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 6i4 UPHAM. UPHAM. for college in Preston Richardson's private school, which afterwards became Harford Academy, and later, Harford University. He entered the junior class, Amherst, from which college he was graduated in the class of 1830 with honors. He spent the first year after his gradua- tion in teaching in Amherst Academy, and the next year in studying theology at An- dover. He was tutor in Amherst College the next two years (1832-34), and during the next two (i834-'36) he finished his theological studies, partly at Andover and partly at New York, under Dr. Skinner, in the class out of which the Union Theolog- ical Seminary was developed. He was licensed to preach February 29, 1836, by the Third Presbytery of New York, and was ordained at North Amherst in 1854. He has been professor in Amherst College, first of Latin and Greek, then of (".reek only, from 1X36 until the present time. Professor Tyler was married in Bing- hamton, N. Y., September 4, 1839, to Amelia Ogden, daughter of Mason and Mary (Edwards) Whiting (grand-daughter of President Edwards). Of this union were four sons : Mason Whiting, William Wellington, Henry Mather, and John Ma- son Tyler — all graduates of Amherst. Two are professors, in Smith College and Amherst, one a lawyer in New York Citv, and one a mechanical engineer. Professor Tyler is a trustee of Williston Seminary, Easthampton ; Smith College, Northampton; and Mt. Holyoke Seminary and College, South Hadley. He gave the address at the quarter-century celebration, Williston Seminary, and the semi-centen- nial address at Amherst College and at Mt. Holyoke Seminary. He has published the following works : " Memoirs of Rev. Henry Lobdell, M. I)., Missionary at Mosul ; " " Plato's Apology and Crito ; " "The Theology of the Greek 1'octs ; " "The History of Amherst Col- lege," etc. The degree of I). 1). was con- ferred upon him by Harvard University in 1857, and T,T,. I), by Amherst in [871, and again by Harvard at its two hundred and fiftieth anniversary in 1886. UPHAM, SAMUEL O., was born in Waltham, Middlesex county, January 21, 1824. His was a common school education. He was an operative in cotton mills in his youthful days, but upon finally leaving school he was apprenticed to a hatter, and served four years, then followed the busi- ness until 1 860. His first entry into political life was in 1S55, when he was elected to tin- lower branch of the Legislature. In 185N, when General Hanks was elected governor, Mr. I'pham was elected messenger to the governor and council, and held the position three years. From 1861 to '65 he was inspector in the Boston custom house, retiring to go into business in that city. From 1867 to '71 he was a member of the board of select- men of Waltham, and in July, 1869, he was appointed postmaster under President Grant's administration. This office he in id until March, 1886, and his faithful, efficient, and conservative administration is a part of Waltham's local history. Released from his office, he was solicited as a leader in the political contest of 1886, and was nominated and again elected to the Legislature. As the senior member of the House, he presided over its delibera- SAMUEL O UPHAM. tions until the election of a speaker, lie was re-elected in 1887. In 1888 he was