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Biographical Record of the Fox River Valley Counties 
of Brown, Outagamie and Winnebago, 1895

        
        [955-]
        
        CAPTAIN CHARLES A. GRAVES, commander of the propeller "Fountain
      City," plying between Chicago and lake ports, is a son of ORLO and
      LUCY ANN (LESSEY) GRAVES, and was born in Green Bay in 1862.
        ORLO GRAVES was born at Chagrin Falls, Cuyahoga Co., OH, October
      23, 1819, and some time in the "thirties" came to Green Bay, where
      he was first employed as a mechanic. Later he served as deputy
      sheriff, and then as sheriff of Brown county, Wis.; later still,
      studied law at Green Bay, was admitted to the bar, and became 
      prosecuting attorney, which office he held for twenty years, and
      also city attorney for six or seven years. He was married at Green
      Bay, March 14, 1841, to MISS LUCY ANN LESSEY, who was born in Litch-
      field, Conn., but reared in New York; her father died in New York,
      her mother in Green Bay. ORLO GRAVES was a prominent Odd Fellow,
      being vice-grand of Wisconsin; he died February 19, 1879; his widow
      now resides with her son, CAPT. GRAVES. To ORLO GRAVES and his wife
      were born five children, as follows; CORNELIA H., wife of A. M. 
      SPEAR, of Marshall Hall, Charles Co., Md.; ORLO J., who died at the
      age of thirty-seven, at Fort Howard; CHESTER F., of Green Bay, who
      died when forty-one; LOUISE, wife of GEORGE O. SPEAR, a capitalist
      of Green Bay, and CHARLES A., our subject.
        CAPT. CHARLES A. GRAVES was reared and educated in his native
      city, and commenced life on the lakes at the age of twenty as lines-
      man, but soon worked his way upward, receiving his commission as 
      captain in 1883, and as such has served on the Bay and lakes ever
      since. He was at one time foreman of Company No. 3, of the Fire
      Department of Green Bay. In politics he is a Democrat. His mother
      had two brothers who were Indian traders in the early history of
      Brown county, viz: JOHN F., who was a marble cutter by trade, and
      also clerk of courts in an early day, but who later kept a store
      and was a successful trader (he died November 20, 1879), and HENRY,
      who was also a trader, and died in 1850. The father of CAPT. GRAVES
      also had an experience as an Indian trader in the early days. Our
      subject being a descendant of one of the earliest families to lo-
      cate in the county, and having led an industrious and useful life,
      enjoys to the full the esteem and confidence of the inhabitants of
      Green Bay and all the points to which he trades.
      
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