Jonathan Taylor Updegraff
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 Mount Pleasant, Ohio, a descendant of the German and Dutch Op den Graeff family, Jonathan was the son of David Benjamin Updegraff, a Quaker minister, and grandson of Nathan Updegraff, a delegate to Ohio's first constitutional convention. He was also a direct descendant of Herman op den Graeff, mennonite leader of Krefeld, and his grandson Abraham op den Graeff, one of the founders of Germantown and in 1688 signer of the first protest against slavery in colonial America. Jonathan attended private schools and Franklin College. He studied medicine. He was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1845 and later from medical schools in Edinburgh and Paris. Although he practiced his profession, he devoted a large share of his time to agricultural purs ...
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