William P. (William Phineas) Upham

Born in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1836, William Phineas Upham was a local historian and researcher whose work centered on Salem history and the witchcraft trials. Contemporary catalog and reference sources link him especially to the visual and documentary side of that history, including maps and related research prepared in support of his father Charles Wentworth Upham’s major study Salem Witchcraft.

He is credited with creating the 1866 Map of Salem Village, 1692, published with his father’s work, and Charles W. Upham acknowledged drawing extensively on his son’s help in working with original sources. William P. Upham later published House of John Procter, Witchcraft Martyr, 1692 in 1904, showing that his interest in the people and places of the trials continued late in life.

Available sources confirm that he was born on January 19, 1836, and died on November 23, 1905, in Newton, Massachusetts. A reliable portrait was not clearly available from the pages found during this search, so no profile image is included here.