Manuscript Diaries of William Henry Upton, for the years 1872, 1874, 1876, 1877

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Four volumes, small quarto, 756 pages plus blanks, and several pages of accounts, bound in either original ¼ leather and marbled boards, or ¼ leather and cloth, entries written in a neat legible hand in either pencil or ink. Four diaries kept by Upton as a young man, the first dates from when he was an 18 year old in Portland, Oregon, to 1877 when he graduated from Yale. Upton's diaries contain a frank account of his activities, attending school, preparing for college, and descriptions of life in Portland and later college life at Yale, and his interior life, his religious faith, which was often in conflict with other aspects of his personality, his literary efforts - poetry writing, and constant self-examination - Upton concludes that he suffers from Depression or "hypochondria" as it was then sometimes called. He is by turns self-confident, jealous, and insecure, he was also equipped with a powerful and obsessive attraction for members of the opposite sex, Upton is extremely frank and revealing about his desires and his actions upon them for a person writing at this time. Upton also reveals himself as the perpetrator of an infamous episode in 19th century Yale history - the break in, on the night of September 29, 1876, of Skull and Bones. Upton along with two of his associates were the self-styled "Order of the File and Claw," which accomplished this feat. Upton also reveals himself to be the author of a pamphlet describing the event which appeared anonymously later that year, entitled: The Fall of Skull and Bones. Compiled from the Minutes of the 38th Regular Meeting of the Order of the File and Claw." William Henry Upton was the son of William W. Upton (1817-1896) jurist and public servant. William Henry Upton was born in California July 19, 1854, he graduated from Yale in 1877, worked for a time after his graduation as a clerk in the Navy Department in Washington, practiced law with his brother Charles Backus Upton, and served as a member of the territorial legislature of Washington and for two terms as superior judge of the state of Washington. William W. Upton, was born in Victor, Ontario County, New York, July 11, 1817. His father, James Upton, a substantial farmer and a man of considerable prominence in the county, was fifth in descent from one John Upton, who settled in Massachusetts in 1637. Judge Upton's mother Olive Broughton was of Connecticut descent. Upton received the scanty educational advantages which Western New York then afforded, including a course at Lima Academy, he managed to acquire a knowledge of Latin, Mathematics as well as French. After a preliminary settlement in Michigan in 1838 he taught school, worked as a surveyor, studied law in his native state and was admitted to the bar. In 1840 he married, and began the practice of his profession at Victor, Michigan. He was supervisor of Victor during 1840-1845, surveyor of Clinton County during 1841-1845, county treasurer 1845-1847 and a member of the legislature which made Lansing the state capitol. He was appointed district attorney for Ingham County in 1848 and was elected to the same office in 1849 and 1851. He had removed to DeWitt in 1845 and later to Lansing, in which city he built the first house that was not made of logs in 1847. In March 1852, he resigned his office, and with his wife and three children crossed the plains to California. There he practiced his profession first at Weaverville, and from 1855 at Sacramento. He was a member of the legislature in 1856 and prosecuting attorney of Sacramento County during 1861-1864. His wife and several of his children died he married in 1860 his second wife, Marietta Bryan. He removed to Portland, Oregon in the spring of 1865 and assumed a place in the front rank of the Oregon bar. He was elected to the legislature in 1866, and was appointed a justice of the Supreme Court for the fifth circuit in 1867 and was elected.…

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Manuscript Diaries of William Henry Upton, for the years 1872, 1874, 1876, 1877
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Upton, William Henry
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