Jonathan Taylor Updegraff (May 13, 1822 – November 30, 1882) was an American physician,

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and politician who served as a

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from

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from 1879 to 1882.

Biography

Born near

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, a descendant of the German and Dutch Op den Graeff family, Jonathan was the son of David Benjamin Updegraff, a

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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 Herman op den Graeff ( Aldekerk, 26 November 1585 - Krefeld, 27 December 1642) was a Mennonite community leader from Krefeld. Origin Herman Op den Graeff was the first historically proven member of the Op den Graeff family. He was born on 26 N ...

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leader of

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, and his grandson

Abraham op den Graeff Abraham Isacks op den Graeff (c. 1646 – c. 1731) was an original founder of Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Germantown, Pennsylvania, as well as a civic leader, award-winning weaver, and signer of the 1688 Germantown Quaker Petition Agai ...

, one of the founders of

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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

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and

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. Although he practiced his profession, he devoted a large share of his time to agricultural pursuits. He served as a surgeon in the

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during the

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. He served in the State senate in 1872 and 1873, and as a

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for

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in 1872. He served as delegate to the Republican State convention in 1873 and to the

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. Updegraff was elected as a

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to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses and served from March 4, 1879, until his death in

, November 30, 1882. More than 2000 people viewed his corpse at the Friends Meetinghouse. He served as chairman of the Committee on Education and Labor (Forty-seventh Congress). Updegraff had been reelected to the Forty-eighth Congress prior to his death, and his position was filled by

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. He was initially interred in Updegraff Cemetery, near

but was later reinterred in Short Creek Cemetery, west of Mount Pleasant, in 1926. The house built by Updegraff in 1856 remains in Mount Pleasant.

Coat of arms

There is a reference about the Op den Graeff glass paintings of

with a description of Herman op den Graeffs possible, but not proven coat of arms was found in the estate of W. Niepoth (op den Graeff folder) in the archives of the city of Krefeld, who noted a letter dated November 17, 1935 from Richard Wolfferts to Dr Risler: ''Saw the Coat of Arms glass pane in the old museum: 'Herman op den Graeff und Grietgen syn housfrau' or the like. Coat of Arms - In the sign a silver swan in blue. Helmet decoration (I think): Swan growing''.History of the Op Den Graef/Updegraff Family, p 22; by June Shaull Lutz, 1988 (Original at University of Wisconsin - Madison)

References

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Coat of arms

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