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Underwood (FRANCIS HENRY an American)

FRANCIS HENRY, an American author; born in Enfield, auth author; born in Enfield , Mass., Jan. 12, 1825. He was an active abolitionist; clerk of the Massachusetts Senate in 1852; afterward literary editor of the publishing house of Phillips , Sampson & Co. He assisted in the management of the "Atlantic Monthly" for two years; was elected clerk of the superior court in Boston, which position he held for 11 years. In 1885 he was appointed United States consul at Glasgow; in 1888 the University of Glasgow conferred upon him the degree of LL. D.

His works include a "Hand-Book of American Literature" (1872) "Cloud " (1872); "Cloud Pictures," a series of imaginative stories musical in theme (1877) "Lord of Him- (1877); "Lord of Himself," a novel of old times in Kentucky (1874) ; "Man Proposes" (1880) ; and biographical sketches of Longfellow (1882) Lowell (1882); and Whittier (1883). He died in Edinburgh, Scotland, Aug. 7 1894.