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	Sylvester Graham - LoveToKnow 1911
		SYLVESTER GRAHAM (1794-1851), American dietarian, was born in Suffield, Connecticut, in 1794.
		There were many Grahamites at Brook Farm, and the American Physiological Society published in Boston in 1837 and 1838 a weekly called The Graham Journal of Health and Longevity, designed to illustrate by facts and sustain by reason and principles the science of human life as taught by Sylvester Graham, edited by David Campbell.
		Graham wrote Essay on Cholera (1832); The Esculapian Tablets of the Nineteenth Century (1834); Lectures to Young Men on Chastity (2nd ed., 1837); and Bread and Bread Making; and projected a work designed to show that his system was not counter to the Holy Scriptures.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Sylvester_Graham (297 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Graham cracker
		Sylvester Graham (1794-1851) Sylvester Graham (July 5, 1794 â€“; September 11, 1851) was born in Suffield, Connecticut, and was ordained in 1826 as a Presbyterian minister.
		Some modern commercial graham crackers are no longer considered health food, but have remained popular as a snack food with greater amounts of sugar, honey and other sweeteners than in the original recipe, and far less graham flour, often with no whole-wheat flour whatsoever.
		Graham was also inspired by the temperance movement and preached that a vegetarian diet was a cure for alcoholism.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Graham-cracker (1135 words)

	Sylvester Graham - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Sylvester Graham (July 5, 1794 - September 11, 1851) was born in Suffield, Connecticut, and was ordained in 1826 as a Presbyterian minister.
		Graham argued that chemical additives in bread made it unwholesome, and he was correct: both alum and chlorine are now known to be toxic.
		Graham was also inspired by the temperance movement and preached that a vegetarian diet was a cure for alcoholism, and, more importantly, sexual urges.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Sylvester_Graham (657 words)

	Graham Cracker: How Products are Made
		Graham crackers and related animal crackers are whole wheat crackers made with a special type of flour.
		Graham was an early nineteenth century health reformer who lectured on the evils of meat, alcohol, fat, and processed grains such as refined flour.
		Sylvester Graham, born in Connecticut in 1794, was always sickly, small, and suffered from mental breakdowns.
	science.enotes.com /how-products-encyclopedia/graham-cracker (2103 words)

	Sweet cracker legacy of Sylvester Graham's crusade for healthful living
		Their inventor, Sylvester Graham (1794-1851), was a Connecticut cleric, a social reformer and a ferocious advocate of healthful living.
		The graham cracker is the lone survivor of Graham's crusade.
		Graham flour is essentially the same as whole wheat flour -- that is, flour that has been minimally processed and ground from the entire wheat kernel (bran, germ and endosperm).
	www.post-gazette.com /food/20010809grahams0809fnp3.asp (827 words)

	Sylvester Graham
		Sylvester Graham (Suffield, Connecticut 1794-07-05 - Northampton, Massachusetts 1851-09-11) was an American reformer.
		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".
		Graham developed a significant following of grahamites in response to his eloquent lectures and writings.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/sy/Sylvester_Graham.html (164 words)

	Sylvester Graham Summary
		Graham was raised by relatives who gave little attention to his development, and he worked at scattered tasks until he was 19 years old, when he began to cultivate his mind.
		Sylvester Graham (July 5, 1794 - September 11, 1851) was born in Suffield, Connecticut, and was ordained in 1826 as a Presbyterian minister.
		Graham was also inspired by the temperance movement and preached that a vegetarian diet was a cure for alcoholism, and, more importantly, sexual urges.
	www.bookrags.com /Sylvester_Graham (942 words)

	Graham Family Papers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		John Graham was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1694, and was educated at Glasgow as a physician.
		Graham was one of the great promoters of the revivals that swept the Connecticut River Valley in 1740, and was considered to be earnest, faithful and intelligent as a preacher.
		Sylvester Graham was raised by a succession of relatives, working as a farm hand, clerk and teacher before chronic ill health led him to choose the ministry as a less stressful profession.
	www.clements.umich.edu /Webguides/G/Graham.html (776 words)

	History of Vegetarianism - Sylvester Graham (1795-1851)
		Inventor of graham flour and the graham cracker
		Sylvester Graham was an American Presbyterian minister (ordained in 1826) who preached on temperance and stressed whole-wheat flour and vegetarian diets.
		Graham had many devoted followers, known as Grahamites, who slavishly followed his principles, which included temperance, sexual restraint, and baths, in addition to vegetarianism.
	www.ivu.org /history/usa19/graham.html (304 words)

	THE GRAHAM CRACKER
		Sylvester Graham was born in 1794, probably the 17th child of a 70 year old father who was a minister of the gospel.
		At age two, Sylvester was an orphan and a ward of charity.
		Sylvester Graham was treated by his countrymen as either a nut or a religious man. But he preached against the dangers of alcohol, white flour, meat, gluttony, obesity and body odor.
	www.drmirkin.com /nutrition/8561.html (471 words)

	Inventor Sylvester Graham
		Graham bread was invented by Sylvester Graham in 1829, for his vegetarian diet.
		Sylvester Graham was born on July 5, 1794, in West Suffield, Conn. His father, a 72-year-old clergyman, died 2 years later.
		Graham was raised by relatives who gave little attention to his development, and he worked at scattered tasks until he was 19 years old..
	www.ideafinder.com /history/inventors/graham.htm (564 words)

	Sylvester Graham
		Although he was an ordained Presbyterian minister, Graham achieved fame for his touting of unsifted, coarsely ground wheat flour.
		In 1829, he invented the graham cracker, whose main ingredient was the coarsely ground graham flour.
		Graham flour had been around for a long time, but it wasn't until this famous minister came along that it achieved real notice.
	www.famousveggie.com /sylvestorg.cfm (223 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: Graham Crackers Origin
		The Reverend Sylvester Graham, a Presbyterian minister who became a social reformer and a ferocious advocate of healthful living, is the man who put the 'graham' into the treat we now know and love as graham crackers.
		Graham believed a strict vegetarian diet would aid in suppressing carnal urges; to this end, he advocated a regimen devoid of meat and rich in fiber as a way of combating rampant desire.
		Although Graham had his adherents during his lifetime, he was mostly regarded as a bit of a nut.
	www.snopes.com /food/origins/grahamcrackers.asp (516 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Sylvester Graham was born on July 5, 1794, in West Suffield, Conn. His father, a 72-year-old clergyman, died 2 years later.
		Graham was raised by relatives who gave little attention to his development, and he worked at scattered tasks until he was 19 years old, when he began to cultivate his mind.
		Graham's vogue faded as suddenly as it had flourished, partly because his disciples divided into parts what he had seen as a grand design.
	www.myidproject.com /denver/BenC/Index.html (572 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Sylvester Graham was born in West Suffield, Connecticut.
		The graham cracker is named for Sylvester Graham, though it bears no resemblance to the bread he promoted.
		Graham died at the age of 57 and is buried in the Bridge Street Cemetary.
	www.historic-northampton.org /Articles/213/543/8/954192028 (109 words)

	Silvester Gram (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Sylvester Graham, best known today for his invention of Graham crackers, was from a line of clergymen-physicians and was born in West Suffield in 1794, the 17th child of the 72-year old Reverend John Graham, Jr.
		Graham decided to prepare for the ministry also, and studied languages at Amherst College briefly in 1823.
		Graham’s most ambitious work, Lectures on the Science of Human Life, published in 1839, became a leading text on health reform, but his popularity waned after 1840 and he died in 1851 before completing The Philosophy of Sacred History, a collection of his lectures relating his theories of living habits to the scriptures.
	www.suffield-library.org /localhistory/graham.htm (192 words)

	Hodgson Mill - Premium Quality Since 1882 : What is Whole Wheat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Graham Flour is named after Sylvester Graham, the earliest of the 19th century health reformers.
		Dr. Graham, as he was called, though he had no formal medical training, was born in 1794, the 17th child of Reverend John Graham, Jr.
		In 1837, Graham was scheduled to speak at a hall in Boston, but the owners feared that the hall would be burned down.
	www.hodgsonmill.com /cgi-bin/page_viewer.cgi?page_id=100 (416 words)

	The Straight Dope: Is it true graham crackers were invented to cure the dread fever of lust?
		While eating graham crackers recently, we were discussing the myth that they were invented to keep girls from engaging in, uh, self-abuse.
		Health lecturer Sylvester Graham (1794-1851) was trying to save shattered lives--not just of women, but everybody who suffered from what Graham referred to variously as "venereal excess" or "aching sensibility." Graham thought intense physical desire, no matter how expressed and regardless of whether you were married or not, was guaranteed to have dire physiological consequences.
		Graham attracted a fair number of followers, who opened Graham boardinghouses in New York and Boston where his dietary regimen was observed.
	www.straightdope.com /classics/a2_053.html (608 words)

	May 11 - Graham Crackers, Exterminator, Dali, Sylvester Graham
		This is Nabisco's sanitized version of the birth of graham crackers: "The original graham cracker was developed in 1829 by Sylvester Graham, a clergyman." Yeah, they wish.
		Graham noticed was that he attacked sexual abstinence, maintaining that desire (ungratified) irritated the body and caused all kinds of diseases.
		Graham died at 58, maybe a little young even for the times but not at all obscure and not without followers, and with the added attraction of having made an indelible mark on our diets.
	www.goatview.com /may11grahamcrackers.htm (417 words)

	American Masculinities: A Historical Encyclopedia
		Graham was suddenly propelled into a position of cultural influence in 1832, when, amid fears of a cholera outbreak, he advised Americans of the preventative value of proper eating habits and food preparation.
		Graham began to consider the subject of sexuality in his 1835 talk "A Lecture to Young Men, on Chastity." Graham advised his audiences, consisting largely of Northeastern white middle-class men, against any form of sexual indulgence, especially masturbation.
		Graham’s male ethos reflects the contradictions of an age that witnessed the first wave of industrialization and the emergence of a national market economy.
	www.referenceworld.com /mosgroup/masculinity/graham.html (612 words)

	Sylvester Graham
		Inventor of Graham flour, bread and crackers (1829).
		Graham was an American Presbyterian minister who mainly preached nutrition and wanted to reform the eating habits of America and the world.
		He advocated vegetarianism and the use of only coarse, whole grain flour and railed against meat, potatoes, tobacco and alcohol, coffee and tea, chocolate and pastries.
	www.foodreference.com /html/wsylvestergraham.html (209 words)

	Sylvester Graham
		Graham bread was not relegated solely to breakfast, but subsequent reformers would adopt his concept when creating the first cold breakfast cereals.
		One of Graham's more famous works was Lectures to Young Men on Chastity, where he branched out into the sexual reform field and condemned masturbation, too much sex, and even the enjoyment of sex as improperly stimulating to those same vitalities affected by drink, spice, and white bread.
		Graham and his “Grahamite” disciples also opened boardinghouses in New York and Boston where adherents to his system could stop in for meals.
	userwww.sfsu.edu /~ajhardy/graham.htm (628 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / SAWDUST PUDDING
		A few years later the local probate court ruled that Graham’s mother was “in a deranged state of mind.” Graham himself wrote years later, “My mother’s health sank under her complicated trials, the family was broken up, and.
		But Graham’s most famous advice was that bread should be the mainstay of the diet, should be made from the whole grain, and should be baked at home, by the woman of the house, not the servants.
		But Graham himself is all but forgotten, despite his own prediction that a granite shaft would be erected on his grave and his house would become a place of pilgrimage.
	www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/1996/4/1996_4_16_print.shtml (1395 words)

	Sylvester Graham (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Graham, a Presbyterian minister who became a social reformer and a ferocious advocate of healthful living, is the man who...
		Graham was an outspoken advocate of proper health, hygiene, diet, and sexual reform in nineteenth-century America.
		Graham Nash was released as a single in Sweden.
	www.nrcp.co.uk /sylvester_graham.html (254 words)

	Graham flour at AllExperts
		Graham flour is a type of whole wheat flour named after Presbyterian minister Rev.
		Sylvester Graham, an early advocate for dietary reform.
		Graham flour is used to make graham crackers and pie crusts, among other things.
	en.allexperts.com /e/g/gr/graham_flour.htm (269 words)

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