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MRS. JAMES S. GRAHAM
An enterprising businesswoman 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 immigrated 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 the 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.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Pages
1460-1463. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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