Nathaniel Upham

Upham descended from an early American family. The Uphams first came to the United States in 1635, when John Upham settled in Weymouth, Massachusetts. Nathaniel was one of two sons born six generations later to Rev. Timothy Upham, the pastor of the Congregationalist church in Deerfield, New Hampshire. His younger brother, Timothy, was a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army during the War of 1812.^[4]

Upham's eldest son was Thomas Cogswell Upham, a dominant figure in American academic psychology during the 19th century, a writer of devotional works, and a biographer of Madame Guyon. He second-eldest son was Nathaniel Gookin Upham, an Associate Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court and fellow state legislator. His daughter Mary married twice, first to David Barker Jr., and after she was widowed, she became the second wife of Eben Coe. With Coe she had two children including Thomas Upham Coe, a prominent doctor and lumber baron in Bangor, Maine.^[5][6][7][8] She was also a step-mother to Henry Willard Coe, Sr., a pioneer of California and the first to export hops from the area.^[9][10] His son is the namesake of the largest state park in Northern California: Henry W. Coe State Park.^[11][12][5]

• Noyes, Daniel J. (1871). Memoir of Nathaniel Gookin Upham.
• United States Congress. "Nathaniel Upham (id: U000024)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.