Guide to the Upton Family Papers, 1750-1894
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Upton Family Papers, George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine.
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Samuel Upton (1784-1842) was a merchant in Castine and Belfast, Me., and Boston, Mass. His wife, Rebecca A. Upton (1779-1859), was the author of Home Studies, a housekeeping book first published 1856. They had two children, Rebecca P. Upton Allyn (d. ca.1894) and Charles Horace Upton (1812-1877). Rebecca was the wife of Rufus B. Allyn (1793-1857), a prominent lawyer in Belfast, Me. Charles was graduated from Bowdoin in 1834 and became a journalist in Fairfax County, Virginia (1835-63), a member of Congress (1861-62), and was appointed U.S. Consul in Geneva, Switzerland (1863-77) by President Lincoln.
Correspondence (1809-94, undated.); documents, especially copies of wills (1750-1883); clippings, especially obituaries; notes; and genealogical material relating to this Castine and Belfast, Maine, family. Almost all letters are between members of the Upton, Allyn and related families.
Upton and Allyn family correspondence, including frequent correspondence between siblings, primarily Charles Horace Upton and Rebecca Upton Allyn. Also includes a small amount of business correspondence.
Arranged chronologically with miscellaneous and undated material at the end of the series.
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Chronological and Alphabetical Lists
Correspondence 1809-1819
Correspondence 1821-1828
Correspondence 1830-1840
Correspondence 1854-1861
Correspondence 1862-1865
Correspondence 1873-1877
Correspondence 1887-1894
Correspondence Miscellaneous
Materials relating to the Upton family, including genealogical material, copies of wills, notes, newspaper clippings (including obituaries) and ephemera.
Arranged alphabetically by family member.
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Documents
Genealogy
Miscellaneous Manuscripts and Ephemera
Miscellaneous Newspaper Clipping
Printed Ephemera
Newspaper Clippings: Obituaries