Later Life
In 1894 Francis Robbins Upton left Edison‘s business which he had managed up to his departure. Upton returned after four years. He and Thomas started working on Ore milling sand that Upton sold and made profitable amounts of money by selling it to cement manufactures. Upton eventually left the business in 1911 but still continued to sell bricks and cement. Francis Robbins Upton died ten years later in Orange, New Jersey, on March 10, 1921.
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