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Underwood, Lucien Marcus – Upham, Nathaniel Gookin
Underwood, Lucien Marcus
educator, botanist, author, was born Oct. 26, 1853, in New Woodstock, N. Y. He is a professor of botany at Syracuse university from 1883; and the author of Systematic Plant Record; Our Native Ferns and How to Study Them; Our Native Ferns and Their Allies; and North American Hepaticæ.
Underwood, Oscar W
lawyer, congressman, was born May 6, 1862, in Louisville, Ky. He is a noted lawyer of Birmingham, Ala. He was chairman of the democratic executive committee of the ninth district in the campaign of 1892; and was elected to the fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth congresses as a democrat. He is a member of several important committees; is an able speaker; and has taken an active part in the passage of several bills of importance to his state.
Updegraff, Jonathan T
physician, surgeon, state senator, congressman, was born in Jefferson county, Ohio. He served as a surgeon in the union army during the war of the rebellion. He was a presidential elector of Ohio in 1872; was a state senator in 1872 and 1873. He was elected a representative from Ohio to the forty-sixth and forty-seventh congresses as a republican. He died Nov. 30, 1882.
Updegraff, Milton
educator, astronomer, was born Feb. 20, 1861, in Decorah, Iowa. Since 1890 he has been professor of astronomy and director of Law's observatory in the university of Missouri at Columbia. He has contributed various articles to astronomical journals.
Updike, Wilkins
lawyer, state legislator, author, was born Jan. 8, 1784, in Kingston, R. I. He served many years in the Rhode Island legislature, and was the author of Memoirs of the Rhode Island Bar; and a History of the Episcopal Church in Narragansett Pier, R. I. He died Jan. 14, 1867, in Kingston, R. I.
Upfold, George
protestant episcopal bishop, author, was born May 7, 1796, in England. He moved to Pennsylvania in 1831, taking the rectorship of Trinity church, Pittsburg, from which post he was elevated to the episcopate. He was consecrated first bishop of Indiana. His writings include The Last Hundred Years, a lecture; Manual of Devotions for Domestic and Private Use; and sermons, pastoral letters and addresses. He died Aug. 26, 1872, in Indianapolis, Ind.
Upham, Francis William
educator, author, was born Sept. 10, 1817, in Rochester, N. H. He was an educator of New York city; and the author of The Debate Between the Church and Science; The Wise Men: Who They Were; The Star of Our Lord; Thoughts on the Gospels; St. Matthew's Witness; and The First Words from God. He died in 1895.
Upham, Joshua
lawyer, jurist, manufacturer, was born Nov. 14, 1741, in Brookfield, Mass. He was a lawyer of Boston; then emigrated to New Brunswick, where he was judge of the supreme court and member of the council during 1784-1807. He is said to have introduced the salt manufacture, and built the first woolen mill in America. He died in 1808 while in London on public business.
Upham, Nathaniel
merchant, state legislator, congressman, governor, was born June 9, 1774, in Deerfield, N. H. He was a member of the legislature of New Hampshire; and was a member of the governor's council from 1811 to 1812. He was a representative in congress from New Hampshire from 1817 to 1823. He died in 1829.
Upham, Nathaniel Gookin
lawyer, jurist, railroad president, was born Jan. 8, 1801, in Deerfield, N. H. From 1833 till 1843 he was judge of the supreme court of New Hampshire, and from 1843 till 1863 he was superintendent of the Concord railroad, of which he was president in 1863-66. He died Dec. 11, 1869, in Concord, N. H.