When Ebenezer Cook Updyke was born on 1 April 1848, in Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States, his father, William Clement Updike, was 46 and his mother, Rachel Dean, was 42. He married Abigail Melvina Cox in 1870. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in South Brunswick Township, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States for about 10 years. He died on 22 April 1939, in Trenton, Mercer, New Jersey, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Riverview Cemetery, Trenton, Mercer, New Jersey, United States.
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Americanized form of Dutch Opdijk (see Updike ).
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