good farm. In 1864 Jacob Huhier was arrested for a political offense and was imprisoned at Fort Mif— fin, but was
subsequently released. He died in i868.
Conrad W. Kyler, who came here in 1843. cleared and developed a fine farm. He was made county commissioner in 1875
and for ten years was a justice of the peace of Graham township. Other early settlers were Samuel Turner, the Monos,
the Hitchins, the Kepples, the Smeals, and the Flegels; while among the taxable inhabitants in 1857 (the year following
that in which the township was erected) were B. F. Ackley, M. D., Moses Boggs, William Burlingame, William Bcii—
nett, William Bagley, William Burge, John Cook, William Cole, M. & S. Catherman, David Chollar, Henry Colegrove,
David Crowell, Israel Crowell, Basil Crowell, Patrick Curley, James Curley, Benjamin Chance, Frederick Conklin,
Francis Colegrove, Samuel Davidson, Thomas Duncason, John Dixon, Robert Elder, William English, Thomas H. Forcey,
Martin French, Francis Graham, Ira Green, William R. Green, Amos Hubler, George Hoover, Jacob Hoover, John Holt,
Michael Fink, Jacob Hubler, Simon Hauckenbury, Joseph Ishman, John H. Irvin, Edmund Jones, Henry Kyler, Conrad
W. and Isaac Kyler, Peter Keppler, John M. Katon, Samuel Lonsbury, Benjamin and Abraham Lonsbury, Rev. J. M. Mason,
Mark McGuire, Gerge Moyer, John Martin, Jacob Mack, George Nearhood, Henry Nearhood, William Phenix,’ Christian
Pace, Jonas Powel, Harrison Ross, F. W. Russell, William Roiston, Alexander Roiston, William P. Smeal, John Smeal,
Samuel Smeal, George Stever, William Shimmel, Jr., John W. and David Turner, Joseph Thompson, Samuel Ulrich, John
Urnmerman, John and Jacob Wilhelm, William Woolridge, James E. Watson, George W. Wells and others. This will serve
to show who were the pioneers of Graham township, though some of the above mentioned were the sons or descendants
of the original pioneers of this locality.
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