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unusual facts about Don A. J. Upham


Don A. J. Upham

Upham was the Democratic candidate for Governor of Wisconsin in 1851, but lost by less than one percent of the vote to Leonard J. Farwell, the Whig candidate.


Alfred Ely

Among those captured was William H. Upham the future 18th Governor of Wisconsin who was a private in the Belle City Rifles of the 2nd Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment.

Don A. Allen

Both Allens were in the U.S. Marines, the elder serving in the Haitian campaign of 1927 against the Sandino Rebellion.

Samuel C. Upham

In January 1849, Upham sailed on The Osceola to San Francisco, via Rio de Janeiro and Talcahuana, arriving in California on August 5, 1849 and participating in the California Gold Rush.

At the start of the Civil War Upham began marketing patriotic items to support the Union, and novelty items mocking the Confederacy, such as cards depicting the head of Jefferson Davis on the body of a jackass.

Samuel Curtis Upham was born in Montpelier, Vermont to Samuel Upham and Sally Hatch, a zealous Methodist farm couple.

William H. Upham

Some two years after the death of his first wife, Mary Kelly, in 1912, Upham (then 73) undertook a voyage along the Atlantic coast, that was forced by storm to harbor at Beaufort, North Carolina.

There he met and married his much younger second wife, Grace Mason, and begat two sons: William H. Upham Jr. (who was a member of Milwaukee Yacht Club until his death) and Fredrick M. Upham, who survived his older sibling.


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