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 UPDEGRAFF

UPHAM

moved to Texas in 1834:; was appointed by Pres- ident Lamar, attornej'-general for the eastern dis- trict of Texas; declined a place in General Houston's cabinet; returned to Kentucky, and located permanently near Bowling Green in 1838. He was a representative from Warren county in the state legislature, 1848; a state senator, 1849- 53; was elected a representative from the third Kentucky district, as an American, to the 84th and 35th congresses, serving, 1855-59, and was U.S. consul at Glasgow, Scotland, by appoint- ment from President Lincoln, 1862-65. On his return he temporarily practised law in San Fran- cisco, Cal., but in 1866 made his home at " Mt. Air," near Bowling Green, Ky., where he died, March 12, 1873.

UPDEGRAFF, Thomas, representative, was born in Tioga county. Pa., April 3, 1834; son of William and Rachel (Smith) Updegraff; grand- son of Thomas and Elizabetli (Rothrock) Upde- graff and of Alexander and Rebecca Smith, and a descendant of Abram Updegraff (Op-den - Graeffe), born at Crefeldt on the lower Rhine, who settled at Germantown, Pa., under the auspices of William Penn in 1683. He attended private schools; one term at University of Notre Dame, Ind., and one year with a private tutor, and at an academy at Binghamton, N.Y., and was clerk of the district court of Clayton county, Iowa, 1856- 60. He was married, first. June 1, 1858, to Laura A., daughter of Levi and Abigail Piatt of Huron county, Ohio, who died in January, 1865; sec- ondly, Oct. 2, 1867, to Florence Eliza, daughter of Charles and Mary (Ray) Haight of Glens Falls, N.Y. He was admitted to the bar in September, 1860, and commenced practice in McGregor, Iowa. He was a member of the state legislature, 1878, serving as chairman of the judiciary committee, and was a Republican representative from the third Iowa district in the 46th and 47th, and from the fourth Iowa district in the 53d, 54th and 55th congresses, serving, 1879-83 and 1893-99. He was a member of the board of education of McGregor, for many years, and city solicitor for several terms, and a delegate to the Republican na- tional convention at Chicago, 111., 1888. In 1903 Mr. Updegraff was made chairman of the de- partment of archaeological, historical and statis- tical information, Iowa Louisiana Purchase ex- position commission.

UPFOLD, George, first bishop of Indiana and 50th in succession in the American episcopate, was born at Sheneley Green, Surrey, England, May 7, 1796. The family came to the United States in 1804, settling in Albany, N.Y., George Upfold was graduated from Union college in 1814, and from the College of Physicians and Sur- geons, New York city, 1816. He subsequently studied theology, and was admitted to the

diaconate by Bishop Hobart in Trinity church, New York city, Oct. 1, 1818, and advanced to the priesthood, July 13, 1820, in Trinity church, Lansingburg, N.Y. He was rector of Trinity, 1820-22; of St. Luke's, New Y^ork city, 1822-30; of St. Thomas's, 1830-31, and of Trinity, Pitts- burg, Pa., 1831-49. He was chosen bishop of the newly erected diocese of Indiana and was conse- crated in Christ church, Indianap- olis, Ind., Dec. 16, 1849, by Bishops Smith, Mcllvaine and Kemper as- sisted by Bishop Haroks. He as- sumed the rectoi-ship of St. John' church, Lafayette, Ind., which place he made the see city, 1850-57, and in 1857 removed to Indianapolis. Bishop Upfold re- ceived the honorary degree of D.D. from Col- umbia, 1831; and that of LL.D. from the West- ern University of Pennsylvania, 1856. He is the author of: The Last Hundred Years, a lecture (1845); Manual of Devotions for Domestic and Private Use (1863), and several sermons. He died in Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 26, 1872.

UPHAM, Warren, geologist and librarian, was born in Amherst, N.H., March 8, 1850; son of Jacob and Sarah (Hayward) Upham; grandson of Jacob and Sarah (Pratt) Upham and of Will- iam and Dorcas (Townsend) Hayward, and a de- scendant of John (died, 1681) and Elizabeth (Slade) Upham, who came from England in 1635, settled first in Weymouth, Mass., and sub- sequently in Maiden, Muss. He attended the dis- trict schools; assisted on the home farm, and was graduated from Dartmouth college, A.B., 1871. He was connected with the Concord (N.H.) water-works as civil engineer and en- gaged in railroad surveying in New Hampshire, 1872-74; served as assistant on the geological sur- vey of the latter state, 1875-78; on that of Min- nesota, 1879-85; and in the U.S. geological sur- vey, 1885-95. He was appointed librarian of the Western Reserve Historical society in April, 1895. but resigned in the following November to be- come secretary and librarian of the Minnesota Historical society at St. Paul. He was married, Oct. 22. 1885, to Addie Minerva, daughter of John and Malinda (Schagel) Bixby of Aurora, Minn. He was elected a fellow of the Geological Society of America, 1889, and a member of the Victoria Institute, London, 1890. He received the degree of A.M. from Dartmouth in 1894. He became associate editor of the American Geologist in 1892, edited the Glacialists' Magazine, London. 189.3-96. and contributed extensively to the " Geol- ogy of New Hampshire" (Vol. I., 1874; Vol. III.. 1878), and to the " Geology of Minnesota" (Vol. I., 1884: Vol. II., 1888; Vol. IV., 1899); and also bulletins No. 39 and No. 72 of the U.S. geological survey (1887 and 1891). In addition to various