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ROBERT M. GRAHAM, editor and proprietor of the Boonville Standard, was born November 10, 1849, in Boonville, where he lived with his parents until eleven years old, when they removed to a farm in Hart Township. His education consisted of such as he could obtain in the common country schools, after which he attended the Boonville High School one term. Possessing an insatiable thirst for knowledge and a very retentive memory he has, however, by a habit of desultory reading gained an extensive knowledge of general literature. July 26, 1872 he was married to Mary J. Hunsaker. In 1873, under the firm name of J. B. Graham & Son, he engaged in the drug business at Lynnville. In the meantime he taught school in winter and studied medicine under Dr. S. L. Tyner, and in 1876 commenced practice in Spencer County, opposite Owensboro, Ky, where he remained one year. He also practiced one year at Folsomville after which he relinquished medicine and engaged in school-teaching. He taught the graded school at Lynnville in 1872 and 1873, and was Principle of the Folsomville Graded Schools three terms. In 1880 he was defeated as a candidate for Superintendent of Warrick County. He left the teachers’ ranks as one of the foremost educators in the county and in July, 1881, assumed full editorial and business control of the Boonville Standard. Although he has been in the newspaper business but a short time he has evinced considerable journalistic ability, has been a contributor to the educational periodicals of the State and is the author of a work designed for use as a text-book for youthful students entitled “United States Rectangular Survey,” which has been highly recommended by the leading educators of the State.