Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1912-03-20

portrait of DIR. Archibald Alexander Graham 10 the
Board of Supervisors in the Courthouse. Lexing-
ton, Va, March 4. i9r7)
In portrait gallery OF men whose
lives were identified with Rock
bridge county. Va. the features OF
Archibald Alexander Graham are
particularly appropriate.
The record of his life Justly num-
bers him as one of the foremost citi
zens OF Rockbridge of his day, and
his day covered a long life which
were spent within her borders.
None have known old Rockbridge
better from mountain TO noun tain !;
and none loved it better. With its
beauty of contour and shade of col
oring, than he did.
Possibly no citizen was so well
known 70 the people Of his genera
ton; aud few, If any, have known
the Rockbridge Of his time as well,
and loved it's people, as a whole, so
well. He knew their characters,
their temperaments; their condition
and their history. He knew the
strains from which they came, dat
ing back to the green sod OF Ireland,
and the blue heather of Scotland.
What a great fund of lore about
them went into Oblivion with his
DEATH
OF lineage. which, as the name
tells, was closely associated with
much of the most honorable history
Of the county; through a noble wife
allied with the important Lyle fam
lily, he was, by all the ties OF kim
dred, closely associated with influ-
entail forces Of the Rockbridge OF
his past and present. He was son
OF Edward Graham of the faculty OF
Washington College, and a nephew
of William Graham, its founder.
His mother was Margaret Alexan-
der, granddaughter of Archibald
Alexander, sturdy immigrant who
was conspicuous as leader in this
Scotch Irish settlement on Virgin.
ia frontier, and was the county s
first sheriff. His mama descended
to the learned and sanity Arch
bald Alexander, the Princeton thee
Logan, his grandson, and to Archi
bald Alexander Graham, his grea
grandson.
Archibald Graham was born il
> this community in the year 1904
Here he was educated, being grad
uated from Washington college a
the age of nineteen. He then wend
ed his way Inward, to the port c
entry of his people, Philadelphia, i
the State Of Pennsylvania, the HON
state of many of his kindred. Their
- he was educated in medicine at tn
/, University of Pennsylvania. HIGH
q qualified as a physician he is foun
IL turning his footsteps, as did so man
z OF his compatriots, before and sine,
{. southwestward, and settling in tt
ID county of Washington, Virgins
10 But another year saw him back
IL the home of his fathers. to take U
TO his life work among his own peopl
n Here he remained throughout lor
life of activity and usefulness, r
g. tanning his vigOr, and with symp
OF thies in touch with the hopes ar
OF aspiration of his people, until Il
n summer of 1880, When his last illne
overlook him. He died at GLOW
,h Hill," his beautiful estate near M
H. ural Bridge, August 10th of tn
1g year, and he was buried among b
al kindred in the old church cemete
u at Lexington.
he DIR. Graham was one of the fir
physicians who ever made his hoI
in Lexington. then a thriving cou
ty center with important manufa
VI lures and educational interests. II
~ practice here covered rounded I
IN riod of forty years. save one spe
ne in Washington. 1926 to 1868
re- bounds we're the lines of this bro
D" county. What this may ha
Sc amounted to in a period when I
ou many streams went unabridged a
ny the roads over the many hills in ,
KS county went ungraded, may be im
oe- ined. What a benediction that ST
the -. form oo,,;no ,ono ,hror