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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). He attended Harvard in the class of 1821, and was a member of the Porcellian Club.〔''Catalogue of the Porcellian Club of Harvard University'' (1857), p. 34.〕 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.〔Baker, Carlos. ''Emerson Among the Eccentrics: A Group Portrait''. New York: Viking Press, 1996: 123. ISBN 0-670-86675-X〕 He also arranged for Jones Very to be institutionalized at McClean Asylum.〔Richardson, Robert D., Jr. ''Emerson: The Mind on Fire''. Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1995: 304. ISBN 0-520-08808-5〕 Senator Charles Sumner once referred to Upham as "that smooth, smiling, oily man of God".〔 Upham died on June 15, 1875, in Salem, Massachusetts. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Charles Wentworth Upham」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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