Hobart Brown Upjohn

Background

Upjohn, Hobart Brown was born on May 2, 1876 in Brooklyn, New York, United States. Son of Richard Michell and Emma Degen (Tyng) Upjohn.

Education

Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, 1890-1895. Mechanical Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology, 1899. Doctor of Laws, Hobart College, Geneva, New York, 1933.

Career

In shops of Worthington Pump Company, 1899-1900. 3d assistant engineer South.S. New York, 1900. With New York Shipbuilding Company, 1900-1901, Lackawanna & Wyoming Valley Railroad, 1901.

Assistant principal School of Architectural Engineering, International Corresponding Schools, 1901-1903.

Engineer Eidlitz & McKenzie, architects, New York City, 1903-1905. In practice as architect since 1905.

Principal works: First Presbyterian churches, Wilmington, Greensboro and Concord, North Carolina. Sprunt Memorial Presbyterian Church, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Saint Luke’s Church, Montclair, New Jersey.

Saint Catherine’s School, Richmond, Virginia. All Souls Unitarian Church, New York City. Hobart, William Smith and North Carolina State colleges.

Achievements

• Hobart Brown Upjohn has been listed as a notable architect. by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member Commision on Architecture and Allied Arts, Protestant Episcopal Church America. Member New Jersey Naval Reserve, 1895-1896. Fellow American Institute Architects (president New York Chapter).

Mason.

Clubs: Church.

Connections

Married Margaret Miller, April. Children: Everard Miller, Elizabeth Degen, Dorothy.

Father:

Richard Michell Upjohn

Mother:

Emma Degen (Tyng) Upjohn

Spouse:

Margaret Miller

child:

Elizabeth Degen Upjohn

child:

Everard Miller Upjohn

child:

Dorothy Upjohn