Hon. Charles Wentworth UPHAM was the son of Major Joshua UPHAM, a loyal soldier of the revolution and a Judge of the Supreme Court of New Brunswick. He was born May 4, 1802 at Hammond (Kings Co.) and was only six years of age when his father died. Spencer Percival, Chancellor of the Exchequer, took an interest in the boy, on account of his warm friendship for his father and sent him to the St. John Grammar School in 1810 to be educated under the care of Rev. VIETS. But his benefactor died and thence commenced a career of many vissitudes. He entered a drug store and with accustomed dilligence read through a large materia medica prepatory to the study of medicine. Then he made arrangements to enter the British naval service as midshipman under Capt. BLYTHE of the brig "Boxer". But the "Boxer" was engaged in action and captured and the captain slain. Following this, the doctor with whom he had been studying died and he was turned upon his own resources. For a year or two more he worked upon a farm in the Annapolis Valley and in 1816 went to Boston and entered the counting house of a relative. But business was distasteful and after a year's preparation he entered Harvard in 1817. During his course he added to his list of callings by teaching school during his vacations. At graduation in 1821 he entered Cambridge Theological School and completed his course there in 1824. He occupied the pastorate of the First Unitarian Church at Salem, Mass. for twenty years, but by another turn of forthune's wheel he was forced to take up a new vocation. On account of throat troubles he had to resign his charge in 1844 and for a year he edited the 'Christian Register'. During another year he was employed by the Massachusetts Board of Education in placing the cause of education before the people. In 1852 he was elected Mayor of Salem and for eleven years, from 1859 to 1860, he devoted his attention to politics. He sat in the Massachusetts House of Representatives and also in the Senate during several sessions and was for two years a Congressman during the exciting period just previous to the civil war. In 1860 he abandoned politics and devoted the remainder of his days to literary and historical pursuits. He was one of the founders of the Essex Institute. In 1826 he married a sister of Oliver Wendell HOLMES and had 15 children, 13 of whom died. His death occurred in 1875. (see original)