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Upham
Related surnames or alternate spellings: Uphame (early spelling)
Notable ancestors include:
Charles Wentworth Upham, U.S. Representative, Mayor of Salem, Salem Witch Trials historian, etc.
Thomas Cogswell Upham, philosopher
Many notable Upham DAR patriot ancestors and Upham SAR patriots
Mayflower lineage from passengers Elizabeth Tilley and John Howland through Hannah Upham
Genealogy websites
“Phineas Upham Family Genealogy” Personal website on the Massachusetts family line.
“Upham Family” (Rootsweb page)
Message boards
“Upham” posts on Ancestry.com Message Boards
“Upham” posts on Genealogy.com GenForum Message Boards -
“Upham” posts on WikiTree
Social Media Groups & Societies
“Happy 75th Anniversary Upham Woods” Facebook group.
“The Upham Family” Descendants of Edward and Wilberta Upham. Facebook group, private.
Photographs:
“1937 Media Photo Dr. John Upham and Mrs Upham stroll on the boardwalk” Ebay
“2 CDV Photos” - Arthur E. Upham, Boston, and Cousin William Upham, Waltham, MA” Ebay
“Acting Master George D. Upham of U.S. Navy in Uniform” Library of Congress
“Admiral Frank B. Upham, chief of U.S. Navy Bureau of Navigation” The Oregon Historical Society
“Charles Amos Upham, b. 1864” (rootsweb page)
“Com’r F.B. Upham (Frank Brooks Upham)” Library of Congress
“Family cabinet card photo of Jacob, Sarah, Charles and Mary Upham - New Hampshire” Old Photos and Stuff
“F.W. Upham” Library of Congress
“Gov. William H. Upham” National Governors Association
“Maj. Chas. L. Upham, 15th Com. Inf.” Library of Congress
“Members of the Upham family view photos in a sitting room at the Bragg-Mitchell Manson, circa 1910's” Encyclopedia of Alabama.
“Mr. and Mrs. Frank Upham and animals, 1925” and “Views of Frank Upham at various scenic locations around Boulder County, 1925” from Carnegie Library for Local History
“Mrs. J.S. Upham, 5/8/25” Library of Congress
“Sarah Upham Smith” Ebay
“The Upham Sisters: Elizabeth Upham Davis and Caroline Upham Hughes” Upham Woods History, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Upham family fourth of July celebration at camp Blithedale Canyon” 1899. Online Archive of California.
“William and Mary Upham with Two Unidentified People” 1867. Wisconsin Historical Society
“William Upham, 1889” Print found on Ebay
“William Upham, head-and-shoulders portrait, slightly to the left, eyes front” Library of Congress
Local historical or genealogical society website clippings
“Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs: Upham” from the Schenectady Digital History Archive
“Upham family of Massachusetts” Political Graveyard
Online news clippings or blog posts (no paywalls)
“HEROES: Upham Furled” Time.com, 29 May 1939
“Story: Upham, Charles Hazlitt (1908 - 1994)” The Encyclopedia of New Zealand
“Daniel Philips Upham (1832 - 1882)” CALS Encyclopedia of Arkansas
“Upham family genealogy” Excerpt from “Irish Pedigrees; or the Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation” by John O’Hart, 1892 (5th Edition) Vol. 2, as found on LibraryIreland.com
Artifacts
Upham Bible Records (microfilm of typed transcript of original, FamilySearch collection)
Upham family Bible records (Jacob B. Upham, b. January 4, 1824 and Sarah T. Upham, b. February 7, 1826)
Correspondence and Letters
“1865: Tune Upham to Lucinda M. Shoemaker” Spared & Shared 13
“D.P. Upham letters to Henry Upham, pages 1 - 3” UA Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture
“Edward Upham to Levi Lincoln, May 13, 1805” Library of Congress
“Image 1 of Abraham Lincoln papers: Series 1. General Correspondence. 1883-1916: Philena M. Upham to Abraham Lincoln, Saturday, November 26, 1864” Library of Congress
“Letter from Else Louise Upham to John Muir, 1904 Oct 21.” University of the Pacific
“Letter from Thomas Upham to George Dame, 1837 June 29” New Hampshire Historical Society
“Timothy Upham to Henry Dearborn, July 2, 1815” Library of Congress
Homes & Historical Markers
Governor William H. Upham House, North Wood County Historical Society
The Phineas Upham House, Upham Street, Melrose, Mass. Digital Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
“The Upham & Russel Co. Building”, Shawano, WI.
“The Upham Hotel” Santa Barbara Historical Museum
“Upham’s Corner, Dorchester” Historic Boston
Oral Histories
“Upham, Peggy: Prewar Life”, “Upham, Peggy: Recruited by the Curtis Wright Corporation”, “Upham, Peggy: Working on the SB2C Helldiver”, “Upham, Peggy: Postwar Life”; (videos), National World War II Museum
“Oral History of Janet Upham” (audio and transcript) Mill Valley Public Library
“Oral history interview with William H. Upham [sound recording], 2001” (transcript online) ArchiveGrid
“Jack Upham Interview” (video) Texas A&M University Libraries
“James A. Upham Collection” (video) Library of Congress
Books (Online & In Print)
Bartol, C.A. “True childhood: a sermon delivered in West Church, June 2, 1872, after the death of Mrs. Mary Avery Upham” Cambridge: Press of J. Wilson and son, 1872. (Full view on HathiDigital Trust")
Ellis, George E. “Memoir of Charles Wentworth Upham”. Press of John Wilson and Son, 1877. (Full view on Internet Archive).
Kelley, Mrs. Mary Upham and Warren Upham. “Upham and Amherst, N.H., memories: the genealogy and history of a branch of the Upham family” 1897. (Full View on Internet Archive)
Noyes, Daniel J. “Memoir of Nathaniel Gookin Upham, LL.D.: read at the annual meeting of the N.H. Historical Society, June 14, 1871” 1871. (Full view on HathiDigital Trust)
Packard, Alpheus S. “Address on the life and character of Thomas C. Upham, late professor of mental and moral philosphy in Bowdoin College.” 1873. (Full view on HathiDigital Trust)
United States. 33d Congress, 1st session. “Obituary addresses on the occasion of the death of the Hon. William Upham, a senator of the United States, from the state of Vermont” Washington, Printed at the Congressional globe office, 1853. (Full view on HathiDigital Trust)
Upham, Albert Gookin. “Family History. Notices of the Life of John Upham, the First Inhabitant of New England who Bore that Name: Together with an Account of Such of His Descendants as Were the Ancestors of Hon. Nathaniel Upham, of Rochester, New Hampshire, with a Short Sketch of the Life of the Latter” Concord, NH. Asa McFarland, 1845. (Full View on Google Books)
Upham, Charles Wentworth. “Notice of the Death and Character of Edward C. Upham” 1838. (Full view on HathiDigital Trust)
Upham, F.K. “Genealogy and family history of a branch of the New England Upham family, settled in California: showing the ancestors of Isaac Upham of San Francisco and others”. 1841. (Full View on FamilySearch)
Upham, F.K. “Genealogy and Family History of the Uphams, of Castine, Maine, and Dixon, Illinois, with Genealogical Notes of Brooks, Kidder, Perkins, Cutler, Ware, Avery, Curtis, Little, Warren, Southworth, and Other Families” 1887. (Full view on Internet Archive)
Upham, F.K. “Upham Genealogy. The Descendants of John Upham, of Massachusetts, Who came from England in 1638, and lived in Weymouth and Malden, embracing over five hundred heads of families, extending into the tenth generation.” Albany, N.Y. Joel Munsell’s Sons, 1892. (PDF Link of Full View)
Upham, James. “A sketch of the life and character of Dea. Joshua Upham of Salem, Mass.: to which appended a sketch of his first wife, his ancestral history, and a genealogical list of his descendants”. Boston, Mass, 1885. (Full view on HathiDigital Trust)
Upham, Mary J. “Horace A.J. Upham: A Biographical Sketch, 1853 - 1919” Milwaukee, 1922. (Full view on HathiDigital Trust)
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