

UNIVERSITIES-USURY. 



arc charged with matters of discipline, finance, and 

 missionary effort. 'I'll.- General Convention was char- 

 tered in Is,;,,. The prc.M m organization dates from 



The whole number of ministers is 710. 



Tin iv are '.'L't'i parishes. comprising :I|H)UI 4<UHKl I'aiui- 



The chureh-uembennip is upward* of 37,000. 



There is a Bmidajr-wbool uembenhip of nearly ."J;!.<MKI. 



The estimated value o! church properly is $7.5ui,lXK). 

 The permanent lutiils of the general convention 

 pate nearly $I?IK),IKM>. Ihuing the last thirty years 

 particular attention has Urn given to the e.-tablish- 

 inent and development of eoOCttiona] institutions. 

 15c>ides such seminaries as Clinton Liberal Institute, 

 in New York ; Goddard Seminary, in Vermont ; 

 Wcsibrook Seminary, in Maine, and l>ean Aeademy, 

 in HaMMbflMtta, all well endowed, there arc four 

 s and three theological schools. The colleges 

 arc TulVs College. St. Laurence I niversity, Lombard 

 I nivcrsity, and Buchtcl College. With each of the 

 three first-named colleges a theological school is eon 

 nected. The aggregate of funds permanently devoted 

 to educational purposes is not less than $;i,000,00<). 

 I'pwards of 1(HI teachers are employed, and instruc- 

 tion is given to nearly 1400 pupils annually. (E. II. c.) 



DNIVEKSITIES. See COI.I.K.IF.S. 



ITIIAM, CIIAIU.KS WK.NTUOHTII (1802-187".), 

 author, was born at St. .lohn's. N. 15., May 1. I MIL' His 

 father, Joshua Upham (1741-lsus). was a judge in Mas- 

 sachusetts, but taking the Tory side in the Revolution, 

 removed to New Brunswick, where he became member 

 of the governor's council. Charles returned to Bos- 

 ton in childhood and graduated at Harvard in ]S2I. 

 Three years later he was. ordained as a pastor in Salem, 

 but alter twenty years' service he was obliged to pive 

 up preaching on account of loss of his voice. Mean- 

 time he had already served in the Ijecislaturc, and was 

 afterwards a member of the Slate Senate, and its presi- 

 dent in ls.'i7-5S. He was also a member of Congress 

 ~>4, and took part in the original organization of 

 the Republican party. He died at Salem, June 14. 

 1875. He had always beon busy in writing for the 

 press; his Isfctureaon Witchcraft (1*21) was afterwards 

 expanded into two volumes (I*o7); he edited the 

 ' . quarterly. and the ('/iristiti.i 



. . . 



ter, weekly; and prepared several biographi' 



: Sparks' Aiiii-rifiin lii'irrrnp/nf ; 

 l".il,',<l ; i (isr.'i). and com- 

 J)letcd the Lift of lY/m/rAv /''<'.-. T// 1.7 (' 

 72), which had been left unfinished by 0. I'ickering. 

 He also prepared a /,<' "f \\~nsliiniitnn. made from 

 the generals letters, liut. withheld it out of 

 irks' edition Ot the \\'ritiys of Wafliin;/' 

 surreptitious edition, however, appeared i;i England in 



I TIIAM Wiu.l \M, educator and author, 



was born at Rochester. N. 11., Sept. Hi. I,sl7. He 

 graduated at Bowdoin College ill |s.:;7. studied law and 

 was admitted to the bar in Isll. He afterwards de- 

 voted himself to teaching in New York city. where lie 

 was professor of mental and moral philosophy in Rut- 

 gers Female College, 1807-7(1. Being greatly influ- 

 enced by the views of 1'rof. Ta\ler Lewis, he has pub- 

 lished not only a defence of these views, but i Iso other 

 religious works, containing peculiar and in: 

 illations. They include Thr HV..r .!/, (I860): '/'/.' 

 Slur if Our Ijonl, or Cln-isl.l, ''nil ]\'in-l</n 



(|s7:;>: Tln.nifliix < tin- /////, C 



ri'llA.M. tii'.M \s COOBWCLL (1799-1872), author. 

 waa born at l>cerfi<ld, N. 11., Jan. 30, 17'.".t. Ili- 

 grandfalher, Timothy, had been the pastor of t i 

 gregationa! eliureh there for many years, his father, 

 Nathaniel, had been a member of Congress for three 

 terms, and his uncle. Timothy, waan oil'nvr in the war 

 of 1812. Thomas graduated at. Iartmouih College in 

 1818 and at Andovcr in IsJI. Here he became tutor 

 (.1 Hebrew, but in l*j:i he was made ::s- 



at Rochester, N. II. In 182;') he wsu called to 



College, and there held the chair of phil 

 for forty two years. I hiring this time he pivpa 

 id ./ M'ntnl Philotopihy, in tlnve vo 

 treating respectively of the intcile.-t. sensibilities, and 

 will. An abridged edition also had a larte circulation 

 as a te\l ! k in school.... Hi- al-o pul.li-hed /.ifeotnl 



o/iiiiions of Madeant Gin/mi (Isi7i I-'niih 



IH rili i- I'n inn (l>."il) ; / 

 EI/I/II!, iiinl I'lli'stiiir (I S.">7). II 



soiship in lNd7, and look up his residence at Kenne- 

 bunkport, Me. lie died at New York city, April 2, 

 1871 



UPTON, EMORY (1830-1SS1), gener.d. was Iwrn 

 Aug. :'.,, l^o'.i. at Ratavia, N. V. llewa- b:o'.ii.dit up 

 on a farm, and spent the winter of lS.YI-.'>. r > at (Iber- 

 Jin College. Ohio, but in IBM entered the 1'. S. Mil- 

 itary Academy at West Point. He graduated on the 

 outbreak of the war in isi'il, and was assigned HS 2d 

 lieutenant to the 5th regiment of artillery. On May 

 27 he was selected as aide totien. T\ler, and assuc-h was 

 present at the first battle of Rull Run, where he was 

 wounded. On his recovery he \v.is a-igned to thu 

 cnmmand of a battery in the I". S. artillery in Frank- 

 lin's division, and was commended by thai general 

 and again by (Jen. Sloeiim (or skill and bravery in the 

 Seven-day* fight At the battles ofCranipton (Jap 

 and Antietam, Upton was in command of an artillery 

 brigade of 2f> guns which he handled with imukcd 

 cilicieiiey. In October. l>t'.2. hewn appointed colonel of 

 the 121st N. Y. Volunteers, and so disliiiL'uishcd him- 

 self at Salem Heights (May 3. 1803) that, at <Jtty>- 

 burg, he was intrusted with the command of a bri- 

 gade. Holding the same position he took part in thn 

 assault on the Confederate intreiielinients at I' 

 han nock Station (Nov. 7, 1SG3). lie participated in 

 (!en. Grant's Wilderness campaign in May, 1864, and 

 distinguished himself particularly in the indecisive 

 battle at Spottsylvania Court-House. Promoted brig- 

 adier-general of volunteers, in May, ISM, lie t k 

 part in the defence of Washington in July, as veil as 

 in Sheridan's campaign against Early in the Shcnan- 

 doali Valley, again distinguishing himr-cll'at the battle 

 of Winchester (Oct. '.i. 1 ^>4), where he was pev.n !y 

 wounded. Ho was then promoted major -general of 

 volunteers, and, on his recovery. ned to the 



command of the fourth division of the cavalry corps 

 under Gen. J. H. Wilson and participated in that 

 general's operations in Al ihamn and Georgia, from 

 March to Hay, iJ-r-"), taking mrt in the capture of 

 Selma and Columbua. On March 13, 18d5, he was 

 promoted brevet major-genoral U. S. A. At th. 

 of the war he w: 1 to the command of the 



of Colorado with headquarters at Ilciivir. 

 Mcvoting himself now to the study of tactics, he de- 

 vclopcd tho system used in the U. S. army under his 

 name. In 1S7.~> ho was sent out by the government as 

 iouer to investigate the military cuii- 

 ditionof the various countries in Asia and Europe, and 

 j'athereil valuable material for his authoritative woik 

 on the military policy of the I'nited States. On beini; 

 mu.-t'-ri'd out .of the : volun: in Ajiril, IM.I'. 



he resumed his rank as captain in the. r ith regimrnt of 

 artillery, but in July he was made lieutenant colonel 

 of the 25th infantry ; and in 1S7D was appointed eom- 

 immder of cadets in West Point, which Office he held 

 for five years. On his return from bis Inuign tour ill 

 l>-77. ho was assigned to duty at the artillery school of 

 practice at Fortress Monroe. lie died by his own 

 hand, March 14, lss|. at Presidio San Francisco, 

 whither he had gone in the close of Issil to assume com- 

 mand of the 4lh artillery, of which he had been ap- 

 '. colonel. His death is attributed to dcs-pond- 

 oncy cau.-ed by chronic' catarrh. His publications were 

 his Maiidanl work on la/mitry Tin-tics (l*c,7innd his 

 Annie* <f Anin "</ 1878). 1'rof. Jlichie 



ha- pnbli.vhi'd his M, amir ( 



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