UPHAM, James, educator, born in Salem, Massachusetts, 23 January, 1815. He was graduated at Waterville college (now Colby university), Maine, in 1835, and at Newton theological seminary in 1839. He was ordained to the Baptist ministry in 1840, and called, after two brief pastorates, to a professorship in the New Hampshire literary institute. His connection with this institution continued for twenty years, during the last five of which he was its president. On withdrawing from this relation in 1866 he became one of the editors of the "Watchman and Reflector," of Boston. He is now (1889) a corresponding editor of the "Religious Herald," of Richmond, Virginia He received the degree of D. D. from Colby university in 1860.