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{{Infobox writer
| name = Mary H. Graves
| image = MARY H. GRAVES.jpg
| caption = "[[A Woman of the Century]]"
| birth_name = Mary Hannah Graves
| birth_date = September 12, 1839
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| occupation = {{hlist|minister|literary editor|writer}}
| language = English
| alma_mater = [[Abbot Academy]], [[Salem State University|State Normal School at Salem]]
| notableworks = ''[[Sketches of representative women of New England]]''
}}
'''Mary H. Graves''' (September 12, 1839 – December 5, 1908) was an American [[Unitarianism|Unitarian]] minister, literary editor, and writer of the [[long nineteenth century]]. After [[Julia Ward Howe]], Graves was the second woman to be ordained within this [[Christian theology|Christian theological]] [[Sociological classifications of religious movements|movement]].{{sfn|Harris|2018|p=104}}
She aspired to the ministry, and studied under the guidance of Rev. [[Olympia Brown]] of the [[Universalist Church of America|Universalist]] faith. She was ordained by [[James Freeman Clarke]] as a Unitarian minister, and passed years in several pastorates, the earliest of which was at [[Mansfield, Massachusetts]]. She preached with acceptance in various places in the west, in [[Peoria, Illinois]], [[Earlville, Illinois]], and [[Manitou, Colorado]]. She also gave to friends valuable assistance in the education of their children. As the years wore on, her strength proved unequal to the arduous duties of the ministry, and her time was filled with literary work. She contributed occasionally to the pages of ''[[The Christian Register]]'', and other periodicals. With Julia Ward Howe, Graves edited a volume on the eminent women of New England, ''[[Sketches of representative women of New England]]'' (1904).{{sfn|American Unitarian Association|1908|p=16}}{{sfn|H. W. Wilson Company|1906|p=864}}
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