James Herbert McGraw (1860-1948), born in Harmony, New York, was co-founder of what is now The McGraw-Hill Companies. He was the president of McGraw-Hill from 1917 to 1928. The McGraw Publishing Company and the Hill Publishing Company merged their book departments in 1909. Wikipedia
The definitive Wikipedia entry for James H. McGraw. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_H%2e_McGraw