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216 " Musical Miscellanea." — His son, Winslow, as- tronomer, b. in Salem, 12 Oct., 1853, was graduated at Brown university in 1875, was a student of as- tronomy at Cincinnati observatory in 1875-'7, and received the degree of A. M. from the University of Cincinnati in the latter year. He was assistant at the Harvard observatory in 1877-9, assistant en- gineer on the U. S. lake survey in 1879-'80, com- puter in the U. S. naval observatory in 1880-'7, com- puter and assistant professor in the U. S. signal office in 1881-'4, and has been professor of astrono- my in Brown university since January, 1884. He was a member of the U. S. 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 numer- ous papers. Of these, the following have been re- printed : " Photometric Observations " (Cambridge, 1879); "The Solar Eclipse of 1878" (Salem, 1879); " Report on Observations made on the Expedition to Caroline Island to observe the Total Solar Eclipse of May 6, 1883 " (Washington. 1884) ; " An Investi- gation of Cyclonic Phenomena in New England " (Ann Arbor, Mich., 1887) ; " Meteorological Observa- tions during the Solar Eclipse, Aug. 19, 1887 " (1888) ; and "The Storm of March 11-14, 1888 " (1888).

UPTON, Samuel, editor, b. in Middleton. Mass., in 1784 ; d. in Washington. D. C, 3 March, 1842. His ancestor, John (1620-'99), came to New Eng- land as early as 1638, and ultimately settled in what is now North Reading, Mass., where he be- came a great landed proprietor and one of the most influential citizens. He was one of the first to deprecate the inordinate influence of the clergy in the colony, and was conspicuous for his opposi- tion to religious tests in civil matters and to the prosecutions for witchcraft. He was ancestor of all the other Uptons that are mentioned in these pages. Samuel engaged in mercantile and ship- ping business, first at Salem, Mass., and afterward in Castine and Bangor, Me., and Boston. In Maine he exerted a great influence in politics and edited the Bangor " Gazette " and " Whig." In 1819 he represented Castine in the 1st general court. In later life he removed to Washington, D. C, where he is buried in the Congressional cemetery. — His son, Charles Horace, politician, b. in Salem, Mass., 23 Aug., 1812 ; d. in Geneva, Switzerland, in June, 1877, was graduated at Bowdoin in 1834, and settled in Fairfax county, Va., whence he was elected to congress in 1860. In 1863 he was ap- pointed U. S. consul at Geneva, Switzerland. — An- other son, Edward Peirce, lawyer, b. in Castine, . Me., 22 July, 1816, received an academic education, was admitted to the bar, and settled in Virginia, but about 1858 removed to Texas. During the civil war he was a devoted friend of the Union and was indicted for treason against the Confederacy, imprisoned six months, and shot at several times. One of his sons was murdered by a political mob a year after the war. He was appointed judge of the 18th judicial district of Texas in 1867, and held the post two years. — Another son, Francis Henry, lawyer, b. in Salem, Mass., 25 May, 1814 ; d. in New York city, 25 June, 1876, was graduated at Harvard law-school in 1835 and settled in New York city, where he rose to eminence in his profession. During the civil war he held the appointment of counsel for captors in prize courts, and while arguing a case received a stroke of paralysis from which he never recovered. He published " A Treatise on the Law of Trade-Marks, with a Digest and Review of English and American Authorities" (Al- bany, 1860), and " The Law of Nations affecting Commerce during War, with a Review of the Juris- prudence, Practice, and Proceedings of Prize Courts " (New York, 1863). — Francis Henry's daughter, Sara Carr, author, b. 1 Jan., 1843, re- sides in Washington, D. C, where she was for sev- enteen years translator of modern languages in the post-office department. She is a frequent con- tributor to magazines and has in press a volume of " Translations from the French." — Another son of Samuel Upton, Wheelock Samuel, lawyer, b. in Salem, Mass., 17 Jan., 1811 ; d. in Carrollton, La., 18 Oct., 1860, received an academic education, and was graduated at the Harvard law-school in 1832, and settled in New Orleans. He was one of the compilers of "The Louisiana Civil Code" (New Orleans, 1838), and published " An Address at New York " (New York, 1840).

UPTON, William W., jurist, b. in Victor, N. Y., 11 July, 1817. He removed with his parents to Michigan in 1837, and in 1845 was admitted to the bar, and elected treasurer of Clinton county. He was elected to the state legislature in 1847, was appointed district attorney for Ingham coun- ty in 1848, and was elected for two terms of two years each in 1849 and 1851. He resigned this office in 1852 and went to California, where he settled first at Weaverville, and in 1855 in Sacra- mento. He was elected a representative in the legislature of California in 1856, and was prosecut- ing attorney of Sacramento county from 1861 till 1864. In 1865 he removed to Portland, Orgeon, and was at once elected a member of the legisla- ture on the Republican ticket. He had been a Democrat until the civil war. He was appointed associate justice of the supreme court of Oregon in 1867, and was elected to that office for a term of six years in 1868. In 1872 the legislature or- dered more than eighty of his nisi priiis decisions to be printed and bound with the decisions of the supreme court, and he became chief justice the same year. He declined a renomination in 1874 and resumed the practice of his profession. In the presidential controversy of 1876, the vote of Oregon being in doubt, the Republicans practically rested their case before the electoral commission on a decision that had been rendered by Judge Upton upon the question of the power -of the gov- ernor of Oregon to exercise judicial functions. A majority of the supreme court of the state differed with him, but the electoral commission sustained his view. In 1877 he was appointed second comp- troller of the treasury of the United States, but in 1885 he resigned, and resumed the practice of his profession in Washington. He has published a "Digest of Decisions of the Second Comptroller of the Treasury, 1869 to 1884 " (Washington. 1885).

URDANETA, Andrei (oor-dah-nay'-tah), Spanish navigator, b. in Villafranca, Guipuzcoa, in 1499; d. in Mexico, 3 June, 1568. He early at- tained reputation as a skilful navigator, and in 1525 left Mexico as chief pilot of the fleet of Garcia de Loaysa in the expedition to the Moluccas. There he fought against the Portuguese till 1536, when he was sent to report to the emperor, but was shipwrecked on the coast of Portugal, imprisoned in Lisbon, and deprived of his papers and valuables. He escaped, and went to Valladolid, where Charles V. held his court, but, unable to obtain recognition for his services, he entered the order of St. Austin. On his return to Mexico, he was made librarian of his order. In 1558 Philip II., urged by the council of the Indies, decided to pursue the conquest of the Philippine islands. Urdaneta being named to him as the person that best knew those parts, the king wrote to him, in September, 1559, appointing him chief pilot of the