Samuel Camden GRAHAM

1. Samuel Camden Graham was born on 7 Jan 1862 in Butler Co., Pa and died on 24 Jan 1934 in Los Angeles, CA.

Samuel Camden Graham is a native of Pennsylvania, and his parents were William Iddings and Sarah (Davis) Graham, of Butler County. William Idings, a great grandfather of S.C. Graham, was in the Revolutionary War and fought with "Mad" Anthony Wayne in many a desperate battle with the Indians.

S.C. Graham was twenty-six years old when he came to California to engage in the oil production of Ventura County in 1888, having had some valuable experience in this industry in Eastern New York, Ohio, and Kentucky.

For ten years he operated in Ventura with success and then came to Los Angeles and entered the Fullerton field, where he developed the Graham-Loftus properties. He has been continuously connected with the oil industry during the thirty-one years he has resided in California, and has promoted many enterprises.

Mr. Graham is also well known in the political life of the State, for while never desiring office himself and declining many honors in this direction, he is recognized as a deep student of political questions and devotes much time to the study of the country's natural resources and the development of the same. In 1911 he served by appointment of Governor Johnson on the State Board of the Water Commission and during the building of the Los Angeles Aqueduct wrote many instructive articles and gave
addresses on economic distribution of the water.

He was actively identified with the Non-partisan and Good Government organizations of Los Angeles city and county and served as Police Commissioner for a term.

Oil
	Worked in Pennsylvania fields with Harvey Hardison
	Lease associating SC Graham, T. Bard, W. Loftus, McKevett, D.T. Perkins
	Oil plays in California with Thomas R. Bard
Progressive Politics
	Paper on price fixing during the American war effort
	Progressive reform under Mayor Alexander
	Water Commissioner takes a stand on Owens Valley water
Personal Information
	L.A. Examiner Obituary

Noted events in his life were:

1. Census; 1900; Los Angeles, CA. 1900 Los Angeles twp, Los Angeles, CA 636 S Flower St ED 29-1-25 # 5-10 Samuel C Graham 38, born PA, father b PA, mother b PA, oil driller, rents house; Mamie 27 ME ME ME 1 ch 1 liv; Harland B 6 CA PA ME school for 6 mo

2. Census; 1910; Los Angeles, CA. 1910 1509 Orange St, Los Angeles, CA 108-7 # 6-9 Samuel C Graham 48 mar 17 yr PA oil producer, rents house; Mamie B 37 ME 2 ch 2 liv; Harland B 16 CA school, Graydon B 7 CA school

Samuel married Mamie Brown-[174] [MRIN:3], daughter of Addison John Brown-[202] and Ida M. Hardison-[11004], on 28 Feb 1893 in Santa Paula, Ventura, CA.

Children from this marriage were:

1. Harland Brown Graham-[18]
2. Grayson Bard Graham-[216]