History of Monroe County, Wisconsin; Past and Present
published: Chicago:  C.F. Cooper & Co.   1912.

EDWARD C. GRAHAM,  is a native son of Wisconsin, and ranks 
among the wide awake and progressive farmers of LaGrange township.  
He was born in Tomah township, April 11, 1868, to Michael and Sarah 
(Nash) Graham, natives of New York state and Ireland, respectively.  
Michael Graham, who settled in LaGrange township in the early fifties, 
and his brother, in company with their father, Thomas Graham, came to 
Wisconsin, where Michael died at the age of forty-three years, in 1879.  
His widow, mother of our subject, still (1912) survives.  They reared a 
family of four children:  Ella married M.P. Finnerty, and resides at 
Tomah;  Edward C., our subject;  William, who lives on the homestead, 
and May, the wife of Fitz Chapman, of Chicago.

Receiving his education in the district schools of his home town, Mr. 
Graham assisted his father on the farm, which, since his death, our 
subject has conducted.  He lives now in the enjoyment of his model 
country home; with his modern residence, erected in 1909, and his 
commodious barn, built in 1899, with other improvements in keeping 
with these, have been made.  He carries on general farming, dairying and 
stock raising, making a specialty of Durham and Holstein cattle.  He 
takes an active interest in the affairs of his township, has served as 
treasurer of his town, and was treasurer of the school district for twenty 
years.

He was married in October, 1894, to Miss Elizabeth Brennen, daughter 
of Edward and Mary (Gillespie) Brennen, of Adrian township.  To Mr. 
and Mrs. Graham have been born four children, viz:  Marie Grace, Irene 
Katheryn, Mildred Ellen and Michael Francis.  Mrs. Graham was a 
resident of Adrian township for many years, where her father, Edward 
Brennen, died in November, 1909, and where her mother now resides.

Submitted by:  Linda Pingel