Frederick Worden Montrose Graham, 87, retired owner of the F.W. Graham & Co., real estate firm, died yesterday afternoon at his home, 1629 Columbia road N.W., after a four-day illness.
He was the son of Curtis Burr Graham, who in the 1840's developed a process for multiple lithographing and handled much of the Government's lithography.
Mr. Graham was born in what had been Washington's city hall when the town had a mayor His father bought the building on the present site of the District Court and converted it into a residence. Mr. Graham was named for his first cousin, Rear Admiral John L. Worden, commander of the Monitor when it battled the Confederate's ironclad Merrimac in the Civil War, and his ancestor, James Graham, the Duke of Montrose. He was also a descendant of Gilbert and Isaac Graham, surgeons on General Washington's staff during the Revolution.
After graduating from Franklin School, Mr. Graham founded the real estate firm. His offices were at 1502 H street N.W. when he retired in 1928.
He was a member of the Sons of the Revolution and a life member of the Army and Navy Country Club. The club site was originally included in a 160-acre tract owned by his father along the present Columbia pike, Arlington.
Surviving are Mr. Graham's widow, Mrs. Edith Gillis Campbell Graham whom he married in 1890; a daughter, Mrs. Mary Graham Payne, of San Francisco; a granddaughter, Mrs. Edith Payne Blackburn, Quonset Point, R.I., and a great granddaughter.