Tulare County Biographies

R. M. GRAHAM

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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It was in the Hoosier State that R. M. Graham was born in 1849. In the years of 
his young manhood he was a successful school teacher, then for many years he 
published the Boonville Standard, a weekly paper, at Boonville, in his native 
state, disposing of it in 1886 to come to California. Here, finding no opening 
in the publishing line, he worked by the day on ranches and as a carpenter until 
eight years ago, when he went into the real estate business at Visalia, 
maintaining his residence at Lindsay. Three years later he established his 
office at Lindsay, where he has done a successful business to the present time. 
He has a beautiful orange grove of twenty-five acres and has given considerable 
attention to the growth of olives. As a citizen he is public-spirited to an 
eminent degree, and in a business way and otherwise he has done much for the 
promotion of the best interests of the community. In 1873 he married Miss Mary 
J. Hunsaker, a native of Indiana, who has borne him two children, one of whom 
has passed away. Joseph B. Graham, his father, was a native of Ohio; his mother 
was born in Pennsylvania; both have passed away. He is the present city recorder 
of Lindsay, which office he has held since the summer of 1912. When he accepted 
this office he resigned as a member of the Board of Health of Lindsay. He is 
also ex-president of the Board of Trade and has ably filled the office of 
justice of the peace. Fraternally he has affiliated with the Independent Order 
of Odd Fellows of Lindsay since he came to the town. He became a member of the 
order in Indiana in 1872 and has passed all the chairs of the subordinate lodge 
and been a representative in the Grand Lodge. In real estate circles he is 
widely known through his efficient management of the Central California Realty 
Company of Lindsay.
 
History of Tulare and Kings Counties, California with Biographical Sketches - 
Los Angeles, Calif., Historic Record Company, 1913 pp. 643-644