Early Life
Francis Upton was the son of Elijah Wood Upton and Lucy Elizabeth Winchester. Elijah was well educated and after, he did European travel. Later he was forced to take over his fathers glue business due to his fathers illness. Francis was 16 by this time and studying at Phillips Academy in Andover, after he received a Bachelor’s of Science degree in 1877 at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, ME. There he met and married his wife, Elizabeth F. Perry.
Francis Upton also attended Berlin University and Princeton University. Francis was the first ever to officially receive his degree from Princeton University. Upton was then hired by Thomas Edison, who Upton later became a great associate with.
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