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DUNCAN M. GRAHAM. Esq., the son of James H. Graham and Mary Criswell Graham, received his preparatory education in the common schools of Carlisle and the preparatory school of Dickinson College. He entered Dickinson and graduated after the full four years’ course in the class of 1873. After graduation he was attached for two years to the United States ship “Portsmouth” in a surveying expedition and taking deep sea soundings in the Pacific ocean. Upon his return to Carlisle he entered the office of his father, Judge Graham, with whom he studied law, and was admitted to practice in August. 1876. Mr. Graham has been engaged in the practice of his profession from that time to the present. He has filled the offices of city and county solicitor acceptably to the people, and in 1891 was appointed assistant to Hon. W. U. Hensel, attorney general of the State, a position he held for four years. He is the author of several statutes now in force in Pennsylvania. One permitting illegitimate children born of the same mother to inherit real and personal property from each other remedied what was regarded as a great injustice and has been adopted by a number of States. Another relating to tramps and vagrants has saved the taxpayers many thousands of dollars. As secretary of the Board of Examiners of the Cumberland county Bar he took a deep interest in reforming the system of admitting law students to the Bar and aided in the establishing of the State Board of Examiners appointed by the Supreme Court.

Mr. Graham married, in 1893. Mary Latimer Coble, of Carlisle, and of the children born to this union, three daughters, Mary, Elizabeth and Sarah, are now living. Mr. Graham is president of the board of trustees of the Second Presbyterian Church, and interested in everything that makes for the good of the community.