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Subject: [GM-L] UPHAM, George Canton, MA b. 1815 to PA Town History biography
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 12:58:48 EST


GEORGE UPHAM, farmer, Cambridgeboro, was born in Canton, Mass., October 25,
1815, son of Nathan and Susannah (Tilden) Upham, the former a native of
England, the latter, of Scotland, and who located in LeBœuf Township, Erie
County, in 1817. They were parents of nine children: Naomi, Freelove,
Sally, Susan, Clarissa, Nathan, Eliza, George and Roxa. Our subject
purchased his farm in Cambridge Township in 1841; it comprises seventy-one
acres of land, fifty-five of which he has cleared himself, and which he
settled on in 1845. He was married September 18, 1845, to Lydia, daughter of
Robert and Mercy (Atwell) Dodge, natives of Vermont. By this union were
seven children, viz.: Mary, deceased; Roxa C., wife of Sylvester Culbertson,
Erie County; George C., married to Tempie Smith, reside in Nebraska; John N.,
married to Emma R. Racop, Venango Township, this county; Effie O., wife of A.
B. Skelton, Nebraska; Amos T., also in Nebraska; and Hattie A., who lives at
home with her parents. In politics Mr. Upham is a Democrat.

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