Graham, Ernest Robert
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Wikipedia page about Ernest Robert Graham
Ernest Robert Graham (Saturday, August 22, 1868 – Sunday, November 22, 1936).
Graham was born in Lowell, Kent County, Michigan, the son of Robert William Graham and Emma Elizabeth Graham, nee: Emma Elizabeth Post. Employed first by Burnham and Root in Chicago, then by D.H. Burnham & Co., Graham was involved in the engineering and design of Chicago's Columbian Exposition of 1893. He was a co-founder of Graham, Anderson, Probst & White, the successor firm to Daniel Burnham's practice. Graham designed the National Postal Museum in Washington, D.C. and the Equitable Building in New York City, among many others.
Graham planned or contributed to in Chicago were the Merchandise Mart, Field Building (now the La Salle Bank Building), Wrigley Building, Field Museum of Natural History reconstruction, Shedd Aquarium, Continental Illinois Bank Building, Union Station (Chicago), Marshall Field & Company Stores, the old Chicago Main Post Office Building, Pittsfield Building, State Bank of Chicago Building, and the Civic Opera House.
Graham married Carlotta Hall about 1898. He married his second wife, Ruby Fitzhugh Leffingwell Graham, nee: Ruby Fitzhugh Leffingwell Powell in 1925 at Stokes Poges Church, England. Graham is the uncle of Robert Klark Graham, founder of the controversial "Nobel Sperm Bank".
He died at his home at 25 E. Banks Street, Chicago, Illinois, aged 68.
