Nathaniel Gookin Upham

The elder Gookin was a prominent businessman who would later serve three terms in the United States House of Representatives.

Nathaniel Gookin's elder brother was Thomas Cogswell Upham, who would become a distinguished professor at Bowdoin College.

[1] In 1833, Upham was appointed an associate justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court, replacing John Harris.

At age thirty-two, Upham was the second-youngest man (after Levi Woodbury) that had ever been placed on the bench.

Upham served in this role for ten years under Chief Justices William M. Richardson and Joel Parker.

[1] In 1853, Upham was appointed as a representative of the United States to develop a treaty with Edmund Hornby of Great Britain.

Although he did not hold strong political beliefs, he was elected to the New Hampshire House of Representatives, where he served from 1865 to 1866.