Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-05-12
Breezy Write-up of "Hod" Graham.

The subject of this sketch.
York. February z, 1862, but after
many wanderings and vicissitudes
finally settled in Craftsbury in 1888.
The student of pathology might infer
from his photograph that he came
from an ancestry of Greek brigands
who were only celebrated by offers by
the sheriff of large rewards for their
apprehension, but this is a case where
appearances are wholly unreliable and
deceitful
He was born of honest and reputable
parents, prominent and influential in
their community and honored and
respected by their neighbors. Also
contrary to his general aspect. e is
singularly modest and unassuming,
vastly preferring to unfold and blush
unseen. This is known of all men
because of the sufficient reason that he
insists and persists in residing in
Craftsbury. It is fine old town.
Craftsbury, with an unusually honor
able past somewhere behind it, but it
is not infested by a railroad and the
popul alton is not at all congested.
Horace has been shown. all the king
doms of the world, from Jay Peak to
Mount Tom, but he has steadfastly
refused all Establishments and his
heart has remained true to Poll. He
absolutely refuses to make such a
dent in the population as his departure
would create, and heroically remains
on the burning deck. so to speak Too
much cannot be said. certainly, of the
nobility of soul which induces free
citizen to remain in Craftsbury, when
he might reside at Wolcott or Buck S
Mill. In his younger days Horace
took the usual dose of village school,
matriculated and worked through
Craftsbury academy and later gradual
ed from Columbia college schools of
law and political science in 1888. He
began at home-like charity by "hold-
ing all the usual town Offices" was
states attorney for Orleans county for
four years from 1893, presidential
elector in 1900 and member of the
house of representatives at Montpelier
in 1892 and again IN 1900. Yet another
valid claim to everlasting fame is his
membership of the recent, late OF
present educational commission. A
member of the educational commission
during the recent times which have
tried men S souls. you understand, ha:
had fame fairly rubbed and ground
into him. And yet Horace stood pa
and never batted an eye or turned {
hair through it all Well, to return
and resume the thread Of our discourse
In one way and another Horace in hi!
association with the public has worked
on their feelings that their admiration
bubbled over in 1902 and they nominal
ed and elected him state auditor il
that historic year with a howl o
ghoulish glee which is yet echoing an,
| vibrating family throughout all tina
!. section clear down through from the
Runaway Pond region to Chubb'
Crossing. And the beauty of it is tina
they have kept on doing it ever since
until Horace is as much of fixture il
the auditors Office as his copyin!
press. He once made the bald an
unsupported statement that the write
of this article was to some exten
5 responsible for his entry into the offic
] which he now so admirably fills. and i
= this is in any part true | may perhap
be credited with being instrumental i
) the accomplishment of one of tn
! largest and best reforms that eve
: struck Vermont. and may not hav
2 lived entirely in vain.