Local figure
Elijah Graves, a Presbyterian minister who taught at Hillsborough, preached at New Hope Church as stated supply from November 1818 to April 1820 and again from November 1825 to May 1831. A temperance reformer, he persuaded many of his hearers to sign a pledge.
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Photocopied medical diary of Dr. Calvin Elijah Graves (about 1823 to 1868), begun on 1 April 1852 and running into 1854. Graves lived at Old Trinity in Randolph County; his tie to Orange County is his marriage to Caroline M. Foust of Orange about 1845. Four images.
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