John Osborne and James W. Gerencser, eds., “Nathaniel Thomas Lupton,” Dickinson Chronicles, http://chronicles.dickinson.edu/encyclo/l/ed_luptonNT.htm.
Nathaniel T. Lupton was born to Nathaniel and Elizabeth Hodgson Lupton on December 30, 1830 near Winchester in Frederick County, Virginia. He received preparation for undergraduate studies at Newark Academy in Delaware. Lupton then entered the Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania with the class of 1849 as a junior in 1846, planning to study the law. While at the College, he was elected to the Belles Lettres Society.