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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

    NATHANIEL THOMAS LUPTON, A.M., M.D., LL.D., Chair of Chemistry, Agricultural
and Mechanical College, and State Chemist of Alabama, was born near Winchester,
Va., December 19, 1830. His parents were Nathaniel and Elizabeth (Hodgson)
Lupton, natives of Virginia and of English descent.

    Dr. Lupton graduated at Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., in the year 1849.
Chemistry has always been a favorite pursuit with him, and consequently, after
graduation, he sought to gratify his wishes by studying the subject under the
great Bunsen, at Heidelberg, Germany. He spent two winters there in the
prosecution of his scientific studies, and upon his return to this country was
well qualified to deal with scientific subjects in the departments of chemistry
and geology. He filled the chair of these sciences at the famous Randolph-Macon
College, Virginia, from 1850 to 1858, and in the following year, up to and
including 1771, a period of twelve years, discharged the functions of a similar
position in the Southern University at Greensboro, Ala. He then accepted the
presidency and professorship of chemistry at the State University of Alabama
from 1871 to 1874, when he was called to the chair of chemistry at Vanderbilt
University, Nashville, Tenn., where he remained from 1874 to 1885. In that year
he was selected to fill the chair of Chemistry at the Agricultural and
Mechanical College, where he has since remained.

    Professor Lupton has received ample and gratifying recognition from his
contemporaries in the world of science, and has sustained many honorable
relations towards different scientific bodies. He is at present State Chemist of
Alabama; has twice been Vice-President of the American Scientific Association,
and presided over the seetion of chemistry at the meetings held in the city of
Nashville during his residence there, and at the meeting in Ann Arbor, Mich., in
1885; has been Vice-President of the American Chemical Society, and has taken an
active and leading part in the deliberations of many other scientific bodies.
During the war he was Chemist in the Ordnance Department of the Confederate
Government, with headquarters at Selma.

    Thus do we see Professor Lupton, from the time he returned to America,
inspired with the instructions received at the hands of the great Bunsen, taking
an eminent stand in the scientific world, and in all these years, his career has
been but a succession of triumphs and a recognition of his great ability. He has
sustained the most honorable relations to his fellow-man. and, wherever his lot
had been cast, has always moved in the highest social spheres. While in the
lecture room he has bestowed unlimited benefit upon the many young men who have
been so fortunate as to receive his instructions, his life has been spent in
eminent usefulness, and to him are many of the young men of the South indebted
for their practical knowledge of the sciences.

    Professor Lupton was married in 1854, to Miss Ella V., daughter of the Rev.
John and Hannah (Paine) Allemong, of Frederick County, Va. To them three
children have been born, viz.: Kate, who is a regular graduate of the Vanderbilt
University, from which she received the degree of M. A. She afterwards went to
Europe, where she pursued her studies for some time. The other children are Ella
and Frank.

    Professor Lupton has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South,
for many years. He is now a prominent member of the church at Auburn,
superintendent of the Sabbath-school, and on three different occasions, has been
a lay delegate to the General Conference of the Southern Methodist Church.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART III.
HISTORICAL RESUME OF THE VARIOUS COUNTIES IN THE STATE.
MINERAL BELT.


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