NORTHUP, Jeremiah

1815 - 1879  (64 years)

• Name	NORTHUP, Jeremiah
  Birth	1815	Falmouth, Hants, Nova Scotia, Canada
  Gender	Male
  Death	10 Apr 1879	Halifax, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
  Person ID	I25047	Ward and Related Families of Nova Scotia and North Yorkshire
  Last Modified	28 Jun 2025

  
  

  Father	NORTHUP, John,   b. 1793, Falmouth, Hants, Nova Scotia, Canada d. 30 Nov 1879, Halifax, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (Age 86 years)
  Mother	HARVIE, Agnes,   b. 1792, Falmouth, Hants, Nova Scotia, Canada d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	18 Aug 1814	Falmouth, Hants, Nova Scotia, Canada
  Family ID	F8907	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	COCHRANE, Emeline,   b. 1819, Hants, Nova Scotia, Canada d. 1887, Nova Scotia, Canada (Age 68 years)
  Marriage	29 Sep 1848	Newport, Hants, Nova Scotia, Canada
  Family ID	F8908	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jul 2025

  
  

• Notes

  Appletons' Cyclopedia of American Biography, 1600-1889 Northrup (sic), Jeremiah, Canadian senator, b. in Falmouth, N.S., in 1815. He is descended from Jeremiah Northrup, a loylist, who went to Nova Scotia from the United States at the close of the Revolution and represented Falmouth in the first provincial parliament that sat in Nova Scotia for twenty-five years until his death. Jeremiah was educated at Halifax, became a merchant and shipowner, director of the Ocean marine insurance company, a member of the committee of the Protestant Industrial school, and a governor of Dalhousie college. He was a commissioner for signing treasury notes, and represnted Halifax in the provincial legislature from 1867 until he was elected to the Dominion senate, 10 Oct., 1870.