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Taylor (GRAHAM an American social)

GRAHAM, an American social worker, born at Schenectady, N. Y., in 1851. He was educated at Rutgers College, and from there in 1870 went to the Reformed Theological Seminary at New Brunswick, N. J. In 1880 he became pastor of the Fourth Congregational Church at Hartford, Conn., acting also for four years ending in 1892 as professor of practical theology at Hartford Seminary. He then became professor of social economics at the Chicago Theological Seminary and from 1894 resident warden of the from warden the Chicago Commons Social Settlement, which he founded. He was president of the Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy, and associate editor of "The Survey. He wrote "Religion in Social Action."