Nathaniel Upham

For the Associate Justice for the New Hampshire Supreme Court, see Nathaniel Gookin Upham.

Nathaniel Upham
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from New Hampshire's at-large district
In office
March 4, 1817 – March 4, 1823
Preceded byJeduthun Wilcox
Succeeded byThomas Whipple, Jr.
Member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives
In office
1807–1809
Personal details
Born(1774-06-09)June 9, 1774
Deerfield, Province of New Hampshire, British America
DiedJuly 10, 1829(1829-07-10) (aged 55)
Rochester, New Hampshire, U.S.
Resting placeOld Rochester Cemetery, Rochester, New Hampshire
Political partyDemocratic-Republican
SpouseJudith C Cogswell Upham
RelationsTimothy (b)
Children
ProfessionMerchant
Politician

Nathaniel Upham (June 9, 1774 – July 10, 1829) was an American politician and a United States representative from New Hampshire.

Early life

Upham was born in Deerfield in the Province of New Hampshire on June 9, 1774, pursued classical studies and attended the Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter in 1793. He engaged in mercantile pursuits at Gilmanton in 1794, at Deerfield in 1796, at Portsmouth in 1801, and at Rochester in 1802 and afterward.

Career

Upham was a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives 1807–1809. He was a governor's counselor in 1811 and 1812[1] and was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Fifteenth Congress and reelected to the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Congresses (March 4, 1817 – March 3, 1823).[2] He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1822. After leaving Congress, he returned to Rochester, and became interested in educational work.[3]

Death

Upham died in Rochester on July 10, 1829, and is interred at Old Rochester Cemetery.[4]

Family life

Upham descended from an early American family. The Uphams first came to the United States in 1635, when John Upham settled in Weymouth, Massachusetts. Nathaniel was one of two sons born six generations later to Rev. Timothy Upham, the pastor of the Congregationalist church in Deerfield, New Hampshire. His younger brother, Timothy, was a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army during the War of 1812.[5]

Upham's eldest son was Thomas Cogswell Upham, a dominant figure in American academic psychology during the 19th century, a writer of devotional works, and a biographer of Madame Guyon. He second-eldest son was Nathaniel Gookin Upham, an Associate Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court and fellow state legislator. His daughter Mary married twice, first to David Barker Jr., and after she was widowed, she became the second wife of Eben Coe. With Coe she had two children including Thomas Upham Coe, a prominent doctor and lumber baron in Bangor, Maine.[6][7][8][9] She was also a step-mother to Henry Willard Coe, Sr., a pioneer of California and the first to export hops from the area.[10][11] His son is the namesake of the largest state park in Northern California: Henry W. Coe State Park.[12][13][6]

References

  1. ^ Herringshaw, Thomas William (1904). Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century: Accurate and Succinct Biographies of Famous Men and Women in All Walks of Life who are Or Have Been the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States Since Its Formation. American Publishers' Association, 1904. p. 952. Retrieved June 12, 2014.
  2. ^ Capace, Nancy (January 2000). Encyclopedia of New Hampshire Encyclopedia of the United States. North American Book Dist LLC, 2001. pp. 395–396. ISBN 9780403096015. Retrieved June 12, 2014.
  3. ^ "Nathaniel Upham". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved June 12, 2014.
  4. ^ Find-a-Grave: Nathaniel Upham (1774–1829), accessed Dec 2017.
  5. ^ Noyes 1871, pp. 3–4.
  6. ^ a b Bartlett, J. Gardner (1911). Robert Coe, Puritan. Published for private circulation. ISBN 9780598765826.
  7. ^ Reilly, Wayne E. (March 12, 2017). "A look back at the millionaire 'lumber kings' of Bangor". Bangor Daily News.
  8. ^ Hatch, Louis Clinton, ed. (1919). Maine: A History. Vol. 4. American Historical Society.
  9. ^ Burke, Molly (February 25, 2011). "Dudley Coe stands as a testament to College history". The Bowdoin Orient. Retrieved July 7, 2024.
  10. ^ Irvine, Leigh Hadley (1903). A History of the New California: Its Resources and People. Vol. 2. California: Lewis Publishing Company.
  11. ^ Sawyer, Eugene Taylor (1922). History of Santa Clara County, California. California: Historic Record Company.
  12. ^ "Coe's 10,000 Year History". www.coeparkfund.org. Retrieved July 5, 2024.
  13. ^ Brooks, Eric (July 2, 2023). "Bay Area hike to Henry W. Coe State Park famous for solitude, tarantulas". SFGate.
U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from New Hampshire's at-large congressional district
1817-1823 		Succeeded by
Thomas Whipple, Jr.