[4] In December 1897, a few months after her wedding, the United States Department of the Treasury, in Custom house broker, femme sole (18653.

[3] After the loss of their home and property in Chicago, the family went to Cincinnati, Ohio, where they began life anew.

One year prior to his death, which occurred in 1884, he took into partnership with him his older daughter, Matilda, styling the firm E. & M. Graser.

In the fall of 1886, when seventeen years old, Graser opened a new office as customs broker and forwarder, her sister's successor having sold out to her present competitor.

The greater amount of tinplates arriving at Cincinnati between January and July, 1891, went through her office, and her undertaking proved very successful.

[9] On December 7, 1897, W. B. Howell, Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury Department ruled on the usage of Graser's professional signature after marriage as follows:—[10] "Replying to your letter of the 20th ultimo, requesting to be advised whether a certain Mrs. ––––– formerly Miss H. R. Graser, doing business as a customs broker at your port, and holding powers of attorney for many firms to transact such business, having married, can continue to transact business under her maiden name, under the same powers of attorney held by her before marriage, I have to inform you.

that the Solicitor of the Treasury, to whom this matter was referred, advises this Department, under date of the 2d instant, that in his opinion Miss H. R. Graser may continue to represent her constituents in the transaction of customs business as a femme sole, but that as a further means of identification and for the sake of consistency, she should be required to add to her signature the words: 'Now Mrs. –––––,' etc., stating her proper designation as a femme consort.

"Graser was appointed sub-Chair of the Clifton District for the Woman's Division of the Hamilton County Myers Y. Cooper-for-Governor Club in 1926.