Nathan Updegraff was born to the couple
Joseph Updegraff (1726-1801), commissioner of York County, Pennsylvania, and Mary Webb Updegraff (1747-1833). He descended from a long line of ministers and elders of the
Quaker church, which belong to the
Op den Graeffs, a German family of Dutch origin. He was a direct descendant of
Herman op den Graeff,
Mennonite leader of
Krefeld, and his grandson
Abraham op den Graeff, one of the founders of
Germantown, and who in 1688 was a signer of the
first protest against slavery in colonial America. Nathan growing up in
York County,
Pennsylvania. In 1780 he married Ann Love (around 1757-1787/88) and after his first wife death he remarried with Ann
Lupton (9 June 1767 - 25 December 1833) in 1788. Afterwards the settled in
Winchester,
Virginia and established a had factory. he moved with his family to
Mount Pleasant,
Jefferson,
Ohio. In the same year he became founder and delegate to
Ohio's first constitutional convention for
Jefferson County. Nathan became a leader and minister of the Quakers in that area. He also served as a charter member of the Concord monthly meeting, the first in Ohio. They built up a meeting house in 1806/07 which was the largest one in the state. Mount Pleasant became a center of Quaker activity in eastern Ohio. Due his and other Quakers influence and work the city became a center of the
abolition movement. Updegraff built the first Mill in Mount Pleasant Township, manufactured paper and owned estates of 1,586
acres. • James Updegraff (1781-1871) • Joseph Updegraff (1783-1840) •
David Benjamin Updegraff (1789-1864) Children of Nathan Updegraff and Ann Lupton (9 June 1767 - 25 December 1833): == External links ==