Charles Wentworth Upham

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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 Salem, Massachusetts
Nationality	Canadian, American
Political party	Whig, Free Soil, Republican
Spouse(s)	Ann Susan Holmes
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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.

Biography

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).

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.^[1] He also arranged for Jones Very to be institutionalized at McClean Asylum.^[2] Senator Charles Sumner once referred to Upham as "that smooth, smiling, oily man of God".^[1]

Upham died on on June 15, 1875, in Salem, Massachusetts.

Publications

• Salem Witchcraft with an account of Salem Village and a history of opinions on Witchcraft and Kindred Subjects. Frederick Unger, New York, 1978 (Reprint), 2 vv.
• Lectures on Witchcraft Comprising a History of the Delusion in Salem in 1692 (1831) Kessinger Publishing (Reprint), 2003. ISBN 9780766180888
• A Discourse Delivered on the Sabbath After the Decease of the Hon. Timothy Pickering. Kessinger Publishing, United States, 2010 (Reprint). ISBN 9781163749272
• Eulogy on the Life and Character of Zachary Taylor. BiblioLife, LLC, USA (Reprint), 2009. ISBN 9781117401485
• Memoir of Francis Peabody, President of the Essex Institute. Pranava Books, 2008 (Reprinted on demand from 1868 edition.
• Letters on the Logos (1828) Kessinger Publishing, 2003 (Reprint). ISBN 9780766146792

References

• Ellis, George Edward: Memoir of Charles Wentworth Upham (1877).

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b} Baker, Carlos. Emerson Among the Eccentrics: A Group Portrait. New York: Viking Press, 1996: 123. ISBN 0-670-86675-X
2. ^ Richardson, Robert D., Jr. Emerson: The Mind on Fire. Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1995: 304. ISBN 0-520-08808-5

United States House of Representatives
Preceded by George T. Davis	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts's 6th congressional district March 4, 1853 – March 4, 1855	Succeeded by Timothy Davis

External links

• Charles W. Upham at InfoPlease
• Works by Charles Wentworth Upham at Project Gutenberg
• Charles Wentworth Upham at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

Persondata
Name	Upham, Charles Wentworth
Alternative names
Short description	American politician
Date of birth	May 4, 1802
Place of birth	Saint John, New Brunswick
Date of death	June 15, 1875
Place of death	Salem, Massachusetts