Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 1791
Amos Upham opened his store in the 1820s on the corner of Columbia Road (then still named Boston Street and Dudley Street. In the mid-19th century the company was renamed for Amos’ son James H. Upham. Today’s was published in 1895 in Picturesque Roxbury, Jamaica Plain, West Roxbury, Dorchester and Vicinity.
The following comments come from a history of the Freemasons:
James H. Upham was born in the town of Dorchester, Massachusetts, September 25, 1820. His education was obtained principally at the town school (now (1892) the Everett school) of Dorchester, until at the age of fourteen his father, Amos Upham, for business reasons, took him from school and placed him in his own grocery store at Upham’s Corner, where for more than half a century his face has been as familiar as the old sign, behind which the business of father and son was continued. As a citizen, no man has had the confidence of his fellow-citizens and more immediate neighbors to a greater extent than he. The settlement of estates, the division of property, the trusts and duties of executor and administrator have been frequently committed to him. He has also held many official positions in his native town, and to the discharge of these duties he invariably brought to play his best energies and business skill. On the 19th of June 1845, BROTHER UPHAM married Mary Bird, also of Dorchester, and a schoolmate.
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