Zur Graves

GRAVES

Posted By: Diane (email)
Date: 2/24/2002 at 20:17:27

Zur Graves was a native of New York, and came to Butler county in 1855, settling in Jefferson Township, where he remained until 1862, when he went to the war, enlisting in an Illinois regiment. Graves was well educated, and had read considerable law, but he was stuffed with egotism, and had a good deal of nonsense in his composition. It is now said that his admission to the bar was more through sport than anything else. He never had a case.
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Source: History of Butler and Bremer Counties, Iowa
Union Publishing Co., Springfield, IL, 1883
Page 340