Show invented graham flour the use of graham and whole wheat bread has spread remarkably in the last few years the inventor of graham bread and flour was rev sylvester graham a new england clergyman who died la northampton mass CO years ago having devoted the major part of bis life to the advocacy of a vegetarian dietetic theory in 1839 he introduced graham bread made of wheat flour and thereafter urged its use in books pamphlets and lectures at first the masses of housewives turned a deaf ear toward bis arguments but gradually graham flour won its way and became an established commercial product |