Biography of Dr. John E. Graham, pages 382/383/384.  History of DeKalb 
County, Indiana; B. F. Bowen & Company, Inc., Indianapolis, 1914.



Dr. John E. Graham



	The true western spirit of progress and enterprise is strikingly 
exemplified in the lives of such men as Dr. Graham, men whose energetic 
nature and laudable ambition have enabled them to conquer many adverse 
circumstances and advance steadily to leading positions of professional 
and business life.  The Dr. is a worthy representative of this class 
and is now a prominent figure in the professional circles of DeKalb 
county, having been successfully engaged in the practice of his 
profession in the town of Auburn since 1899.

	John E. Graham, a successful dentist and popular citizen of 
Auburn, DeKalb county, Indiana, was born in Trenton, Ontairo, Canada, 
on October 2, 1875, and is the son of Major John E. Graham and Jennie 
E. (Meyers) Graham.  Major Graham was a graduate of Fort William 
Military Academy, at Kingston, Ontario, and institution similar to the 
United States Military Academy at West Point.  He was commissioned a 
major in the English army, but subsequently resigned and became engaged 
in business at Trenton.  His wife was a granddaughter of old Captain 
John Meyers, who, during the French and Indian war north of Lake Erie, 
was a courier between Quebec and Detroit.  A brother of Major Meyers is 
now mayor of Kingston, an office that receives much more honor in 
Canada then in this country.  Major Graham died shortly before the 
birth of his son, the subject of this sketch. When the latter was about 
twelve years of age, his mother brought him to the United States, and 
subsequently she became the wife of Samuel Moody, of Waterloo, DeKalb 
county, Indiana, her present residence being at Auburn. John E. Graham, 
who is the third generation of the family to bear than name, attended 
common and high schools in Waterloo and graduated in 1893. Then, 
because of ill health, he spent a year in the highlands of Ontario.  In 
the fall of 1894 he entered the dental department of the University of 
Michigan at Ann Arbor, completing the course and receiving his degree 
in 1897.  He immediately entered upon the active practice of his 
profession at Waterloo, but two years later moved to Auburn, where he 
has remained and where he has built up a large and representative 
patronage.  He possesses a thorough knowledge of his profession and 
keeps closely in touch with the latest advances made in the science of 
dentistry, being now numbered among the ablest and most successful in 
his line in this section of the state.

	On December 31, 1900, Dr. Graham married Bertha Kiplinger, of 
Waterloo, daughter of Michael Kiplinger and wife, who are represented 
elsewhere in this volume.  To this union have been born three children, 
namely: Gladwyn, DuVern and Erthenia.

	In the civic life of the community in which he lives, Dr. Graham 
has long taken an active and prominent part and from 1906 to 1910 he 
served as president of the city board of health.  Fraternally, he is a 
member of the Masonic order, in which he has attained to the fourteenth 
degree of the Scottish Rite.  He is also a member of the Knights of 
Pythias, Uniform Rank, and has served as chancellor commander of the 
lodge at Waterloo.  He also belongs to the Modern Woodmen of America 
and the Brotherhood of American Yeoman. Religiously, Dr. Graham and his 
wife are members of the Presbyterian church, of which the Doctor is an 
elder, and in 1910 he was honored by being made a commissioner to the 
general assembly of the church which met at Atlantic City.  He is a 
straightforward, conscientious man, in whom his fellow citizens have 
marked confidence because of his public spirit and splendid personal 
qualities.  Personally he is genial and companionable, and is popular 
in the social circles in which he moves.



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Arlene Goodwin

Auburn, Indiana

Agoodwin@ctlnet.com