San Joaquin County Biographies
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Transcribed by: Linda Diane Jackson 1/20/2010
MRS. J.S. GRAHAM
An enterprising business woman who is the proprietor of the Budd Apartments in Stockton is Mrs. J.S. Graham, a native daughter of the state, born at Cherokee, Nevada County. Her father, Jeremiah Morrison, was an early pioneer of California, and is represented in the sketch of her sister, Mrs. Nellie Wehr.
Mrs. Graham was in maidenhood Hanora Morrison. She spent her childhood in Cherokee, Nevada County, receiving a good education in the local school. It was there her first marriage occurred, which united her with John Gaffette, a native of Belgium, who emigrated with his parents to Iowa, where he lived until he was sixteen years of age. He then crossed the plains to California, and engaged in teaming in the Mother Lode country until his death in 1903. There were four children in their family: Kate, the wife of T.P. Coughlan, of Stockton; John, who died at thirty-two years of age; Roy, deceased when eight years old; and Percy, who died at eighteen years of age.
Several years after Mr. Gaffette's death his widow married again, the ceremony taking place in Sacramento, when Hanora Gaffette became the wife of James S. Graham, a native son born in Nevada County, a son of James and Alice Graham, California pioneers who settled in Nevada County. Mr. Graham was a mining man in Nevada County. They moved to Stockton in 1906, and there engaged in the hotel business, first as proprietors of the Kansas House and later of the St. James Hotel; and after disposing of this, they became proprietors of the City Hotel, which they conducted until 1922, when it was sold. Soon afterwards Mrs. Graham purchased the Budd Apartments, a modern and popular apartment house, and there they now make their home. Mr. Graham is a popular member of the Loyal Order of Moose.
History of
SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
With A
Biographical Review
of
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been
Identified with Its Growth and Development
from the Early Days to the Present
HISTORY BY
George H. Tinkham
HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
1923
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