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Isabella Graham was born on July 29, 1742, in the shire of Lanark, Scotland. She was the daughter of John and Janet (Hamilton) Marshall. She grew up in Elderslie, near Paisley, and in the latter place, she sat under the preaching of Rev. John Witherspoon, afterward president of the College of New Jersey.
Graham had good educational advantages, attending for seven winters an excellent school conducted by Mrs. Betty Morehead.
Isabella's husband, Dr. John Graham, was appointed a surgeon of His Britannic Majesty’s 60th or Royal American Regiment, and in 1767, Mrs. Graham accompanied him to Canada. They were first in Quebec, then in Montreal, and spent four years at Fort Niagara on Lake Ontario.
After the death of her husband, she took her family back to Scotland and for a time lived at Cartside. Later, she removed to Paisley where she taught a small school, and finally at the suggestion of friends she took charge of a boarding school in Edinburgh.
Eminently successful in this enterprise, upon the advice of Dr. Witherspoon and others she came to New York in 1789 and established a school for young women, which soon achieved a high reputation.
In November 1797, the Society for the Relief of Poor Widows with Small Children, said to be the earliest organization of its kind in America, was formed at her home; and she became its directress.
After 1798, when she gave up teaching, she devoted practically all her time to philanthropic work.
On March 15, 1806, she presided at a meeting in the city hall at which the Orphan Asylum Society, probably the first in the United States, was organized.
The following year an asylum was built. When in 1811, the Magdalen Society was formed Mrs. Graham was made the president of the board of ladies entrusted with the internal management of Magdalen House, an office which she held until her death.
She was active in the organization of the Society for the Promotion of Industry Among the Poor (1814), and just before her death started a Sunday-school for adults in the village of Greenwich.
Much of her correspondence and many devotional exercises written by her were published by her daughter, Mrs. Bethune, under the title, The Power of Faith: Exemplified in the Life and Writings of the Late Mrs. Isabella Graham, of New-York (1816), the biographical portions being supplied by Divie Bethune. It went through numerous editions here and abroad.
An abridgment, The Life of Mrs. Isabella Graham, was issued in 1839, and an enlargement of the first edition in 1843. Mrs. Bethune also edited The Unpublished Letters and Correspondence of Mrs. Isabella Graham (1838).
Isabella Graham established a school for young women in New York, which soon achieved a high reputation. In New York, she was interested in improving the condition of the poor. The Society for the Relief of Poor Widows with Small Children, said to be the earliest organization of its kind in America, was formed at her home. Also, she started a Sunday-school for adults in the village of Greenwich.
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Isabella Graham was a woman of earnest Scotch piety, given to good works, always devoting a tenth of her income to religious and charitable purposes. While in Edinburgh she suggested the idea of poor persons putting aside a penny a week to constitute a fund to help contributors when sick.
This “Penny Society” developed into the Society for the Relief of the Destitute Sick. Similarly, in New York, she interested herself in improving the condition of the poor.
In 1765, Isabella became the second wife of Dr. John Graham, a physician of Paisley. In 1772, they went with the regiment to the island of Antigua where the following year Dr. Graham died.
Mrs. Graham was left with three daughters, the oldest not more than five, and shortly a son was born.
