Civil War soldier and Congregational minister.
The son of Rev. Horatio Nelson Graves and Martha (Arms) Graves, James Taylor Graves was born in 1841. He entered Yale with the Class of 1865, but left after his freshman year to join the Union army. Graves served for a year as a corporal in the 52nd Massachusetts Infantry, mainly in Louisiana, before reentering college as a sophomore with the Class of 1866. In 1870 he graduated from the Andover Theological Seminary and was a Congregational minister in Austin, Minn., and Marshall, Ill., before moving to Chicago in 1876. There he was actively associated with the South Central Improvement Association.
From the description of James Taylor Graves papers, [ca. 1850]-1891, bulk 1862-1867. (Newberry Library). WorldCat record id: 47648368
