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History of the Great Lakes
Illustrated, In Two Volumes, Vol. II
Chicago, J. H. Beers & Co., 1899

           [245-246]

           JOHN H. GRAHAM, of St. Joseph. For the past twenty years no
        name has been more prominently connected with the passenger
        pleasure resort service out of Chicago, and with the great fruit
        traffic from the Michigan shores, than that of the worthy presi-
        dent of the Graham & Morton Transportation Co. Their line of
        palatial steamers carry thousands of people daily during the
        summers between Chicago, St. Joseph and Benton Harbor, and do an
        extensive freight business between the same points, and between
        Milwaukee and the Twin Cities.
           MR. GRAHAM is a native of the State of Illinois, having been
        born in Boone county, December 10, 1849. His parents were JOHN
        and LUCINDA (NICHOLS) GRAHAM, who are referred to in the sketch
        of EDMON A. GRAHAM, elsewhere in this work. Our subject passed
        his early boyhood at Elkhart, Ind., and in 1864 came with his
        father to St. Joseph, and with him became engaged in the lumber
        business. Some years later young GRAHAM, in connection with MR.
        ANDREW CRAWFORD, formed a partnership at Benton Harbor in the
        hardwood lumber business, and operated a sawmill in connection
        with it. This firm carried on an extensive business in this line
        for several years. Early in the 'seventies MR. GRAHAM, in con-
        nection with J. STANLEY MORTON and others, engaged in the steam-
        boat business, operating boats between Benton Harbor, St. Joseph
        and Chicago, under the firm name of GRAHAM, MORTON & Co., which,
        in 1880 or 1881, merged into a stock company, which was styled
        the GRAHAM & MORTON Transportation Co., and of which MR. GRAHAM
        became president, which position he has since uninterruptedly
        held.
           On February 14, 1881, our subject was united in marriage to
        MISS DORA E. CHASE, a daughter of E. T. CHASE, of Benton Harbor,
        but formerly of Homer, Michigan.
           The GRAHAM & MORTON Transportation Co., of which MR. GRAHAM
        has been so long officially connected, and to the growth of which
        he has given so many of the most active years of his life, and at
        times periods of great anxiety, represents the largest single busi-
        ness interest in the docks at Benton Harbor and Chicago, upwards
        of a half million dollars, and during the season gives employment
        to more than a hundred men.
           Our subject is also identified with other business interests
        at Benton Harbor and St. Joseph, being the president of the Alden
        Canning Company, of the former city, and of the St. Joseph Hotel
        Company, which owns the beautiful and commodious hotel by that
        name, located on the beach at St. Joseph, and which beautiful
        structure was burned in the summer of 1898. He is also a director
        in the Union Banking Company of the latter city. MR. GRAHAM is
        strictly a self-made man, beginning early in life to do for him-
        self, and through his own energy and efforts he has made for him-
        self a position and standing in business circles, of which any man
        might be proud. In politics MR. GRAHAM is a Republican.

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