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Upton, Francis Robbins – Usher, Edward Preston

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, 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, 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.