Diplomat/Collector
Centurion, 1859–1876
Born 21 January 1831 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Died 30 April 1876 in Florence, Italy
Buried Cimitero Accatolico, Florence, Toscana, Italy
Proposed by Joseph B. Varnum Jr.
Elected 1 October 1859 at age twenty-eight
Archivist’s Note: Nephew of John A. Graham; second cousin of Malcolm Graham. After his death, a series of memorial addresses delivered at the clubhouse by Paul L. Ford, Richard H. Stoddard, Edmund C. Stedman, and James M. Varnum was published as “James Lorimer Graham, Jr., January 17, 1894.”
Proposer of:
Century Memorial
And the open-hearted, open-handed Graham! How many among the children of song and the votaries of art were touched with passionate regret, to learn that that flowing source was still, of help to the striving, praise to the deserving—that the welcoming house in the beautiful city is dark, and the kindly friend, absent so long, shall be seen among us no more!
Augustus R. Macdonough
1877 Century Association Reports