of his sons afterward becoming distinguished in the British army; one of them, Samuel, after a career of honorable valor, attaining the high rank of general, and being rewarded with the posts of Inspector General of the forces in Scotland and Governor of the Royal Castle of Stirling, where he resided for many years. The other brother was arrested in his military career by receiving a shot through his body at the siege of Charleston, S. C., although he survived his wound, and subsequently married a lady of that state.

Dr. Graham, on thus beginning life anew, cherished a plan of settling in America, somewhere along the line of the Mohawk River, and was glad to relinquish his private and not unremunerative practice in Paisley for an appointment as surgeon in the 60th regiment (Royal Americans), British army, which was stationed in Canada, hoping, should he still desire to make his permanent home in the colony of New York, to dispose of his commission. This somewhat vague and not well-digested plan was the first leading of Providence toward the establishment of Mrs. Graham and her descendants in America.

Within a twelvemonth after reaching Canada Dr. Graham was ordered to join the second battalion of his regiment in Fort Niagara, a strongly fortified post on the right bank of the Niagara River, just where it enters Lake Ontario, founded as early as 1736. The fort has been greatly enlarged, improved, and strengthened since it passed into the hands of the United States, presenting a grand and picturesque

view to the observer from the water or the opposite shore; but the officers' quarters still remain, only slightly altered from their original structure. Traditions of the 60th linger about the ramparts, and until within a few years the site of "the doctor's garden," where Dr. Graham amused his leisure hours, was pointed out in a peach orchard, afterward planted. Subsequently, we are told, the land, undermined by the storm-river waves of "wild Ontario," slid into the lake. The reader is presented with two views; one of the exterior, from the Canada shore, for which the author is grateful to the courtesy of the gentlemanly artist, Captain John Van Clerc, of Lewiston, Niagara County, N. Y.; the other, a photograph of the interior, looking west, the discovery of which is due to the kindness of Captain George Mead, U. S. Engineers. In the rooms on the ground floor, north of the entrance of the officers' quarters, Joanna, second daughter of Mrs. Isabella Graham, subsequently the wife of Divie Bethune, was born, February 1st, 1770.