Ulysses Grant Graham 1865 - 1946

GRAHAM

Posted By: Connie Swearingen-Volunteer (email)
Date: 4/22/2014 at 12:56:57

Sioux City Journal
15 April 1946

Ulysses Grant Graham, 80, a Sioux Cityan for 39 years, died Saturday in a hospital after a long illness.

Funeral services will be at 2 p. m. Tuesday at the W. Harry Christy funeral home in Morningside with Rev. Wilson Gow officiating. Burial will be in Graceland Park cemetery.

Mr. Graham was born July 4, 1865, at Charleston, W. Va. He was a charter member of the Morningside Masonic lodge and was a 32d degree Mason. He formerly resided at 1712 S. Paxton street.
For 41 years he was employed by Armour & Co. where he was a master mechanic at the time of his retirement in 1931. He installed power plants for the Centennial exposition at Nashville, Tenn., in 1897; for the Trans- Mississippi exposition at Omaha in 1898 and the Greater American at Omaha in 1899. He was president for several years of the National Association of Engineers.

Survivors are the widow, Mary; two sons, Howard of Eldora, Ia., and W. L. of Sioux City; two daughters, Mrs. Roy Snider of Sioux City, and Mrs.
Ernest Hageman of Council Bluffs, Ia; seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.