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UPHAM, Ebenezer P.
UPHAM, EBENEZER P. (Mayville, NY, Aug. 10, 1847--Jamestown, NY, Dec. 31, 1900). In 1846 Upham left Mayville and learned the printer's trade in the Journal office in Jamestown. In 1850 he and Francis W. PALMER, another employee, purchased the Journal. They sold it in 1858 and moved to Dubuque.
The two men purchased the Dubuque Times and published the newspaper. In 1860 Upham and Palmer purchased the State Register in Des Moines. Upham remained in Dubuque, and the partners continued publishing both newspapers. In 1862 they sold the Dubuque Times and Upham sold his interest in the State Register to his partner and returned to Jamestown. For eleven years, he was involved in mercantile interests and farming.
In 1873 Upham moved to Chicago where he was involved in the financial department of the Chicago Inter-Ocean until 1877. From then until 1885, he was an auditor in the Chicago post office. In 1887, Upham and Palmer purchased the entire stock of the Industrial World Company in Chicago. They continued this business until 1889.
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"The Descendants of John Upham," Online: http://www.mocavo.com/The-Descendants-of-John-Upham-of-Massachusetts-Who-Came-From-England-in-1635-and-Lived-in-Weymouth-and-Malden-Embracing-Over-Five-Hundred-Heads-of-Families-Extending-Into-the-Tenth-Generation/912632/394
Dubuque Daily Telegraph, December 31, 1900, p. 2