On January 9, 1884 as Andrew B. Graham, he married Jennie G. Evans in the District of Columbia.
The Evening Star
Wednesday, September 8, 1909
Andrew Graham Dead
Prominent Business Man Succumbs to Brain Fever
Native Of Washington
Learned Business of Engraver in Government Bureau
Reproduced U.S. Great Seal
Deceased Had Been Identified With Many Local Institutions
Funeral Probably Saturday
Andrew B. Graham, president of the A.B. Graham Lithographing Company, 413 to 416 14th Street, died about 7:40 o’clock this morning at the family residence, 1407 16th Street. Death was due to brain fever. Mr. Graham had been confined to his home eleven days. He showed signs of improvement last Saturday and seemed to rally some, but the ailment took a turn for the worse and he lapsed into unconsciousness and remained in that condition until the end came this morning.
At his bedside were his wife, Mrs. Jennie G. Graham; his three sons, Lorimer, Jerome and Ormonde Graham, also his sister, Miss Cecelia Graham. Arrangements for the funeral are being made this afternoon. The obsequies will probably be held at 1 o’clock Saturday afternoon from his late home.
Andrew B. Graham was born in this city in 1856. His early education was received in the Washington public schools. Afterward he entered Gonzaga College and later completed a collegiate course at Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Returning to this city, he entered his father’s lithographing plant and learned the business in its entirety, his first task being that of polishing the large lithographic stones. After working his way through the various departments, he received an appointment as a topographical draughtsman in the coast survey, afterward becoming an engraver in that department. There he remained six years, when he returned to work with his father, who in his declining years needed an assistant to relieve him of the onus of his business. Soon after this his father retired, his son succeeding him.
Great Seal in Colors
Notable among the works executed by Andrew B. Graham may be mentioned the reproduction of the great seal of the United States in colors, which was executed for the Department of State to be sent to the American consuls all over the world. This seal, eighteen inches in diameter, done in fourteen colors, is an exquisite bit of work and was recently reproduced upon the set of state china ordered by Mrs. Roosevelt and which, it is stated, cost $30,000.
Mr. Graham was identified with many of Washington’s best-known institutions, among which were the Arlington Fire Insurance Company, of which he was a director; the Riggs Insurance Company and the Union Trust and Storage Company. Of his social and scientific connections may be named membership in the National Geographic Society, the Sons of the American Revolution and the Blue Ridge Rod and Gun Club, respectively. He was also a member of the Board of Trade and the former Business Men’s Association.
He was married in 1884 to Miss Jennie G. Evans, daughter of Thomas Evans of this city, who with three sons, Lorimer, Jerome and Ormonde Graham, survive him.
Father Friend of Statesmen
Andrew B. Graham was a son of Curtis B. Graham, founder of the A.B. Graham Company, who was a prominent citizen of the District in the old days.
He began business here with a capital of but $20. In the selection of a lodging place Curtis B. Graham found himself an inmate of the house in which both Daniel Webster and Henry Clay had rooms. Taking an interest in the youth Andrew, these statesmen secured him an appointment as a lithographer in the Navy Department at a salary of $1,000 a year, at which work he continued until the was came on in 1861. Then, by stress of business, he was compelled to abandon the work, although he did not resign the post nor was a successor appointed in his stead. The business grew and prospered and ere long was one of the most complete in the country.
The elder Graham was a warm friend of Captain Robert E. Lee, United States Army, who afterward became commander of the Confederate armies. When General Lee came to Washington just before the outbreak of the war Mr. Graham tried to dissuade him from resigning from the service of the United States, but General Lee said his duty lay with his people and his state.
The Washington Post
Thursday, September 9, 1909
Andrew B. Graham Dead
Head of Lithographing Firm Succumbs to Brain Fever
Andrew B. Graham, a leading business man of Washington, died at his residence, 1407 Sixteenth Street Northwest, yesterday morning at 7:40 o'clock after an illness of ten days. Death was due to brain fever. Mr. Graham was 55 years old.
Funeral services will be held from the home Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock and interment will be in Oak Hill Cemetery.
Mr. Graham was President of the Andrew B. Graham Company and during recent years had spent most of his time in his office. Ten days ago he became so ill that he was taken to the George Washington Hospital. He was removed to his home last Monday. His wife and three sons, Lorimer, Jerome and Ormonde survive him and were with him at the time of his death.
Mr. Graham was born in this city and spent most of his life here. Entering the Coast Survey at the close of his college graduation he remained in the government service as a draftsman until 1889 when he retired to take charge of his father's business.
Mr. Graham was a member of the Board of Trade and of the Business Men's Association.
There is no consensus as to his birth year, though findagrave states he was born on Christmas Day, 1854, it also has his sister Sarah born two weeks earlier. Almost all of the documents and census records differ, apparently between 1853 and 1859. I think 1853 most likely.