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90 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. | 
J. Cist, Julius Dexter, John Carlisle, Henry Urner, and A‘ T. Gos- 
horn. He was interred in the Graham lot in Spring Grove. | 
He has been described as a man of remarkable appearance, having 
clearly-cut classical features, positive Roman nose, finely-cut mouth, 
and decisive chin, with the old-time gentleness of manner which would 
have attracted attention in any country. Here, when strangers or. 
younger persons inquired as to who the remarkable-looking old gentle- 
man might be, they simply learned that it was George Graham, an old 
citizen. He was identified with or interested in all the recent events 
that have tended to improve the metropolitan character of the city, 
and especially in the musical and esthetical culture. . He attended his 
jast Operatic Festival only the Saturday evening before his decease, 
when, it is supposed, that some slight exposure caused him to contract. 
the indisposition which proved fatal in three days. | 
He was for many years an active member of the Chamber of Com- 
merce, of this city, and later in life, in compliment of his eminent 
services in public affairs, in earlier periods, he was elected an honorary 
life member of that influential body of merchants. The Chamber, in its 
‘memorial giving the expression of their members upon his life and 
character, says : | 
“Mr. Graham was always a close observer and thinker, a devoted 
student of nature, and a careful reader of books. He thus acquired a 
great fund of knowledge, both scientific and practical. He was a 
man of great general information, and possessed a happy faculty of 
imparting knowledge to others in a manner fascinating to friends, 
Even after all active participation of his with enterprises, the efforts of 
younger men to advance the interests of and build up the city of his 
adoption, met with his hearty sympathy, as though these efforts were the 
reflex in his later life of the courage and integrity with which his ca- 
reer was marked in earlier days.” 
