Charles Wentworth Upham
| Charles Wentworth Upham | |
|---|---|
 |
|
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts's 6th district |
|
|
In office March 4, 1853 – March 3, 1855 |
|
| Preceded by | George T. Davis |
| Succeeded by | Timothy Davis |
| 7th Mayor of Salem, Massachusetts |
|
|
In office 1852–1853 |
|
| Preceded by | David Pingree |
| Succeeded by | Asahel Huntington |
| Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives for Essex |
|
|
In office 1849–1849 |
|
|
In office 1859–1860 |
|
| President of the Massachusetts Senate | |
|
In office 1857–1858 |
|
| Preceded by | Elihu C. Baker |
| Succeeded by | Charles A. Phelps |
| Member of the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention of 1853 | |
|
In office 1853–1853 |
|
| Member of the Massachusetts Senate for Essex |
|
|
In office 1850–1850 |
|
|
In office 1857–1858 |
|
| Personal details | |
| Born | May 4, 1802 Saint John, New Brunswick |
| Died | June 15, 1875 (aged 73) Salem, Massachusetts |
| Nationality | Canadian, American |
| Political party | Whig, Free Soil, Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Ann Susan Holmes |
| Signature |  |
Charles Wentworth Upham (May 4, 1802 – June 15, 1875) was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts. Upham was also a member, and President of the Massachusetts State Senate, the 7th Mayor of Salem, Massachusetts, and twice a member of the Massachusetts State House of Representatives. Upham was the cousin of George Baxter Upham and Jabez Upham.
Charles Wentworth Upham was born in Saint John, New Brunswick on May 4, 1802.
Upham married Ann Susan Holmes March 29, 1826. She was the daughter of Rev. Abeil Holmes and Sarah Oliver Wendell. Ann was the sister of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Charles and Ann had 15 children all born in Salem, Massachusetts and only four lived to adulthood; Charles Wentworth Upham Jr. born in 1830 and died at the age of 30 in Buffalo, New York, married to Mary Haven, no children; William Phineas Upham born in 1836 and died in 1905, Newton, Massachusetts, married to Cynthia Bailey Nurse and had two daughters; Sarah Wendell Upham born 1839 and died unmarried at 25; and Oliver Wendell Holmes Upham born in 1843 and died in 1905, Salem, Massachusetts, married to Caroline Ely Wilson, one daughter (Dorothy Quincy Upham, b. 1881) and one son (Charles Wentworth Upham, b. 1883).
He attended Harvard in the class of 1821, and was a member of the Porcellian Club. A classmate and former friend of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Upham was an opponent of the burgeoning Transcendentalism movement and later engineered for Nathaniel Hawthorne to be dismissed from his job at the Salem custom house. He also arranged for Jones Very to be institutionalized at McClean Asylum. Senator Charles Sumner once referred to Upham as "that smooth, smiling, oily man of God".
...
Wikipedia