Joseph A. Graham papers

1 box, 1 oversize folder (3.5 linear feet)

(1860 – 1942)

bulk 1896-1905

Edward H. Nabb Center for Delmarva History and Culture, Salisbury, University, Salisbury, Maryland

Identifier	2016.032
Creator(s)	Graham, Joseph A.
Acquisition	The Joseph A. Graham papers were donated to the Nabb Research Center by King Burnett in 2016.
Language(s)	English
Use	Records are open for research. Copyright, including literary rights, belongs to the author(s) or their legal heirs. Permission to publish or reproduce must be obtained from the Nabb Research Center which extends beyond "fair use."
Preferred Citation	"Item, collection title and identifier, box # and folder # (if applicable), Edward H. Nabb Research Center for Delmarva History and Culture, Salisbury University, Salisbury, Maryland."
Attribution	Finding aid written by Kenneth Forest, April 2019.
Related Materials	L.W. Gunby papers (1845 – 1991) S. Norris Pilchard III papers (Undated) Judy Brittingham collection (1930 – 1970)
Separated Materials	Oversize materials have been removed to the Nabb Research Center’s flat file system. Artifacts have been removed to object storage.

Abstract

The Joseph A. Graham papers document Joseph A. Graham’s career, life, and family through letters, postcards, telegrams, photographs and ephemera. Topics include journalism, newspapers, and theater, offering insight into life in the United States during the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era.

Biographical History

Joseph Alexander Graham was born on September 8, 1855 in Salisbury, Maryland. He was the son of Colonel Samuel Alexander Graham and Louisa Collier Graham. Graham was educated at Antioch College, and worked as a reporter for The Salisbury Advertiser. He married Mary “Mame” Williams in 1883, and the couple had a daughter, Harriet Graham, in 1887. Graham was admitted to the bar and elected the State’s Attorney for Wicomico County, Maryland. He resigned his office in 1884 and moved to Missouri. He served as associate editor and editor of The Kansas City Times from 1885-1896 and editor of The St. Louis Republic from 1896-1905. Graham accompanied then-Secretary of War William Howard Taft on his tour of the Philippines, China and Japan in 1905. On his return to the United States, he moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and served briefly as editor of The Philadelphia Public Ledger, but resigned due to declining health. He moved to Omaha, Nebraska, and worked briefly as a reporter for The Omaha Bee, but returned to Salisbury, Maryland, suffering from paralysis. Graham was an authority on hunting dogs, and wrote a book on the subject entitled, The Sporting Dog of America. He also wrote articles for The Outlook, a current events magazine in New York City edited by Theodore Roosevelt. Graham died on January 23, 1910.

Citation:

“Veteran Editor Dies,” St. Louis Star and Times, January 24, 1910

Obituary, “Joseph A. Graham,” Salisbury Advertiser, January 29, 1910

Scope and Content Note

The Joseph A. Graham papers consist of manuscript materials and photographs documenting the business and personal life of Joseph A. Graham and the Graham family from circa 1860-1942, with the bulk of the records dating from 1896 to 1905. The collection includes a letter from President Grover Cleveland to Joseph Graham on the Democratic Party of Kansas from 1892. The collection also includes original pen and ink sketches by political cartoonist Ryan Walker for The St. Louis Republic from 1901.

Series I: Correspondence, contains letters, postcards and telegrams to and from Joseph, Mary and Harriet Graham from 1883-1930. It includes correspondence from editors and journalists, including Henry Bassford, Charles Grasty, Alfred Henry Lewis, Charles Bertrand Lewis, and Walter Williams; from politicians, including Missouri Governors Thomas Crittenden, A.M. Dockery and David Francis; and from prominent members of society, including Mary Baird Bryan and Ruth Baird Bryan, the wife and daughter of William Jennings Bryan, and Price Collier, a Unitarian minister and brother-in-law of Sarah Delano Roosevelt. The series also includes telegrams of condolences on the death of Harriet Graham in 1904.

Series II: Photographs, contains photographic prints of Joseph Graham, the Graham family and acquaintances of Joseph Graham from circa 1860- 1930. It includes photographs of Graham’s brother, Robert Patterson Graham, Maryland Comptroller and Secretary of State, his sister, Alice Frances Graham Gunby and his brother-in-law, L.W. Gunby, a prominent businessman from Salisbury, Maryland, from circa 1890-1920. Graham attended performances at the Grand Opera House of St. Louis, and the series also includes promotional photographs of actors Sarah Bernhardt, Henry Irving, Richard Mansfield, Mary Mannering and Julia Marlowe from circa 1896-1905.

Series III: Ephemera contains materials collected by Joseph, Mary and Harriet Graham from 1886-1942. It includes a menu from a banquet honoring David Francis, President of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition from 1903. The series also includes a receipt from The Outlook to Joseph Graham for an article from 1906.

Arrangement Statement

The Joseph A. Graham papers are arranged into three series: Correspondence, Photographs and Ephemera. Series I and II are arranged by subject. Series III is arranged chronologically. The intellectual arrangement mirrors the physical arrangement. Folders are listed by their location in each box; any given subject may be dispersed throughout the entirety of the collection.

Subject Terms

Topical Terms
- Collier Family
- Graham Family
- Gunby Family
- Journalism
- Newspapers
- Theater
Corporate Names
- Kansas City Times
- Louisiana Purchase Exposition
- St. Louis Republic
Personal Names
- Cleveland, Grover (1837-1908)
- Graham, Harriet (1887-1904)
- Graham, Joseph A. (1855-1910)
- Graham, Mary (1862-1947)
- Walker, Ryan (1870-1932)
Location Terms
- Wicomico County (Md.)

Inventory List

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Box 1

Series I: Correspondence

From Levin T. H. Irving to Joseph Graham, 1884 December 11
From Amelie Rives to Joseph Graham, 1888 May 10
From E.E. Hoffman to Joseph Graham, 1890 July 11
From David Francis to Joseph Graham, 1892 May 20 and 1905 May 31
From Grover Cleveland to Joseph Graham, 1892 July 15
From J. Bower to Joseph Graham, 1892 December 24
From Charles Bertrand Lewis to Joseph Graham, 1894 April 3
From W. Mann to Joseph Graham, circa 1896-1905
From Richard Mansfield to Joseph Graham, circa 1896-1905
From D.L. Moody to Joseph Graham, 1898 August 10
From Mary Baird Bryan to Joseph Graham, 1900 February 5
Postcard, From Clarence Dean to Joseph Graham, 1902 January 1
From A.M. Dockery to Joseph Graham, 1903 January 3 and 1904 December 22
From Price Collier to Joseph Graham, 1904 January 5
From Hanford Crawford to Joseph Graham, 1904 December 19
From Joseph Fining to Joseph Graham, 1904 December 19
From E.P. Creecy to Joseph Graham, 1904 December 20
From Charles Grasty to Joseph Graham, 1904 December 20
From J.D. Hopkins to Joseph Graham, 1904 December 20
From Henry King to Joseph Graham, 1904 December 20
From Charles Mills to Joseph Graham, 1904 December 21
From J.P. Blanton to Joseph Graham, 1904 December 22
From W.T. Stark to Joseph Graham, 1904 December 22
From Thomas Crittenden to Joseph Graham, 1904 December 23
From Harry King Tootle to Joseph Graham, 1904 December 23
From J.J. Dickinson to Joseph Graham, 1904 December 27
From Edward Wild to Joseph Graham, 1904 December 27
From Delbert Haff to Joseph Graham, 1904 December 29
From Hugh O’Donnell to Joseph Graham, 1904 December 29
From D. Austin Latchaw to Joseph Graham, 1904
From Alfred Henry Lewis to Joseph Graham, 1904
From Telegrams, From Various People to Joseph Graham and Mary Graham, 1904
From W.H. Lee to Joseph Graham, 1905 January 9
From Richard Jesse to Joseph Graham, 1905 January 28
From George Broderick to Joseph Graham, 1905 February 13
Postcard, From ____ to Joseph Graham, 1907 August 12
From Joseph Graham to Mary Graham, 1885 January 3
From Joseph Graham to Mary Graham, ____ May 27
From Joseph Graham to Mary Graham, 1907 November 13
From Joseph Graham to Mary Graham, 1907 December 14
From Joseph Graham to Mary Graham, 1907 December 27
From Joseph Graham to Mary Graham, 1908 January 3
From Joseph Graham to Mary Graham, 1908 January 4
From Joseph Graham to Mary Graham, 1908 January 18
From Joseph Graham to Mary Graham, 1908 January 27
From Joseph Graham to Mary Graham, 1908 March 7
From Joseph Graham to Mary Graham, 1909 August 15
Postcards, From Joseph Graham to Mary Graham, 1909
From Ruth Baird Bryan to Mary Graham, 1900 February 25
From O’Neill Ryan to Mary Graham, 1904 December 21
From Lucretia Washburn to Mary Graham, 1904 December 25
From Louise ____ to Mary Graham, 1905 February 24
From Clinton Crandall to Mary Graham, 1905 March 1
From J.M. Beall to Mary Graham, 1910 January 24
From Edson Brace to Mary Graham, 1910 January 24
From William Martin to Mary Graham, 1910 January 24
From Effie Eppes Osborne Hawes to Mary Graham, 1910 January 25
From Walter Williams to Mary Graham, 1910 January 25
From Homer Bassford to Mary Graham, 1910 January 28
From J.L. Pickering to Mary Graham, 1910 January 29
From Charles Harwood to Mary Graham, 1910 February 23 and 1915 September 7
From Alfred Henry Lewis to Mary Graham, 1910
Telegrams, From Various People to Mary Graham, 1910
Postcard, From J.D.W. to Mary Graham, 1912 July 31
Postcard, From Johnnie ____ to Mary Graham, 1918 October 4
From Matt Blair St. John to Mary Graham, 1929 October 22 and 1930 August 14
From Joseph Graham to Harriet Graham, 1899 June 26
From Mary Graham to Harriet Graham
From Harriet Graham to Gabriel Wiegel “Master Gabriel,” 1904 September 4

Series II: Photographs

70. Joseph Graham, circa 1896-1905

71. Group Including Joseph Graham, circa 1896-1905

72. Home of Joseph and Mary Graham, St. Louis, Missouri, circa 1896-1905

73. Mary Graham, circa 1884

74. Mary and Harriet Graham, Taken by Joseph Graham, 1898 October 10

75. Harriet Graham, circa 1887-1893

76. Harriet Graham, circa 1893-1899

77. Harriet Graham, circa 1899-1904

78. Groups Including Harriet Graham, circa 1890-1900

79. Alpine Bodine Hollowell Graham, circa 1890

80. Donald Boyd Graham, circa 1901

81. Eugenia Graham, circa 1900

82. Helen Graham, circa 1900

83. Irma Graham, circa 1880-1890

84. Robert Patterson Graham, circa 1920

85. Possibly Louisa Collier Graham, circa 1900

86. Groups Including L.W. Gunby and Alice Frances Graham Gunby, circa 1890-1900

87. Levin Collier, circa 1890

88. Henry Bassford, 1901 November 10

89. Sarah Bernhardt, circa 1896-1905

90. Belle Franks, circa 1890

91. Theodore Hamilton, circa 1900

92. Henry Irving, circa 1900

93. Cayloma Evans Ittner and Anthony Evans Ittner, 1905

94. Belle Jones, circa 1900

95. Richard Mansfield, circa 1896-1905

96. Julia Marlowe, circa 1896-1905

97. W.B. Miller, circa 1910

98. Lillian Moore, circa 1890

99. Emma Lou Smith, circa 1900

100. John Dunning Tearse, circa 1927

101. ____ Wharton, circa 1880

102. ____ Wharton, circa 1880

103. Emma Williams and Group Including Emma Williams, circa 1896-1905

104. Unidentified Portraits, circa 1860-1880

105. Unidentified Portraits, circa 1880-1920

106. Tintypes, Unidentified Portraits, circa 1890

107. Unidentified Group, Kansas City, Missouri, circa 1884-1896

108. Philippines Exhibit, Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, Missouri, 1904

109. Surveyors, 1910

110. Tugboat, circa 1900

Series III: Ephemera

111. Menu, Banquet in Honor of the Completion of the Toledo, Ann Arbor and North Michigan Railway, Alma, Michigan, 1886 November 12

112. Business Card, Reverend S.C. Palmer, Lafayette Park Presbyterian Church, St. Louis, Missouri, circa 1896-1905

113. Essay, “How I Spent My Summer,” Harriet Graham, circa 1900

114. Essay, “The Dandelion,” Harriet Graham, circa 1900

115. Postcard, First Presbyterian Church, Baltimore, Maryland, circa 1900

116. Valentine’s Day Card, Harriet Graham, 1902 February 14

117. Menu, Banquet in Honor of David Francis, President of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, Missouri, 1903 March 23

118. Receipt, The Outlook Company to Joseph Graham, 1906 September 21

119. Certificate, Women’s Board of Home Missions to Mary Graham, 1918 November 11

120. Postcard, C.H. Lears, Manufacturers of Slumber Maid Bedding, Baltimore, Maryland, 1939

121. Newspaper Clipping, New York Times, 1942 July 11

122. Essay, “Honor, The Guide of Life,” Nellie Rock Humphreys, undated

123. Essay, “Resolved, that Hope of Reward is a Greater Incentive to Action than Corporal Punishment,” unsigned, undated

Oversize

Newspaper Clipping, The Review Supplement, Address by Joseph Graham Delivered at the Antioch Union Society Meeting, 1889 June 17
Photograph, Joseph Graham, circa 1896-1905
Photograph, Mary Mannering, circa 1896-1905
Photograph, Unidentified Men in Automobile, circa 1896-1905
Pen and Ink Sketch, “Governor A.M. Dockery,” Ryan Walker, 1901

Artifacts

Artifacts

Half-tone Copper Plate Etching, Calling Card, “Miss Harriet Ashley Graham,” circa 1900
Ribbon, “Princeton 1869-1904 ’69 Reunion,” 1904
Uncle Joe’s Tobacco, 1910 January 25

Attachments

None

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