Ur of the Chaldees

UPHAM, FRANCIS WILLIAM: Layman; b. at Rochester, Stafford County, N. H., Sept. 10, 1817; d. in New York Oct. 17, 1895. He was graduated from Bowdoin ( ollege, Brunswick, Me., 1837; admitted to the bar of Massachusetts, 1844; was professor of mental and moral philosophy and lecturer on history in Rutgers Female College, New York, 1867-70. He was the author of The Debate between the Church and Science, or the Ancient Hebraic Idea

of the Six Days of Creation; with an Essay on the Literary Character of Tayler Lewis (published anonymously, Andover, 1860); The Wise Men: who they were, and how they came to Jerusalem (New York, 1869); The Star of our Lord, or Jesus Christ King of all Worlds, both of Time and Space; with Thoughts on Inspiration, and the Astronomic Doubt as to Christianity (1873); Thoughts on the Holy Gospels: how they came to be in Manner and Form as they are (1881); and First Words from God (1894).

UPHAM, THOMAS COGSWELL: Congregationalist; b. at Deerfield, N. H., Jan. 30, 1799; d. in New York Apr. 2, 1872. He was graduated from Dartmouth College (1818) and from Andover Theological Seminary (1821); taught Hebrew in Andover from 1821-23; was pastor at Rochester, N. H., for a year; professor of mental and moral philosophy in Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me., 1824-67; retired to Kennebunkport, Me., 1867, and lived without charge till his death. He was a voluminous writer, and did good service in his day, and deserves to be remembered as one of the earliest advocates of international peace by peace tribunals, an idea represented in The Manual of Peace, Embracing 1. Evils and Remedies of War, 11. Suggestions on the Law of Nations, III. Considerations of a Congress of Nations (New York, 1836; part III. was reprinted by the American Peace Society, Boston, 1840). Another useful service was in translating Jahn's Biblical Archceology (Andover, 1823). He did much in philosophy, his work on the Will (Portland, 1834) and his text-book on Mental Philosophy (1839) being noteworthy. His interest in Madame Guyon led him to write her life and to bring out a translation of her Method of Prayer. Other books were his biography of Madame Catherine Adorns (4th ed., Boston, 1856); and Letters Written from Europe; Egypt and Palestine (Brunswick, 1855).