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Standard History of Fulton County, Ohio
Publ. by The Lewis Publishing Company
Chicago & New York
1920
Transcribed by
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PHILEMON L. UPP.
No one has ever denied the importance of the work done by
the farmer, but recently these activities have assumed a
position never before held, not only this country, but
throughout the world. Much of the efficiency of the
present day farmer comes from the fact that the land he is
operating has been developed into a high state of
cultivation so that all of his energies can be concentrated
upon the production of the sorely-needed foodstuffs.
One of the men of the older generation of farmers who is now
living retired at Wauseon is Philemon L. Upp, owner
and developer of 150 acres of very valuable land in Clinton
township, Fulton county.
Philemon L. Upp was born in Huron county, Ohio,
in 1848, a son of Philip and Hannah Upp. The Upp
family is of Pennsylvania-Dutch extraction, and its
members have been either farmers or local merchants, and
most excellent, sturdy and honest people. After
acquiring a country school education, as many country
youths, alternating working on the farm in the summers and
going to school in the winter until he was twenty, Mr.
Upp decided to strike out for himself.
He was married to Mary E. Nesbitt, of Huron
county, in 1867, and they became the parents of the
following children: Lewis Elmer, who was born
in 1809, lives at Wauseon; Anna A., who died in 1918;
Philip Henry, who was born in 1874; Jocelyn,
who was born in 1877; William Clayton, who was
born in 1882, and Clarence Raymond, who was born in
1885. After his marriage Mr. Upp
conducted his father’s farm for three years, and then bought
eighty acres in Huron county, and remained on it for three
years. For the subsequent two years he was in a
hardware business with his brother, under the firm name of
Upp Brothers, at Plymouth, Ohio, and then was
engaged in farming in the vicinity of Plymouth for a time.
In 1880 he came to Fulton county and bought 154 acres of
land in Clinton township that he still owns. He
continued to improve and conduct this property until 1903,
when he moved to Wauseon and turned the work of farming over
to his son Philip. This farm is devoted to a
general line of crops, and is one of the good ones of the
county. In politics Mr. Upp is a
democrat. Interested in the work of the Grange, he was
a member of it until he retired from the farm, and believes
every farmer ought to join it and learn through it how to
make the most of his land. Although he has not cared
for office, Mr. Upp takes, the interest of a
public spirited man in the affairs of his community and
county, and is regarded as one of those citizens who have
made the world the better and happier for his passing
through it.
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Source: Standard
History of Fulton County, Ohio - by The Lewis Publishing
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