BENJAMIN A. GRAVES, Sec. 2; P. O. Platteville; born in Mercer Co., Penn., Dec. 11, 1825. Married Miss Lurancy Ray July 25, 1845; she was born Feb. 14, 1828, in Trumbull Co., Ohio. In 1848, they came to Wisconsin, where Mr. Graves began as a teamster in this town; he afterward rented farms for a number of years until enough was earned and saved for the purchase of a farm of his own in 1858. This farm he sold to a brother in 1875; he then bought his present 107-acre farm of George McFall. Mr. Graves is a member of the U. B. Church, and a Republican; has been Constable, etc. During the last eight months of the rebellion, he served as one of the 44th W. V. I. Have eight children - George, Roswell, Mary A., Arnold, Martha, Lulu, Lurinda and Hattie; they lost two - Joab, aged 6, and Lorenzo, aged 2.

This biography generously submitted by Roxanne Munns.