Charles W. Upham | |
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| Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromMassachusetts's6th district | |
| In office March 4, 1853 – March 3, 1855 | |
| Preceded by | George T. Davis |
| Succeeded by | Timothy Davis |
| 7thMayor ofSalem, Massachusetts | |
| In office 1852–1853 | |
| Preceded by | David Pingree |
| Succeeded by | Asahel Huntington |
| Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives forEssex | |
| 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 theMassachusetts Constitutional Convention of 1853 | |
| In office 1853–1853 | |
| Member of the Massachusetts Senate forEssex | |
| In office 1850–1850 | |
| In office 1857–1858 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Charles Wentworth Upham (1802-05-04)May 4, 1802 |
| Died | June 15, 1875(1875-06-15) (aged 73) Salem, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Nationality | Canadian, American |
| Political party | Whig,Free Soil,Republican |
| Spouse | Ann Susan Holmes |
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Charles Wentworth Upham (May 4, 1802 – June 15, 1875) was aU.S. Representative fromMassachusetts. Upham was also a member, andPresident of the Massachusetts State Senate, the 7thMayor ofSalem, Massachusetts, and twice a member of theMassachusetts StateHouse of Representatives. Upham was the cousin ofGeorge Baxter Upham andJabez Upham. Upham was later a historian of Salem and the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 when he lived there.
Charles Wentworth Upham was born inSaint John in theNew Brunswick Colony ofBritish Canada on May 4, 1802 to Col. Joshua Upham, Supreme Court Justice of New Brunswick, and his second wife Mary Chandler. Joshua Upham was born in Brookfield, MA in 1741 and died in England in 1808.
Charles W. Upham married Ann Susan Holmes on March 29, 1826. She was the daughter of Rev. Abiel 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 survived to adulthood; Charles Wentworth Upham Jr. born in 1830 and died at the age of 30 inBuffalo, 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 (Mary Wendell Upham and Elizabeth Upham); 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 thePorcellian Club.[1] A classmate and former friend ofRalph Waldo Emerson, Upham was an opponent of the burgeoningTranscendentalism movement and later engineered forNathaniel Hawthorne to be dismissed from his job at the Salemcustom house.[2] He also arranged forJones Very to be institutionalized atMcClean Asylum.[3] SenatorCharles Sumner once referred to Upham as "that smooth, smiling, oily man of God".[2]
In 1858, Upham was elected a member of theAmerican Antiquarian Society.[4]
Upham died on June 15, 1875, in Salem, Massachusetts.
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