Show A O U W Something About Supremo Foreman William Wil-liam II Gmhiui William R Graham was born at Watkins N Y Oct 13 1S2 Fifteen years later the Graham family removed to Wisconsin where the parents yet reside In 1SG1 young Graham Gra-ham entered the cavalry service from Wisconsin and as a dragoon in tho field camo out at the termination of hostilities with an honorable record and a commission in his pocket Upon his return to civil lifo he resumed the education interrupted by tho war as a student of the University of ARch gan at Ann Arbor says The Anchor and Shield He was admitted to the bar of Wisconsin Wis-consin in 1SGS but afterwards quit the law to follow the business of manufacturing His connection with thoA0 U W began in 18r8 as a member of Cedar Falls In lodge No 33 of which body ho was made master workman in 1SSO In 1883 he represented his lodge at tha historical session of tho Iowa grand lodge at Cedar Rapids by which the memorable secession ordinance was adopted On the first of the succeeding April tho II I grand lodge havingmcan been suspended by his direction Bro William H Baxter the then supreme master workman appointed I Bro Graham his deputy to reorganize the order in Iowa In pursuance of authority vested in him as acting grand master workman work-man Bro Graham convened the representatives representa-tives at Marshalltown May 16 18S3 At this meeting the charter was formally reinstated and placed in his charge and so remained until last February when at the same place he having repeatedly declined a reelection it passed into tho custody of his successor the I present grand muster workman of Iowa Bro Graham was thus continuously the grandmaster grand-master workman of that state for about seven years He became a member of the supreme lodge at its Cincinnati session in 1S82 as a representative of his state In 1S83 he began the famous litigation that has since unbrokenly occupied the Iowa courts and is still pending in the supremo tribunal of that state Meanwhile his course in the supremo lodge has been steadily upward until at the last or Louisville session he was elected supreme su-preme foreman by acclamation Tho abovo embraces a rapid review in outlines of Bro Grahams connection with our order |