Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Edmund Dutilh Graff




Husband Edmund Dutilh Graff 1 2

            AKA: Edmund B. Graff 3
           Born: 17 Apr 1895 - Worthington, Armstrong Co, PA 4
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         Father: Hon. John Francis Graff (1857-1918) 5 6
         Mother: Carrie Louise Brown (      -1902) 1 2 6





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General Notes: Husband - Edmund Dutilh Graff


His elementary training was received in the public schools of Worthington, Pennsylvania, after which he pursued his studies at the Culver Military School, which were followed by a course at the Philadelphia Textile School, concluding with a term at Duff's Business College. Upon the completion of his education, he was taken by his father, the late Senator Graff, into association with him in the management of the Graff Woolen Mills. He made it his chief business to acquire as much as possible a working and administrative knowledge of the establishment, and soon made himself indispensable to his father. Mr. Graff was also vice-president of the Graff Kittanning Clay Products Company, of Craigsville, a director of the Merchants National Bank of Kittanning, a partner in the Buffalo Supply Company, and the Craigsville Supply Company.
He was a staunch adherent of the Republican party. When the difficulties with Mexico attained a crucial stage, in 1916, he heeded the call of his government for troops, and went to the Mexican Border with Company K, 16th Regiment of Infantry, Pennsylvania National Guard. Not long after his return home he was selected to attend the Officers' Training Camp at Fort Niagara, and while holding a fond hope of eventually receiving an officer's commission and of being ordered overseas with the American Expeditionary Forces, he was stricken with spinal meningitis, and was compelled to accept an honorable discharge from the service with the rating of first sergeant. After his recovery he devoted his entire attention to his industrial and financial interests.
He was a member of the Delta Phi Psi fraternity and was affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He was a member of the Kittanning Chamber of Commerce, and his religious fellowship was with the Lutheran Church of Worthington.

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Sources


1 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 329.

2 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (NW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 17.

3 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 412.

4 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (NW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 23.

5 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (NW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 16.

6 Paul Graff, History of the Graff Family of Westmoreland County (Philadelphia, PA: Privately published(?), 1891), Pg 76.


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