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	Abel P. Upshur
		Abel P. Upshur (DD-193) was laid down on 20 August 1918 at Newport News, Va., by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry-dock Co.; launched on 14 February 1920; sponsored by Mrs.
		Abel P. Upshur assumed duties at the Washington Navy Yard in March 1928 as a training ship for Naval Reserave personnel from the District of Columbia and continued this routine until 5 November 1930, when the ship was transferred to the Treasury Department.
		Abel P. Upshur was returned to Navy custody on 21 May 1934 but was laid up at Philadelphia until 4 December 1939, when she was again placed in commission and assigned to the Atlantic Squadron.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/a1/abel_p_upshur.htm (636 words)

	Abel P. Upshur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Abel Parker Upshur (June 17, 1790–February 28, 1844) was an American statesman.
		Upshur's political reach became national when John Tyler became President of the United States in 1841 and selected him to become the 13th United States Secretary of the Navy in October of that year.
		In July 1843, President Tyler appointed Upshur United States Secretary of State.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Abel_P._Upshur (378 words)

	Upshur County, Texas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The county is named for Abel P. Upshur who was the U.S. Secretary of State.
		Upshur County is a county located in the state of Texas.
		Upshur County in Handbook of Texas Online at the University of Texas
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Upshur_County,_Texas (389 words)

	Upshur County
		For Abel Parker Upshur, an eminent jurist and statesman.
		Abel Parker Upshur was born on June 17, 1790 in Northampton County, Virginia.
		Upshur County was created by an act of the Virginia General Assembly on March 26, 1851 from parts of Barbour, Lewis and Randolph counties.
	web.mountain.net /warner/upshur.html (1538 words)

	American President
		Abel Parker Upshur was born in 1790 in the Chesapeake Bay area of Virginia.
		Upshur then became a member of Richmond’s city council, served in the Virginia state legislature from 1825 to 1827, and was elected judge of the General Court of Virginia in 1826.
		Upshur left his judgeship in 1841 when President John Tyler tapped him to become secretary of the Navy.
	www.americanpresident.org /history/johntyler/cabinet/statesecretary/AbelPUpshur/h_index.shtml (262 words)

	DD-193 DANFS
		Abel P. Upshur (DD-193) was launched 14 February 1920 by Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co Newport News, Va.; sponsored by Mrs.
		Abel P. Upshur was returned to the Navy 21 May 1934.
		George J. Benson great-grandniece of Secretary Upshur; commissioned 23 November l920, Lieutenant V. Godfrey in command; and reported to destroyer division 37, Atlantic Fleet.
	www.hazegray.org /danfs/destroy/dd193txt.htm (231 words)

	List of Texas county name etymologies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Upshur County, Texas: Upshur is named for Abel Parker Upshur, the fifteenth secretary of state of the United States.
		Tyler County, Texas: Tyler is named for John Tyler, the tenth president of the United States.
		Upton County, Texas: Upton is named for and his brother, two lieutenant colonels in the Confederate army.
	www.sevenhills.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/List_of_Texas_county_name_etymologies (4754 words)

	Gilmer, Texas, and Gilmer Discount Hotel Reservations.
		Thomas W. Gilmer was an unfortunate sailor, and Abel P. Upshur was the U.S. Secretary of State that fatal day in February, 1844.
		Upshur is one of the few counties in Texas to have both County and Seat named after men who were blown-up in the test firing of a cannon.
		Upshur County Library: Just west of the Courthouse Square, the Upshur County Library has an excellent genealogy department as well as a Civil War reference section.
	www.texasescapes.com /TOWNS/Gilmer/gilmer.htm (529 words)

	USS_Princeton_(1843)
		An accident onboard her in 1844 killed Secretary of State Abel P. Upshur, Secretary of the Navy Thomas Gilmer and others.
		The gun burst, killing Secretary Upshur; Secretary Gilmer; Captain Beverly Kennon, Chief of the Bureau of Construction, Equipment and Repairs; Virgil Maxey of Maryland, Charge d'Affaires to Belgium, 1837–42; David Gardiner of New York, the father of Julia Gardiner who later married President Tyler; and a servant of the President.
		Princeton was laid down 20 October 1842 at the Philadelphia Navy Yard under the supervision of Captain Robert F. Stockton; launched 5 September 1843; and ordered commissioned 9 September 1843, Capt. Robert F. Stockton in command.
	www.freecaviar.com /search.php?title=USS_Princeton_(1843) (548 words)

	Re: Abel P. Upshur, Secretary of the Navy, and distinguished statesman and jurist of Virginia counters...
		In Reply to: Abel P. Upshur, Secretary of the Navy, and distinguished statesman and jurist of Virginia counters...
		Re: Abel P. Upshur, Secretary of the Navy, and distinguished statesman and jurist of Virginia counters...
		: Abel Parker Upshur, Secretary of the Navy,
	www.supremelaw.org /wwwboard/messages/1969.html (228 words)

	Towns
		The same explosion also killed United States secretary of state Abel P. Upshur.
		Gilmer, the county seat of Upshur County, is on U.S. Highway 271 and State highways 155 and 154 thirty-five miles northeast of Tyler and twenty-two northwest of Longview in the central part of the county.
		Glenwood, at the junction of State Highway 300 and Farm Road 726, eight miles southeast of Gilmer in southeastern Upshur County, was established as a plantation before the organization of the county in 1846.
	txgenes.com /TxUpshur/Towns.html (12341 words)

	Tyler, John. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Abel P. Upshur, Webster& successor, was killed when a gun on the U.S.S. Princeton blew up, and John C. Calhoun continued Upshur’s negotiations for a treaty with Texas.
		Tyler then supported a plan for a joint resolution to annex Texas and had the satisfaction of seeing it accepted by Texas just before he left office in 1845.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ty/Tyler-Jo.html (553 words)

	Maryland ArtSource - Collections - Abel Parker Upshur
		Signatures/Inscriptions/Labels: Inscription on verso: "Abel P. Upshur / aged 52 / painted by / Miss Sarah M. Peale / in the summer of / 1842".
		Description: Bust portrait shows Abel Parker Upshur: man with thin gray hair, with very precise delineation of lines in face.
		Background varies from beige to brown, and painting is rectangular with oval mat.
	www.marylandartsource.org /artwork/detail_000000999.html (100 words)

	Tour 2
		Abel Upshur was Secretaryof the Navy 1841-43) and then succeeded Daniel Webster as Secretary of State.
		The twin formal porches that shelter both entrances and the irregular additions were added long after the house was built about 1784 by Littleton Upshur, father of Abel P. Upshur (1791.1844), who lived here for many years.
		The brick part of Warwick was built in 1672 by Arthur Upshur as his seat on 2,000 acres granted him by 'Pyony, King of the Machipungoe' for 'four good coats.' Rachel, Upshur's wife, was bitten by a rabid fox near the well and developed hydrophobia.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~HYPER/VAGuide/tour02.html (7893 words)

	Abel Parker Upshur
		UPSHUR, Abel Parker, statesman, born in Northampton county, Virginia, 17 June, 1790; died near Washington, D. C., 28 February, 1844.
		Early in 1844 he was on the United States steamer "Princeton," on Potomac river, in company with the president and the other members of the cabinet, to witness experiments with a large wrought-iron gull, which burst on being fired the third time and killed him together with several others.
		He commanded the brig "Truxtun" on her first cruise in the Mediterranean in 1843-'4, and served in the receiving-ship at Norfolk in 1844-'7.
	famousamericans.net /abelparkerupshur (777 words)

	CUTTERS & CRAFT
		"The Abel P. Upshur Served in Cuban Waters." Coast Guard Magazine (Jan 1934), p.
		Abel, Christopher A. "Designing a Patrol Boat Fleet For Tomorrow." The Bulletin (Feb/Mar 1988), pp.
		Delgado, James P. "In the Midst of Great Excitement: The Argosy of the Revenue Cutter C.W. Lawrence." The American Neptune XLV (Spring, 1985), pp.
	www.uscg.mil /HQ/G-CP/HISTORY/CUTTERBIB.html (10851 words)

	Exploring Amistad: Diplomatic Correspondence
		Washington Irving to Abel Upshur, March 2, 1844 (excerpt).
		Washington Irving, U.S. Minister to Spain, to Abel P. Upshur, U.S. Secretary of State
		SIR: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of despatches N
	amistad.mysticseaport.org /library/diplomacy/1844.03.02.irving.upshur.html (754 words)

	The Lone Star Iconoclast Online
		Instead of telling Abel P. Upshur that it was about time, Isaac Van Zandt played it cool by simply saying he would see if his president was interested.
		The cause of annexation suffered a seemingly serious setback on Feb. 28, 1844, when Secretary of State Upshur was killed in an explosion.
		Worried over Texans’ ties with the British, the American secretary of state let the Lone Star minister know on Nov. 10, 1843, that Washington was ready to resume the annexation talks.
	www.iconoclast-texas.com /Columns/Haile/haile45.htm (778 words)

	Boston.com / News / This Day in History / Today in history - Feb. 28
		In 1844, a 12-inch gun aboard the USS Princeton exploded, killing Secretary of State Abel P. Upshur, Navy Secretary Thomas W. Gilmer and several others.
		In 1827, the first U.S. railroad chartered to carry passengers and freight, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Co., was incorporated.
		In 1849, the ship California arrived at San Francisco, carrying the first of the gold-seekers.
	www.boston.com /news/history/articles/2004/02/27/today_in_history___feb_28 (424 words)

	Abel P Upshur, Secretary of State, dies in explosion on USS Princeton February 28 in History
		Abel P Upshur, Secretary of State, dies in explosion on USS Princeton February 28 in History
		Abel P Upshur, Secretary of State, dies in explosion on USS Princeton
		A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
	www.brainyhistory.com /events/1844/february_28_1844_51542.html (64 words)

	John Tyler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		During a ceremonial cruise down the Potomac River on February 28, 1844, a main gun of the USS Princeton blew up during a demonstration firing, instantly killing Thomas Gilmer, the Secretary of the Navy, and Abel P. Upshur, the Secretary of State.
		The last year of Tyler's presidency was marred by a freak accident that killed two of his Cabinet members.
		Tyler met his second wife, Julia Gardiner, during the ceremony.
	www.peekskill.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/John_Tyler (1486 words)

	Vaucluse Shores Real Estate on Virginia's Eastern Shore
		Some distinguished Virginians including Judge Abel P. Upshur who was appointed as Secretary of the Navy in 1841 and subsequently, Secretary of State have occupied the manor house over the years.
		Its pedimented porticoes are typical of the early architecture of the Eastern Shore and represents the best of the antebellum South.
		The manor house still stands, much as it was in 1780-1784 and has been lovingly maintained over the years.
	www.vaucluseshores.com (454 words)

	Modoc Whistle Sample Issue
		In November of 1841, President Tyler’s Secretary of the Navy, Abel P. Upshur, ordered "the necessary measures for constructing one steamer to defend Lake Erie."
		Upshur had been the Secretary of the navy for only a month when he gave this order.
		He had the foresight to see that the Navy wasting money on wooden warships, and he embraced the concept of steamers.
	www.boatnerd.com /museums/srmhs/modoc.htm (447 words)

	Clay, Harrison & 1840
		William Rives, Abel Upshur, John Berrien, and Duff Green.
		gun, and that was the end of Abel P. Upshur.
		Upshur was a guest at a demonstration of some sort
	www.h-net.msu.edu /~shear/thread/clay_harrison_and_1840.htm (1130 words)

	West Virginia Counties
		Named for Judge Abel P. Upshur, distinguished statesman and jurist of Virginia.
	www.wv.gov /county.aspx?regID=4&cID=26 (53 words)

	HISTORIC CONGRESSIONAL CEMETERY
		The bodies of the lamented Upshur, Gilmer, Maxcy, Kennon, and Gardner were brought to this city yesterday, in coffins, from the ship Princeton, on board of which, on the preceding afternoon, they passed from life to death by means not less fleet or fatal than fire from Heaven.
		Instantaneous Death, By the Bursting of One of the Large Guns on Board The United States Ship Princeton, Of Secretary Upshur, Secretary Gilmer, Commodore Kennon and Virgil Maxcy, Esq.
		The coffins were conveyed, with due solemnity, to the President's House, and placed in the East room, there to await the Funeral ceremonies.
	www.congressionalcemetery.org /HTML/Pomp/Princeton1844.html (3343 words)

	Lalor, Cyclopaedia of Political Science, V.1, Entry 20, ADMINISTRATIONS: Library of Economics and Liberty
		Graham, N. C., July 22, 1850, John P. Kennedy, Md., July 22, 1852; Interior, Thomas Ewing, O., March 8, 1849, James A. Pearce, Md., July 20, 1850, Thos.
		Seward, N. Y., March 5, 1861; Treas., Salmon P. Chase.
	www.econlib.org /library/YPDBooks/Lalor/llCy20.html (1883 words)

	DOSFAN ERC: Secretaries of State -Abel P. Upshur
		DOSFAN ERC: Secretaries of State -Abel P. Upshur
		During his term as Secretary of State Upshur was killed by the explosion of a gun on board the Battleship Princeton in the Potomac River about fifteen miles below Washington, D.C., February 28, 1844
		Commissioned during a recess of the Senate; ecommissioned after confirmation on Jan 2, 1844
	dosfan.lib.uic.edu /ERC/secretaries/aupshur.htm (98 words)

	Tippecanoe and Tyler, too !! - Tell the Truth!
		Secretary of the Navy: George E. Badger (1841); Abel P. Upshur (1841-43); David Henshaw (1843-44); Thomas W. Gilmer (1844); John Y. Mason (1844-45).
		Secretary of State: Daniel Webster (1841-43); Abel P. Upshur (1843-44);
		Submit a file for consideration for inclusion in this archive
	www.davidicke.net /tellthetruth/reststory/tyler.html (1599 words)

	MALLORY, Francis (1807-1860) Guide to Research Papers
		A letter from Francis Mallory to Abel P. Upshur written on October 7, 1841.
		The papers include a letter, 19 December 1841, to Francis Mallory, Washington, D.C., regarding a naval appointment.
		In the letter, Francis Mallory recommends the son of a friend for a naval warrant.
	bioguide.congress.gov /scripts/guidedisplay.pl?index=M000080 (107 words)

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