Graham

Graham
Graham in reference to crackers, etc., from unsifted whole-wheat flour, 1834, Amer.Eng., from Sylvester Graham (1794-1851), U.S. dietetic reformer and temperance advocate. The family name is attested from early 12c., an Anglo-Norman form of the place name Grantham (Lincolnshire).

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