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UPHAM, THOMAS COGSWELL. 



New York City, under the late Dr. Valentine 

 Mott, attending the lectures of the College of 

 Physicians and Surgeons till 1816, when he 

 graduated M. D., and commenced practice in 

 Albany. Dissatisfied with the medical profes- 

 sion, and having his mind directed to the min- 

 istry, he resolved to relinquish the practice of 

 medicine and enter upon the study of theology, 

 in September, 1817. He was admitted to dea- 

 con's orders in October, 1818, by Bishop Ho- 

 bart, and ordained priest by that prelate in 1820. 

 He was minister at Lansingburg for two 

 years ; was Eector of St. Luke's, New York 

 City, from 1820 to 1828, and officiated as as- 

 sisiant minister of Trinity Church, New York, 

 from 1821 to 1825. From 1828 to 1831 he 

 was Eector of St. Thomas's Church, New 

 York, and of Trinity Church, Pittsburg, Pa., 

 from October, 1832, to January, 1850. He 

 was elected Bishop of Indiana in June, 1849, 

 and consecrated to that office in December of 

 the same year. He entered upon the duties 

 of the Episcopate with great zeal and energy, 

 and continued unweariedly in the discharge 

 of them, though suffering from ill health, till 

 1865, when he was laid aside from active la- 

 bors by the painful and protracted disease of 

 which he died. He was eminent as a scholar, 

 clear and eloquent as a preacher, genial and 

 courteous, but dignified in his manners, and 

 sincerely desirous of accomplishing the high- 

 est measure of usefulness. He received the 

 honorary degree of D. D. from Columbia 

 College in 1831, and that of LL. D. from 

 the Western University of Pennsylvania in 

 1856. Though an admirable writer, Bishop 

 Upfold published but little. His charges to 

 his diocese, his occasional sermons, addresses, 

 and pastoral letters, are somewhat numerous ; 

 but, aside from them, he had only published: 

 " The Last Hundred Years ; " a lecture with 

 notes, etc., delivered before the Literary Socie- 

 ties of the Western University of Pennsylva- 

 nia in 1845, and a "Manual of Devotions for 

 Domestic and Private Use," 12mo, 1863. 



UPHAM, Eev. THOMAS COGSWELL, D.D., 

 LL.D., an American clergyman, metaphysi- 

 cian, professor, and author, born in Deerfield, 

 N. H., January 30, 1799 ; died in New York 

 City, April 2, 1872. He graduated with high 

 honors from Dartmouth College in 1818, and 

 immediately entered And over Theological 

 Seminary, whence he graduated in 1821 with 

 such a reputation for scholarship that he was 

 immediately retained as assistant Professor of 

 Sacred Literature and Instructor in Hebrew. 

 Two years later he was settled as colleague pas- 

 tor of the Congregational Church at Eochester, 

 N. H. His sermons were much admired, but 

 his timidity, with the excitement and exhaus- 

 tion which followed his public efforts, led him 

 to relinquish the pastoral office. In Septem- 

 ber, 1824, he was appointed Professor of Men- 

 tal and Moral Philosophy, and Lecturer on Bib- 

 lical Criticism, in Bowdoin College, Brunswick, 

 Me., and filled the position with great accept- 



ance till July, 1867, when he resigned, but was 

 immediately appointed Professor Emeritus. 

 Soon after commencing his labors as professor 

 at Bowdoin, Prof. Upham perceived the neces- 

 sity of more satisfactory text-books in mental 

 science, and commenced their preparation. 

 The result of his studies, continued through a 

 number of years, was the publication in 1831 

 of his " Elements of Mental Philosophy, em- 

 bracing the two departments of the Intellect 

 and the Sensibilities," 2 vols. ; and, in 1834, 

 he added a third volume, with the title of " A 

 Philosophical and Practical Treatise on the 

 Will." These works have passed through 

 many editions, and have been almost univer- 

 sally approved, especially after a subsequent 

 revision by the author, both in Europe and 

 America, as presenting in elementary form 

 the most satisfactory statement of the set- 

 tled principles of mental philosophy. They 

 have been translated into Armenian by Eev. 

 Cyrus Hamlin, D. D., and are used as 'text- 

 books in all the Protestant Armenian schools 

 and colleges in Turkey. An abridgment for 

 high-schools was published in 1848. In 1840 

 he added a further contribution to mental sci- 

 ence in his little essay, " Outlines of Imperfect 

 and Disordered Mental Action." Partly by 

 natural temperament, and partly by the nature 

 of his philosophical studies, Prof. Upham be- 

 gan about 1845 or 1846 to adopt the views of 

 the Quietistic School in religion. His inclina- 

 tion in this direction was promoted by the 

 careful study of the writings of Tauler, Ger- 

 son, Catharine Adorna, Fenelon, Madame de 

 la Mothe Guyon, and other mystics of the 

 fourteenth, fifteenth, and' sixteenth centuries. 

 In 1847 appeared his "Life and Eeligious 

 Opinions and Experience of Madame de la 

 Mothe Guyon, together with some Account of 

 the Personal History and Eeligious Opinions 

 of Fenelon, Archbishop of Cambrai;" in 1848 

 his " Principles of the Interior or Hidden Life ; " 

 this was followed by the " Life of Faith," 

 1848; "A Treatise on Divine Union," 1851 ; 

 " Eeligious Maxims, having a Connection with 

 the Doctrines and Practice of Holiness," 1853; 

 " Life of Madame Catharine Adorna," 1856 ; 

 "A Method of Prayer: an Analysis of the 

 Work so entitled, by Madame de la Mothe 

 Guyon," 1859. He was also a frequent con- 

 tributor to a magazine entitled Guide to Holi- 

 ness, published in New York. The object of 

 these works, as formulated by Prof. Upham 

 himself, was "to show that man, on acknowl- 

 edged and obvious principles of philosophy 

 and religion, can gradually but surely rise 

 above the propensities and sins of a perverted 

 selfhood, and not only be brought into har- 

 mony with himself in his own interior and 

 subjective nature, but into relations of perfect 

 peace and union with God himself, and with 

 all that is right and good in the universe." 

 Prof. Upham visited Europe, the Holy Land, 

 and Egypt, in 1852. Aside from the works al- 

 ready named, he had published a " Transla- 



