Found under "Deaths" in the NEHGS Register, 37:336 (July, 1883): UPHAM, Sylvanus Kidder, died at Dixon, Ill., February 13, 1883, of abscess in the bowels. He was born at Castine, Me., March 11, 1811. Mr. Upham was early in business on Long Wharf, Boston; in California from 1849 to 1852; later, and for many years, in lumber business at Dixon, retiring from business in 1876. His wife, Maryanne Brooks (descendant in seventh generation from William Brooks, who came to Scituate probably in the ship "Blessing," 1635), d. at Dixon, Dec. 30, 1870; b. at Castine, Jan. 11, 1819. He (as well as his wife) was of purely New England descent, his ancestors being among the earliest, some of them as follows: Deacon John Upham, who came from England in 1635 (see REG. xxv. 15), and was one of the founders of Weymouth and Malden (tombstone still standing in Malden); John Cutler, of Sprowston, co. Norfolk, England, who came to Hingham in 1637; Samuel Richardson, living at Woburn in 1670; Davis family, of same place and time; James Kidder, who came from East Grinsted, co. Sussex, England, and settled at Cambridge before 1650; Deacon Francis Moore, living at Cambridge, 1649; Dr. William Avery, living at Dedham 1650 (tombstone in King's Chapel ground, Boston); Ephraim Little, living at Marshfield 1686; and Nathaniel Atkins, of Truro, 1739, his family of earlier date. Sylvanus Kidder Upham left children: Margaret Barker, widow of Charles H. Wright, of Chicago; Frank Kidder, captain 1st United States Cavalry; and Charles Clifton, civil engineer in employ of Mexican Central Railway. Chris