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Below is a family biography included in the History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania published in 1889 by A. Warner & Co.   These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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GEORGE GREENFIELD GRAHAM, M. D., assistant physician Dixmont Hospital for Insane, was born March 29, 1856, in Allegheny, Pa., son of John and Martha A. (Greenfield) Graham, former of whom was born in Pittsburgh, in 1832, and now resides at Washington, Pa. The mother was born in Newburgh, N. Y., and died in 1886. His grandparents, John and Elizabeth Graham, were born in Westmoreland county, Pa., of Scotch parentage, and his grandfather came to Pittsburgh in an early day, where he began business in the hat trade, finally becoming president of the Bank of Pittsburgh; was also vice-president of the Dixmont hospital and the Western Pennsylvania hospital. George G. Graham attended the Allegheny public schools and the Western University of Pennsylvania, and then studied medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Baltimore, Md., graduating in 1882. In the same year he became resident physician of the Western Pennsylvania hospital, department of medicine and surgery, and in May, 1883, he entered the Dixmont Hospital for the Insane, of which he is now senior assistant physician. He is a member of the Allegheny County Medical society, A. O. U. W. and F. & A. M., and Allegheny Chapter. He and his father are members of the Second Presbyterian Church of Pittsburgh.

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This family biography is one of 2,156 biographies included in the History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania published in 1889 by A. Warner & Co.

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