CHARLES GRAFFIN. The man and his devoted helpmate who rear a family of sons who bear a truly fraternal spirit to one another, are gallant and devoted to father and mother, manly and honorable in business, ready to toil, and above all alive to their relation to God and their own souls' highest welfare, are a people who are really great. True worth is measured by blood, wherefore he who contributes an honorable type of manhood to a community leaves that community far more richly endowed that he who shines before his yellows in the glitter of large possessions, not a crumb of which he is willing to share.

When a young man of sixteen, he came to Catasauqua and learnt the trade of cobbler at which he toiled for seven years. In 1856 Burgess David Thomas appointed him as the first policeman of Catasauqua. During the Civil War he served as an emergency man in the 38th Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers. After his honorable discharge from the Army, he was employed as time and store-keeper at the Crane Iron Works, where he served for thirty-four years. In 1893 he was elected to the office of Justice of the Peace. President McKinley apt pointed him Post Master of Catasauqua in 1900, and in 1904 President Roosevelt re-appointed him. The Free Delivery System was established during his administration, for which a grateful people pay him a cheerful tribute. His son Samuel S. succeeded his father in the Post Office and is carrying out many details which his father had planned.