He was a country schoolmaster and agriculture extension pioneer at Ohio State University.

[1] Graham taught at an integrated rural school in Brown Township, Miami County.

Later, Graham worked at the United States Department of Agriculture as the Federal Extension Director.

On January 15, 1902, Graham held the first meeting of the agriculture experiment club in the basement of what was then the Clark County Post Office in Springfield, Ohio (now called the A.

Graham High School in St. Paris, Ohio, was named in his honor, and he attended its first graduation ceremony in 1958.