Biography

01/09/1869 - 01/14/1943

GRAHAM, Patrick J., a Representative from Schuylkill County; born in East Mahanoy Township, Schuylkill County, Pa., January 9, 1869; keeper, institution for the insane, Schuylkill County; restaurant proprietor (17 years); proprietor, Ferguson Hotel, Shenandoah; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives to the 1907 term; unsuccessful campaign for reelection to the House (1908); founder and president, Schuylkill County Crippled Children’s Society; director, Miners Bank, Shenandoah; president, Pottsville Tobacco Company; died, January 14, 1943 in Shenandoah, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania; interred, Annunciation Blessed Virgin Mary Church Cemetery, Shenandoah, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.