History of Lakewood, (Ocean County) New Jersey United States of America

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Charles Kinnaird Graham, engineer, was born in New York city, June 3, 1824. He received a liberal education and entered the U.S. service as a midshipman in 1841. During the Mexican war he served actively in the Gulf of Mexico till 1848, when he resigned, returned to New York city and took up the study of engineering. In 1857 he became constructing engineer at the Brooklyn navy yard and superintended the building of the dry-dock and landing-ways. In 1861 he volunteered in the service of the United States with several hundred men who had worked under him in the navy yard. This company formed the Excelsior brigade of which he finally became colonel. In 1862 he was commissioned brigadier-general for services with the Army of the Potomac. In the battle of Gettysburg he was twice wounded and then taken prisoner. After his release he commanded a gunboat flotilla under Gen. B. F. Butler on the James river and took part in the attack on Fort Fisher. At the close of the war he returned to the practice of engineering in New York city and on March 13, 1865, received the brevet of major-general of volunteers. He was chief engineer of the New York dock department, 1873-75; surveyor of the port, 1878-83, and naval officer, 1883-85. He died at Lakewood, N.J., April 15, 1889.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

History of Lakewood, (Ocean County) New Jersey

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