San Joaquin County Biographies


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MRS. J. S. GRAHAM.
 
        An enterprising business woman who is the proprietor of the Budd 
Apartments in Stockton is Mrs. J. S. Graham, a native daughter of the state, 
born at Cherokee, Nevada County. Her father, Jeremiah Morrison, was an early 
pioneer of California, and is represented in the sketch of her sister, Mrs. 
Nellie Wehr.
Mrs. Graham was in maidenhood Hanora Morrison. She spent her childhood in 
Cherokee, Nevada County, receiving a good education in the local school. It was 
there her first marriage occurred, which united her with John Gaffette, a native 
of Belgium, who emigrated with his parents to Iowa, where he lived until he was 
sixteen years of age. He then crossed the plains to California, and engaged in 
teaming in the Mother Lode country until his death in 1903. There were four 
children in their family: Kate, the wife of T. P. Coughlan, of Stockton; John, 
who died at thirty-two years of age; Roy, deceased when eight years old; and 
Percy, who died at eighteen years of age.
        Several years after Mr. Gaffette's death his widow married again, the 
ceremony taking place in Sacramento, when Hanora Gaffette became the wife of 
James S. Graham, a native son born in Nevada County, a son of James and Alice 
Graham, California pioneers who settled in Nevada County. Mr. Graham was a 
mining man in Nevada County. They moved to Stockton in 1906, and there engaged 
in the hotel business, first as proprietors of the Kansas House and later of the 
St. James Hotel; and after disposing of this, they became proprietors of the 
City Hotel, which they conducted until 1922, when it was sold. Soon afterwards 
Mrs. Graham purchased the Budd Apartments, a modern and popular apartment house, 
and there they now make their home. Mr. Graham is a popular member of the Loyal 
Order of Moose.
 
History of San Joaquin County, California � Los Angeles, Historic Record Co., 
1923
p   1460       
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler.