1887 - John McGraw at 14 years old

1887 - John McGraw at 14 years old in Truxton, NY in front of the hotel he lived in after he left home. Three years earlier his mother and three siblings died from diphtheria. The family was split up when John's father became inconsolable and dove to the bottom of a liquor bottle. Earliest known photo of McGraw. (tintype reprinted in the Elmira Telegram 1910)