Graeber, A. H.

GRAEBER

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 12/19/2008 at 13:47:16

A. H. Graeber, Receiving Clerk in Local Department of the Union Pacific Transfer Freight Offices, Council Bluffs, is a native of Maryland; born in 1822. His parents, in 1826, moved to Salisbury, N. C., where they died; his father in 1842, and his mother a short time after. In 1854, Mr. Graeber came to Council Bluffs, which was then a town of only 500 inhabitants, and without any railway communication whatever; he engaged with the Western Stage Company here, in whose employ he remained for fifteen years; he now holds the position of Receiving Clerk in the local department of the Union Pacific Railroad Transfer Freight Offices. At Pella, Iowa, in 1870, he married Miss E. M. Post, of that place, and by this union they have had four children - Mary E. V., Ella L., Clara L. and William H. P. Mr. Graeber is a member of the Episcopal Chruch, and is Past Chancellor of the Knights of Pythias. (From the 1882 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa)