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Born in Suffield, Connecticut, he was ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1826, but turned out not to be suited to that life style. He was a keen student of healthy living and the vegetarian diet, and in 1829 he invented a food article from unsifted flour which was then called "Graham bread". This item continues to be popular as " Graham crackers" or "Graham biscuits".

Graham developed a significant following of grahamites in response to his eloquent lectures and writings. To the temperanceSee: temperance (virtue) Temperance movement, a socio-political movement Temperance album by Astrud Gilberto. movement he offered a vegetarian diet as a cure for alcoholismAlcoholism is an addictive dependency on alcohol characterised by craving (a strong need to drink); loss of control (being unable to stop); physical dependence and withdrawal symptoms; and tolerance (increasing difficulty of becoming drunk). 1820 Alcoholi. He also advocated sexual restraint and bathing.

In 1837Events January 10 DePauw University founded in Greencastle, Indiana January 26 Michigan is admitted as the 26th U. State February 8 Richard Johnson becomes the first Vice President of the United States chosen by the United States Senate February 11 Americ he had difficulty finding a place to speak in Boston because of threatened riots by butcherA butcher is someone who prepares various meats and other related goods for sale. Many butchers sell their goods through private stores, but nowadays, most meat is sold through supermarkets. See also Slaughterhouse Cooking Food preparation and serving rels because he preached strict vegetarianism, and by bakerA baker is someone who bakes and sells bread, cakes and similar foods. The place where the baker works is called a bakery . Baker's yeast is a leavening agent. A baker's dozen is a group of thirteen things (an old-fashioned expression). See Bakers' Compans because he advocated home baking and avoidance of commercially produced nutritionless white breadWhite bread is bread which has been made from wheat flour which has been bleached white from its normal brownish color. It is seen as a major element in a prototypically American diet, and as a sterotypical element in American culture (see below). The devs.

In 1850Events January 4 The first American ice-skating club is formed ( Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). January 29 Henry Clay introduces the Compromise of 1850 to the United States Congress February 28 University of Utah opens in Salt Lake City, Utah March 7 United he helped to found the American Vegetarian Society modeled on a similar organization established in Great Britain three years earlier.

He died in Northampton, Massachusetts the following year.