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* UPSAiA. 751 URAGA. collections of Gustavus Adolphiis, contains over 300,000 volumes and 12,500 pamphlets. TJPSHTJR, up'sher, Abel Parkek (1790- 1844). An American statesman, born in North- ampton County, Va, He studied law under Wil- liam Wirt {q.v.), and was in 1810 admitted to the bar. In 1824 he was elected to the State Legislature, in 1826 was appointed a judge of the Virginia General Court, and in 1829 was made a member of the convention for the revision of the State Constitution. President Tyler appointed him Secretary of the Navy in 1841, and in 1843 he was transferred to the post of Secretary of State, left vacant by the resignation of Daniel Webster. He was an extreme supporter of States' rights and slavery. His death was caused by the bursting of a gun on board U. S. S. Princeton. He published an Inquiry Into the 'Nature and Character of Our Federal Government (1840). TJP'SON, Anson Judd (1823-1902). An Amer- ican clergj-man and educator, born in Philadel- phia, Pa., and educated at Hamilton College and Union College. In 1849 he was appointed pro- fessor of rhetoric and moral philosophy at Hamil- ton, and from 1853 to 1870 was professor of logic and rhetoric there. He then became pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church in Albany. He was appointed professor of sacred rhetoric and pastoral theology at Auburn Seminary in 1880, and in 1887 became professor emeritus. In 1890 he was made chancellor of the University of the State of New York. TJP'TON, Emory (1839-81). An American soldier, born at Bafavia, N. Y. He graduated at West Point in 1861 ; served as aide-de-camp on the staff of General Tyler, and while so doing was wounded in the battle of Bull Run ; fought in the Peninsular campaign and in the Maryland campaign; and was commissioned colonel of the I21st New York volunteers on October 23, 1862. He was engaged in the Battle of Fredericks- burg; commanded a brigade of the Sixth Corps at Gettysburg, Rappahannock Station, and Mine Run, and in the Wilderness campaign and part of the Richmond campaign. At Spottsylvania in May, 1864, he was wounded while leading the as- saulting column of twelve regiments of the Sixth Corps, and as a reward for his gallantry was bre- vetted lieutenant-colonel of the Twenty-fifth In- fantry from 1866. He was wounded at Opequan in the Shenandoah campaign, and for gallant conduct at Winchester was brevetted major- general of volunteers. He later commanded the Fourth Cavalry Division in Gen. J. H. Wilson's operations in Georgia, and for his services in the assault on Selma was brevetted brigadier- general in the Regular Army. After the war he served as lieutenant-colonel of the Twenty-fifth Infantry from 1886 until 1880, when he became colonel of the Fourth Artillery. He was also en- gaged in preparing a system of tactics for the service, and from 1870 until 1875 was commandant of cadets at the Military Academy at West Point. Not long after his promo- tion to the rank of colonel his mind became af- fected and he committed suicide. His published works include: A Neu- fiysfem of Infantri) Tac- tics (1867; 2d ed. 1874); Tactics for Non- Mililary liodies (1870) ; and The Armies of Asia and Europe (1878). Consult Michie, Life and Letters of Major-Qeneral Emory Upton (New York, 1885). UPTON, George Putnam (1835—). An American musical critic, born in Huston, and educated at Brown University. From 1801 to 1885 he was on the editorial staff of the Cliicagci Tribune. In 1872 he founded and became first president of the Apollo Club. His works include: Letters of Peregrine Pickle (1870) ; Woman in Music (1885); Standard Operas (1890; 15th ed, 1902); Standard Oratorios (1891); Stand- ard Symphonies (1892). TIK, er (Heb, '«r, Bab. Uru) . An ancient metropolis of Southern Babylonia, which has been identified with the modern Mukayyir, gen- erally written Mugheir. This site lies close to the Euphrates, at the point where the canal Shat-cl-Hai connects this river with the Tigris, while the Wady Rummein gives it access to Arabia. Hence, it was in a position most eligi- ble for commerce and political greatness, which it enjoyed from the earliest period of Babylonian history. It was the chief seat in Babylonia of the worship of the moon-god Sin, whose massive temple still stands 70 feet above the plain. There are traces of an early dynasty about B.C. 4000, according to one school of chronology, while about B.C. 3000 the kings Ur-Gur and Dungi I. made Ur the capital of "Sumer and Akkad," i.e. Babylonia. Anotlicr dynasty, about B.C. 2400, ap- peals, claiming imperial dominion, and from its time there remains an interesting bodj- of con- tracts, revealing the commercial development of the city. It finally succumbed to Babylon's great- ness, but continued a sacred and important place throughout Babylonian history. The biblical passages call it Ur of the Chaldees, and make it the starting point of the migration of Abraham's family westward (Gen. xi. 27-32). As this tra- dition is preserved in the Priestly Narrative alone, the identification has been doubted by va- rious scholars, who would prefer to find the bib- lical Ur in the region of the Upper Euphrates. The first examinations of IMukayyir were made by Loftus, and its excavation by .1, E. Taylor in 1854. Consult: Rogers, History of liahylonia and Assyria (New Y'ork, 1901) ; Hilprecht, Explora- tions in Bible Lands (Philadelphia, 1903). See Abraham. TTRABA, oo'ra-Ba', Gulf op. The former name for the Gulf of Darien and now applied to the southern portion. See Dakien. TJR.a!]VnA ( Neo-Lat., from Gk. ovpop., ouron, urine -f- aliia, haima, blood). A disease charac- terized by convulsions, headache, vomiting, and general malaise, and due to the retention, in the liver and in the blood, of the urea which should be transformed into urates and eliminated with the urine. The symptoms are due to the toxic effect of urea upon the brain and central nervous system. The total daily excretion of urea should be from 300 to 600 grains. If the total remain long under 300, the symptoms of unrmia may follow. Excretion of urea is hastened by the use of the salicylates, purgatives, especially ela- terium, hot baths, and cupping over the kidneys. TTRAGA, oo-rii'gsi. A village in the Province of Sagami, Japan, 15 miles south-southeast of Yokohama. It lies in two divisions on both sides of a narrov? harbor. There are two large