Dr. Jonathan Taylor Updegraff

  General Notes:

UPDEGRAFF, Jonathan Taylor, a Representative from Ohio; born near Mount Pleasant, Jefferson County, Ohio, May 13, 1822; attended private schools and Franklin College; studied medicine; was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1845 and later from medical schools in Edinburgh and Paris; practiced his profession, but devoted a large share of his time to agricultural pursuits; served as a surgeon in the Union Army during the Civil War; served in the State senate in 1872 and 1873; delegate to the Republican State convention in 1873 and to the Republican National Convention in 1876; elected as a Republican to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses and served from March 4, 1879, until his death in Mount Pleasant, Ohio, November 30, 1882; chairman, Committee on Education and Labor (Forty-seventh Congress); had been reelected to the Forty-eighth Congress; interment in Updegraff Cemetery, near Mount Pleasant, Ohio; reinterment in Short Creek Cemetery, west of Mount Pleasant, in 1926.


Jonathan, a highly respeced physician, recieved his training in Edinburgh and Paris and later serving almost three terms as a United States Congressman.

Jonathan married Phebe Underhill, daughter of Joel Underhill and Abigail Dean.

Jonathan next married Mary Elizabeth Evans, daughter of Thomas Evans and Ann Worthington, in 1856 in Jefferson, Ohio, USA. (Mary Elizabeth Evans was born on 8 Sep 1839 and died on 21 Sep 1864.)

Jonathan next married Elizabeth Ricks, daughter of Richard Lawrence Ricks and Missouri P. Winston Clarke, about 1869. (Elizabeth Ricks was born on 9 Sep 1845 and died in 1897.)