Edmund Dutilh Graff and Melvina Wolfe

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Husband Edmund Dutilh Graff ^{1 2}

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           Born: 1846 - Worthington, Armstrong Co, PA 1 3
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           Died: 3 Jun 1912 3
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         Father: Peter Graff (1808-1890) 4 5 6 7 8 9
         Mother: Susannah Lobingier (      -      ) 9

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       Marriage: 1901 10

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Wife Melvina Wolfe ¹⁰

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         Father: Jacob Wolfe (      -      ) 10
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Children

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General Notes: Husband - Edmund Dutilh Graff

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He secured an excellent district school education which prepared him to enter the Western University at Pittsburgh, where he was graduated with his degree of B. Ph. in 1868. For some time afterward he was occupied in the office of Graff, McDivitt & Co., manufacturers, at Pittsburgh, and later succeeded to his father's interests in the woolen mills at Worthington, Pennsylvania. In 1880 he became interested at Duluth, Minnesota, in lumber manufacturing, as senior member of the firm of Graff, Little & Co., and ever afterward continued to be the actual as well as the nominal head of that large concern. In 1889 the business was incorporated as the Scott-Graff Lumber Company, of which he was president and one of the main stockholders. This company's plant was on the oldest saw-mill site at Duluth, the mill having been rebuilt and remodeled at different times in order to accommodate the increasing demands of the business. Mr. Graff had a multiplicity of business interests, and he was either officially or financially, and generally in both ways, connected with various large industrial enterprises. He was interested in the Howe Lumber Company, of Tower, Minnesota, which he helped to organize, and of which he was president until the burning of the company's mill caused a cessation of activity there for a time. In 1900 the Tower Lumber Company was incorporated and he became the largest stockholder and a member of the board of directors. He was also a stockholder in the First National Bank of Duluth, and a director of the First State Bank of Tower, Minnesota. At Worthington, Pennsylvania, he was a director and stockholder in several banks, the senior partner of the firm operating the Buffalo Woolen Mills.
He was a member of the Lutheran Church and served several years as a member of its board of trustees.
In memory of the late Dr. C. H. Graff, a brother of Edmund D. Graff, a man of brilliant parts, the father, Peter Graff, endowed a professorship in Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. From 1900 Edmund D. Graff served on its board of trustees and at the time of his death was president of this body.
Politically a Democrat, he was one of the three members of his family who served in the General Assembly of Pennsylvania, and was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention, in 1884, that nominated Hon. Grover Cleveland for the presidency.

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General Notes: Wife - Melvina Wolfe

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from Adrian, Armstrong Co, PA

1 Paul Graff, History of the Graff Family of Westmoreland County (Philadelphia, PA: Privately published(?), 1891), Pg 73.

2 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 329, 614.

3 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 614.

4 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 711.

5 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 328.

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

7 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. IV (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 141.

8 Paul Graff, History of the Graff Family of Westmoreland County (Philadelphia, PA: Privately published(?), 1891), Pg 70.

9 Kenneth Lobingier, Genealogy of the Lobingier Family 1374 - 1974 (Mt. Pleasant, PA: Privately published, 1974), Pg 13.

10 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 615.