Harvey Clinton Upchurch, M.D.

NJGenWeb ~ Morris County, New Jersey

Source: History Morris County New Jersey, Volume II, Lewis Publishing Co., 1914

A resident of Morris county since 1896, Dr. UPCHURCH has a position hardly second to non among the able and successful physicians and surgeons of this section of the state. His home is in Succasunna, and his practice extends over a large tributary territory.

A southerner by birth and family, Harvey Clinton UPCHURCH was trained for his profession in the north, being a graduate of Columbia University Medical Department with the class of 1893. He was born at Raleigh, North Carolina, November 1, 1869, a son of William G. and Eleanor (UPCHURCH) UPCHURCH, both father and mother having the same family name. The father was a cotton manufacturer at Raleigh. The mother is now living with a daughter in Jacksonville, Florida. The death of the senior UPCHURCH occurred in October, 1895, when he was fifty-seven years of age. Both parents were natives of Raleigh, North Carolina, and the UPCHURCH family is an old and prominent one in that state. The maternal grandparents were William Clinton and Adaline (ROYSTER) UPCHURCH. The ROYSTER family has likewise for many generations been prominent in North Carolina. The maternal grandfather died at the age of ninety-nine years. The paternal grandparents were William and Clara UPCHURCH. The UPCHURCH family first came to America from the north of Ireland. To William G. UPCHURCH and wife were born seven children, three sons and four daughters, namely: Minnie, wife of Samuel B. NORRIS, of Jacksonville, Florida; Dr. Harvey C., of whom further; Delmer D., cashier in the Atlantic National Bank of Jacksonville, Florida, and having begun the banking business in Raleigh, North Carolina, in which state he married a Miss DUNN; Belle Williamson, wife of J. J. UPCHURCH, a prominent lumber merchant and manufacturer of Jacksonville, Florida, the firm being known as the Upchurch Lumber Company; Eulah GARTRELLE, wife of George POLLARD, also connected with the Upchurch Lumber Company of Florida; William GARLAND, married a Miss HAWKINS; Sadie ROWENA, wife of Harry HOLBROOK, who is with the Swift Packing Company at Roanoke, Virginia.

Dr. UPCHURCH in his native state attended first the private schools and then the Bingham Military Academy, where he graduated, and finished his course at Wake Forest College, in North Carolina in 1889. Then entering the medical department of Columbia University at New York City, he was graduated M. D. in June, 1893. Dr. UPCHURCH is also a graduate of the Columbus Hospital of New York City, and the Sloane Hospital. He has passed the medical examinations before the State Boards of New York, New Jersey, and North Carolina. After a brief practice in New York, his father’s illness caused him to return to North Carolina, where he remained for a short time and established a practice. After his father’s death, he came north and located at Succasunna in October, 1896. Dr. UPCHURCH has membership in the Morris County Medical Society, the Sloane Hospital Alumni Association, and fraternally is affiliated with the Masonic Order, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks at Dover, and the Junior Order of United American Mechanics. Religiously he was reared in the Baptist church.

In April, 1896, Dr. UPCHURCH married Anna THOMASON, of Brooklyn, daughter of George and Elizabeth THOMASON.

Transcribed by John Cresseveur (1949-2003)