Upshur, Abel Parker – Ussher, Brandram Boileau
Upshur, Abel Parker
lawyer, jurist, congressman, author, was born June 17, 1790, in Northampton county, Va. In 1826 he was chosen judge of the general court of Virginia; and was again chosen judge, serving many years. In 1841 he went into the cabinet of President Tyler as secretary of the navy. In 1843 he was transferred to the head of the state department. He was the author of Inquiry into the Nature and Character of Our Federal Government. He died Feb. 28, 1844, near Washington, D. C.
Upshur, Mary Jane Stith
author, poet, was born April 7, 1828, in Accomac county, Va. She has contributed to southern periodicals both prose and poetry, commonly under the pen-name of Fanny Fielding. Her principal work is Confederate Notes, an historical novel, which appeared anonymously in 1867 in the Home Monthly, published at Nashville, Tenn.
Upson, Anson Judd
clergyman, educator, was born Nov. 7, 1823, in Philadelphia, Pa. This eminent presbyterian clergyman has been professor of sacred rhetoric in the Auburn Theological seminary, and since 1874 has been connected with the university of New York as regent, vice-chancellor and chancellor.
Upson, Charles
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born March 19, 1821, in Southington, Conn. In 1849-50 he was county clerk for St. Joseph county, Mich.; and in 1853-54 was prosecuting attorney for the same. In 1855-56 he held the office of state senator; and in 1861 and 1862 was attorney-general for Michi- He was elected a representative gan. from Michigan to the thirty-eighth congress; and was re-elected to the thirtyninth and fortieth congresses. He died Sept. 5, 1885, in Coldwater, Mich.
Upson, Columbus
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 17, 1829, in Onondaga county, N. Y. He served in the confederate army as a colonel during the war of the rebellion. He was elected a representative from Texas to the fortysixth congress to fill a vacancy; and was re-elected to the forty-seventh congress as a democrat.
Upson, William H
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Jan. 11, 1823, in Worthington, Ohio. He was elected to the Ohio state senate in 1854 and 1855. He was elected a representative from Ohio to the forty-first congress; and was re-elected to the forty-second congress as a republican.
Upton, Charles Horace
diplomat, congressman, was born Aug. 23, 1812, in Salem, Mass. He settled in Fairfax county, Va.; and in 1860 was a representative from that state to congress. In 1863 he was appointed United States consul at Geneva, Switzerland, where he died in June, 1877.
Upton, Emory
soldier, author, was born Aug. 27, 1839, in Batavia, N. Y. He was an officer with the rank of major-general in the federal army during the civil war; and the author of Infantry Tactics; The Armies of Asia and Europe; and Tactics for Non-Military Bodies. He died March 14, 1881, in San Francisco, Cal.
Upton, Francis Henry
lawyer, author, was born May 25, 1814, in Salem, Mass. He was an eminent lawyer of New York city; and the author of Treatise on the Law of Trade-Marks; and The Law of Nations Affecting Commerce During War. He died June 25, 1876, in New York city.
Upton, Francis Robbins
inventor, was born July 26, 1852, in Peabody, Mass.
He became associated with Thomas A.
Edison in the development of the electric light and other inventions, residing in Menlo Park, N. J.
Upton, George Putnam
journalist, author, was born Oct. 25, 1834, in Roxbury, Mass. He is a Chicago journalist; and the author of Letters of Peregrine Pickle; The Great Fire; Woman in Music; The Standard Operas; The Standard Oratorios; The Standard Cantatas; The Standard Symphonies; Lives of Haydn, Liszt, and Wagner, from the German of Nohl; and Memories, from the German of Max Müller.
Upton, Jacob Kendrick
author, was born Oct. 9, 1837, in Wilmot, N. H.
He was the assistant secretary of the treasury in 1880; and the author of Money in Politics; and A Coin Catechism. in
Upton, Larkin
educator, business man, legislator, was born Feb. 4, 1832, in North Reading, Mass. For many years he successfully taught penmanship Massachusetts and in the west. He is a successful mason, contractor and builder of Clinton, Iowa. In 1860-61 he was alderman of Clinton; in 1878-79 was mayor of that city; and served with distinction as a member of the nineteenth and twentieth general assemblies of Iowa.
Upton, Sara Carr
author, was born Jan. 1, 1843. She is a frequent contributor to magazines and has in press a volume of Translations from the French.
Upton, Wheelock Samuel
lawyer, author, was born Jan. 17, 1811, in Salem, Mass. He was one of the compilers of The Louisiana Civil Code, and published An Address at New York. died Oct. 18, 1860, in Carrollton, La.
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Upton, William Henry
lawyer, jurist, author, was born June 19, 1854, in Weaverville, Cal. He has been superior judge at Walla Walla, Wash. He is the author of The Masonic Code of Washington; and a Genealogy of the Upton Family.
Upton, William W
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, author, was born in July, 1817, in Victor, N. Y. He was a representative in the Michigan state legislature in 1847; and was prosecuting attorney at Lansing, Mich., from 1847 to 1852. In the latter year he moved to California; and was a representative in the California legislature in 1856. He was prosecuting attorney of Sacramento county from 1861 to 1863. In 1864 he moved to Oregon; and was an associate justice of the supreme court of Oregon from 1867 to 1872, and chief justice of that court from 1872 to 1874. In 1877-85 he was second comptroller of the treasury of the United States at Washington. He is the author of Digest of Decisions of the Second Comptroller of the Treasury, 1869-84.
Upton, Winslow
educator, astronomer, author, was born Oct. 12, 1853, in Salem. He was a member of the United States expeditions to observe eclipses in 1878 and 1883, and is a member of the principal American and foreign scientific societies, to whose publications he has contributed numerous papers.
Ure, William Andrew
journalist, philanthropist, was born April 8, 1839, in West Farms, N. Y. In 1873 he bought the Sunday Call, which was the leading paper of New Jersey. In 1894 he was elected president of the Newark board of trade.
URMY, CLARENCE [THOMAS], organist, author. He is an organist and verse-writer of San José, Cal.; and the author of A Rosary of Rhyme; and A Vintage of Verse.
Urner, Clarence H
educator, public official, poet, was born April 13, 1856, in New Market, Va. After receiving a thorough education at the New Market Polytechnic institute he began educational work, and for fifteen years was successfully engaged in that profession. He has been clerk in the treasury department of Virginia, and is prominent in the public affairs of that state. He is the author of a number of poems of merit which have appeared in the leading magazines, in Poets of America, and other standard works.
Urner, Milton G
lawyer, congressman, was born July 29,1839, in Frederick county, Md. He was elected state's attorney for his native county in 1871, and served four years. He was elected a representative from Maryland to the fortysixth and forty-seventh congresses as a republican.
Urquhart, Edmond
manufacturer, was born April 5, 1834, in Fort Henry, Canada. He established The Little Rock Oil works, becoming president of the company and among the pioneers of the cotton-seed oil industry in Arkansas. His energy produced an effect almost electrical in this old state.
Cotton fields covered a large part of the territory of Arkansas and cotton seed could be obtained in ample supply. His mill in Little Rock provided a local market for the seed.
Usher, Edward Preston
lawyer, author, was born in 1851 in Massachusetts. He is a Boston lawyer living in Grafton, Mass. In 1877 he was president of the Grafton and Upton railroad. He is the author of Sales of Personal Property; and Protestantism, a Study in the Direction of Religious Truth.
Usher, John
governor, was born April 25, 1648, in Boston, Mass. He was a bookseller and stationer of Boston; and treasurer of Massachusetts. He rendered important services to the province in purchasing the district of Maine. During 1692-97 and 1702 he was lieutenantgovernor of New Hampshire. He died Sept. 1, 1706, in Medford, Mass.
Ussher, Brandram Boileau
physician, clergyman, bishop, poet, was born Aug. 6, 1845, in Dublin, Ireland. He attended the university of Michigan, the University Medical college, Missouri, and received a theological training under Bishop Whiteham of Chicago, Ill. He practiced as a physician for several years in Aurora, Ill.; was a bishop of Canada and Newfoundland in the reformed episcopal church; and is now bishop of the reformed episcopal church, and the pastor of Christ church of Peoria, Ill.
He is a poet of acknowledged excellence, and his poem, entitled The Veteran of Beverly Ford, is worthy of a place beside those of our national poets.