New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-07-14
OBITUARY.
GEORGE r. GRAHAM.


George r. Graham. the well-known journalist and
founder of 'Grahams Magazine" died at Memorial
Hospital. Orange. a little after O'Clock yesterday
afternoon. Death was due TO congestion Of the
! lungs caused by long confinement in bed
George X Graham was born in Philadelphia In
January. 1913, his father being wealthy shipping
merchant whose fortune afterward swept
away by unfortunate investments and who died
when George was fifteen years old, leaving also
daughter. Mary. who became the wife OF Colonel
Harry Rockefeller. George received a good pre-
paratory education, and was placed in the law office
OF Jared Ingersoll, a celebra ted Philadelpha law
yer. The death of his father. however. compelled
him to leave the law office, and he was taken on
the farm Of George Rex. in Montgomery County
Penn, where he remained until he was nineteen.
In 1882 he went to Philadelphia and apprenticed
himself to cabinet maker. He worked twelve
hours day at the trade to support himself, and
devoted six hours to studying law. In 1896 he was
taken into the office OF Judge Armstrong at Phila-
delphia. and admitted to the Bar three years
later. boyhood friend Of Grahams was Charles
j. Peterson. afterward the well-known publisher
Graham and Peterson purchased a small weekly
literary publication called THE Casket," and ran
IL until 1910. William f.. Burton at that time
conducting THE Gentleman's Magazine" 1t had
about 400 subscribers and Edgar Allen Poe was
a young writer for It, Graham and Peterson
bought out Burton, and soon afterward Graham
acquired the sole prOprietorship, and in January
1871. the first number OF "Graham's Magazine" APP
peared The contributors included Edgar Allen
Poe william Cullen Bryant. Bayard Taylor. James
Fenimorc Cooper. n. J.. Wills. Longfellow. Low
ell SAKE, Whipple, Mrs. Ann s. Stephens. Thomas
Dunn English and other writer's. The magazine
obtained wide circulation. and Mr.. Graham en-
joyed an income from 1t OF $4,000 a year for a
number OF years. He became personally acquaint-
ed with the leading public men OF the day. and
counted among his personal friends Henry Clay.
John C. Calhoun and Daniel Webster. He
temperate IN politics, and pro-savery in his sym
such a wide celebrity in the North. Graham wrote
ami published in his magazine a bitter attack upon
OF the magazine ana OF his fortunes In 1916, when
he was in the full tide Of prosperity, he purchased
States Gazette" OF Philadelphia. which he consoli-
dated under the name OF The North American"
Evening Bulletin"
Mr.. Graham interested In the development OF
the mineral resources Of Pennsylvania and owned
,s, a iarge amoun, 81 none in his Wv and IN
other directions. and finally just before the
began. became financially embarrassed and had 10
Par %''n n ms puDica,ons' IN SO ne nad lost al
Newark and became assistant editor Of The New
ark Daily Journal" doing literary work for other
publications. His sight began to fail! and he was
competed in 1870 10 give up all work and come for
h se' w i9 an pa Fys ay II ms G wseTe
dltion Of Mr. Graham was called 70 the attention
whom had known him well. and they contributed
enough 20 insure lin comfortable maintenance
until hts death. In 1857 he sent 20 the Ne
mortal Hospital. In Orange 10 be treated for a
bladder trouble and he remained in that Institution
until he died
Mr. Graham was married in 1899 ana had no |
children MIS- wife dying about eighteen years ago.
He was man Of serenity a temper and Of kind |
and sympathetic disposition In his old age his |
memory Of events and persons n the past was |
sneu.ar.y clear. and he could entertain listener !
FOR hours with anecdotes OF he noted people with
whom he had had familiar relations.
On the death OF George W. Childs his widow de- |
cned 20 continue longer the contribution for the |
support Of Mr.. Graham. Frank W. Baldwin. editor |
OF "'The Orange ~ j. Chronicle" who had been |
greatly interested In Mr. Graham. number |
OK leading publishers and journalists and Secured |
pledges and contributions sufficient 10 insure the |
support Of the pioneer publisher.
Until January last Mr. Graham's intellectual fac |
uliles remained unclouded. Since then general |
sene Degeneration had set In and for the last few
months his mind had wandered and his recollection |
u those who We're most intimately associated with |
him was times entirely gone
Tho precise cause OF death was heart failure. the
action OF the heart being htfu and irregular and is
action only being secured by strong doses
" nitrO-g ycerne.