John Francis GRAFF I

August 12, 1857-June 6, 1918

• BIRTH: August 12, 1857, Worthington, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania

• MARRIAGE: December 27, 1881, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

• MARRIAGE: 1904

• FACTS: Manager of the company store connected with the Buffalo Woolen Mills, Worthington, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania. After ten years service as superintendent he became a partner in the concern. He was a director of the Merchant's National Bank of Kittanning, Pennsylvania; president of the Althom Sand Company; director of the P. McGraw Wool Company, both of Pittsburgh; a stockholder in the Safe Deposit Trust Company of Pittsburgh; a stockholder in the First National Bank of Parker, Pa.; a stockholder in the Kittanning Telephone Company; a stockholder in the First National Bank of Duluth, Minnesota; a well-known member of the Republican party, and has held local and State offices, having been school director at Worthington; justice of the peace, and member of the General Assembly, to whose lower house he was elected in 1900, continuing to serve until 1904, and in 1912 he was elected as a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate, for four years. He was an elector when Roosevelt was chosen president.

• DEATH: June 6, 1918

                             John GRAFF I
|Peter GRAFF I |
|                           |Barbara BAUM 
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|--John Francis GRAFF I
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|                            Christopher LOBENGIER III
|Susanna LOBENGIER|
                            |Anna Maria KUNTZ 

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