UPHAM, HUGH MACMILLAN (1875-1963)

UPHAM, HUGH MACMILLAN, United Church minister, Doaktown, 1934-38; b. Halifax, 19 Sep 1875, s/o Samuel Upham and Eleanor Kennedy; m. 1907, Emma Kemp, RN, of Halifax; d. Truro, N.S., 5 Nov 1963.

Hugh M. Upham was educated at Halifax Academy and Dalhousie University (BA 1903) and trained for the ministry at the Presbyterian College. Ordained in 1906, he had Presbyterian charges at Newport and Shubenacadie, N.S. Following church union he had two United Church pastorates in Nova Scotia. He was inducted into the Doaktown charge in 1934. During his tenure a church hall was erected at Doaktown, the opening of which he celebrated by writing a humorous verse about the men who helped build it. He stayed at Doaktown until 1938, when he retired. Throughout his ministry he displayed a special interest in Christian education.

Upham spent most of the last twenty-five years of his life at Glenholme, Colchester Co., N.S. When he died in 1963, at age eighty-eight, his survivors were four sons and three daughters, his wife, Emma Kemp, having predeceased him by several months.