The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-02-03
MAN TO
ACCEPT PULPIT
REV. THOMAS GRAHAM OF RICH
MoND, IND, HAS ACCEPTED
CALL OF FIRST PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH OF FARGO AND WILL
COME APRIL 1.

Presbyterians Of Fargo are rejoic-
ing over the acceptance Of the call
recently extended to the Rev. Thomas
Jackson Graham OF Richmond, Ind,
to become pastor or the First Presby-
terrain church in Fargo. The pulpit
Of h local church has been vacant
since last October and the new pastor
will take up his duties April /.
Mr.. Graham is a man of command
ing presence and an unusually fine
speaker. He is a man Of robust per-
sonality, energetic, eloquent and one
who will quickly find g. place in the
hustling church to which he has been
called. Mr.. Graham visited Fargo in
January and Immediately following
his visit al rendered a unanimous
call to become pastor of the church.
Rev. Thomas Jackson Graham A. b.,
A. NJ, was born in Madison, Ind, July
10, 1875. He is a son of Maj. Thomas
Graham, a veteran of the Civil war
who had a splendid record in the
Thirty-ninth Ind, and vas for several
years a successful manufacturer Of
wagon woodwork etc., in Madison.
Mr.. Graham's father and mother were
both of Scotch parentage and the lat
ter is now living.
| ESSS. NIL IldLdlu GRADUATED 1EOItl
Hanover. college at Madison in 1896,
from Princeton Theological Seminary
in 1899 and Immediately began his
ministerial duties being assigned to
| home mission work in Nowata, Indian
Territory, now Oklahoma. He was
| called to the First Presbyterian church
at West Union, Ia, in 1900 and after
a successful p%astorate of four years
was called to Richmond, Ind, where
for over nine years he has been the
pastor of the First Presbyterian
church. .
In 1899 he married Miss Elisabeth
Malcolm Conner of Marshallfield, Wis,
| a classmate at Hanover and a gradu-
| ate Of Western college of oxford, o.
| They have a fine family of three chill
dren, Thomas, jr., aged 10, Agnes
Connor, 9 and Jean, S years Of age.
He has been chairman of. the execu-
tive committee of Synod and resigns
the craftsmanship of the Home Mis-
sion committee of Whitewater Presby-
terry, on taking up his work in Far
go. He represented his church at
General Assembly at both Buffalo and
Louisville.
Mr.. Graham has enjoyed a wide
acquaintance in and out Of the
churches Of Richmond. He was one of
the i~ncorporators of the Y. M. G. A.,
has served in all progressive move
ments of the Ministerial association.
as well as having served two terms
as president, and on important COM
mittees.
He has been interested as a mem
Der and helper in the commercial club
and in the boys summer camp work
OF Y. M. C. A. for three seasons-his
side lines have been tennis and raising
Buff Orpington chickens. His college
fraternity was Sigma Chi.
He is a member of the Sons of
Veterans. In his p~astorate at Rich
mond he followed a popular preacher
who had filled the pulpit for thirty
four years, the aged minister serving
as Pastor Emeritus. During his nine
years, the church has installed several
thousand dollars of improvements, a
new pipe organ, and been
socially and benevoIently quick
ened. He was offered during the
past year the endowment secretary
ship, of Hanover college and propos-
ed for synodical superintendent YET
preferred a passionate and aggressive
city work for the best years to come
] OF his ministerial career.