Upton family

"The Quier Kyds" in their play based on Lucretia Hale's Peterkin Papers, June 1899. Left to right: Meril Bevin, Avis Danforth as Mrs. Peterkin, Eleanor Upton as Agamennon, Ernest Bevan as Mr. Peterkin, and Margaret Upton as Solomon.

Cornelia A. (Babcock) Upton was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1854 and graduated from Providence, Rhode Island High School in 1874. In 1882 she married Winslow Upton, professor of astronomy at Brown University. The couple had two daughters, Eleanor and Margaret (see below). Upton's "chief interest" was the Auxiliary Board of Missions of the Episcopal Church. Following the death of her husband in 1931, she lived with her daughter Eleanor in New Haven, Connecticut; she died there in 1941.

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