Robert GRAHAM was a pioneer of 1797, and his family was doubtless the first which settled within the present limits of the borough of Butler. They resided in a log cabin where Mr. DAUGHERTY's fine house now stands, near the North Cemetery, and the location was near but not inside of the original town plat. Robert GRAHAM was born on the banks of the Susquehanna, near Harrisburg, in the year 1768, and emigrated from there to Washington County with his father's family when a young man. He was the youngest of several brothers; was of Scotch-Irish descent, and in his religious views was a Presbyterian, and, for a period of forty years before his death, which occurred in 1849, he was an Elder in the Butler Church. Mr. GRAHAM married, about the year 1800, Miss Sarah BROWN, a sister of Robert BROWN, of Middlesex Township. Their children were William, the first child born in Butler, who died near Pittsburgh, leaving a family; Robert, who died in Penn Township, also leaving a family; James, who is a resident of Williamsport; John B., who is still living in Butler; Rachel, deceased; Mary (HEINER), of Kattanning; WILLIAMSON, who lives in Oakland, Cal.; Samuel, who died when a young man; Sarah (REED), of McKeesport; Lydia (CRAWFORD), of Allegheny County; and Ebenezer, who is a resident of Butler.
