Jonathan T. Updegraff
Jonathan Taylor Updegraff | |
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James Monroe | |
Succeeded by | Joseph D. Taylor |
Constituency | 18th district (1879–1881) 16th district (1881–1882) |
Member of the Ohio Senate from the 22nd district | |
In office January 1, 1872 – January 4, 1874 | |
Preceded by | Jared Dunbar |
Succeeded by | J. K. Rukenbrod |
Personal details | |
Born | University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia | May 13, 1822
Jonathan Taylor Updegraff (May 13, 1822 – November 30, 1882) was an American physician, abolitionist and politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1879 to 1882.
Biography
Born near
Jonathan attended private schools and
Although he practiced his profession, he devoted a large share of his time to agricultural pursuits. He served as a surgeon in the
Updegraff was elected as a Republican to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses and served from March 4, 1879, until his death in Mount Pleasant, Ohio, November 30, 1882. More than 2000 people viewed his corpse at the Friends Meetinghouse.[4] He served as chairman of the Committee on Education and Labor (Forty-seventh Congress). Updegraff had been reelected to the Forty-eighth Congress prior to his death, and his position was filled by Joseph D. Taylor.
He was initially interred in Updegraff Cemetery, near Mount Pleasant, Ohio but was later reinterred in Short Creek Cemetery, west of Mount Pleasant, in 1926.
The house built by Updegraff in 1856 remains in Mount Pleasant.[5]
In public station, whether in State or national affairs, he was respected and honored; in private life, beloved by a large and influential circle of friends. He was simple in habits and tastes, strong in his friendships, tender and devoted in his family relations, generous and confiding in his nature, firm and unyielding in his convictions of duty. He hated shams and despised pretensions, and his simple nature esteemed candor and sincerity above everything else. He regarded any labor or sacrifice for principle a religious duty, and he would go out of his way to help a friend.
— William McKinley, February 6, 1883[6]
Coat of arms
There is a reference about the Op den Graeff glass paintings of Krefeld with a description of Herman op den Graeffs possible, but not proven coat of arms was found in the estate of W. Niepoth (op den Graeff folder) in the archives of the city of Krefeld, who noted a letter dated November 17, 1935 from Richard Wolfferts to Dr Risler: Saw the Coat of Arms glass pane in the old museum: 'Herman op den Graeff und Grietgen syn housfrau' or the like. Coat of Arms - In the sign a silver swan in blue. Helmet decoration (I think): Swan growing.[7]
See also
References
- ^ Prof. William I. Hull: William Penn and the Dutch Quaker Migration to Pennsylvania (2018)
- ^ Congressional Memorials : 6
- ^ Smith 1898 : 307
- ^ Congressional Memorials : 11
- ^ Times Leader, August 1, 2011
- ^ Congressional Memorials : 17
- ^ History of the Op Den Graef/Updegraff Family, p 22; by June Shaull Lutz, 1988 (Original at University of Wisconsin - Madison)
- United States Congress. "Jonathan T. Updegraff (id: U000018)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved on 2009-05-13
- Smith, Joseph P, ed. (1898). History of the Republican Party in Ohio. Vol. I. Chicago: the Lewis Publishing Company.
- forty-seventh Congress (1883). Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of Jonathan T. Updegraff (A Representative from Ohio). Washington: Government Printing Office.
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