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Winslow Upton after graduation from Brown University and two years of graduate study, accepted a position at the Harvard Observatory.

For three years he was connected with the U.S. Naval Observatory and with the U.S. Signal Corps ; ;

and after 1883, was professor of astronomy at Brown University.

The six expeditions to study eclipses of the sun, of which he was a member, took him to Colorado, Virginia, and California as well as to the South Pacific and to Russia.

After her father's death, Lucy and her youngest sister lived for a few years with Winslow in Washington, D.C..

`` Their house '', writes Albert S. Flint, `` was always a haven of hospitality and good cheer, especially grateful to one like myself far from home ''.

Lucy was a lively part of the household.

Moreover, she had physical as well as mental vigor.

Winslow, as his daughters Eleanor and Margaret recall, used to characterize her as `` our iron sister ''.

There is reason to suppose that Lucy would have made a record as publicly distinguished as her brother had it not been that her mother's death occurred just as she was about to enter college.

As a matter of fact, Albert S. Flint expressed his conviction that `` her physical strength, her mental power, her lively interest in all objects about her and her readiness to serve her fellow beings '' would have led her `` to a distinguished career amongst the noted women of this country ''.