Underwood
Underwood names 3 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Underwood FRANCIS HENRY, an American auth author
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
FRANCIS HENRY, an American 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 Pictures," a series of imaginative stories musical in theme (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.
Underwood OSCAR WILDER, a United States Senator from Alabama
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
OSCAR WILDER, a United States Senator from Alabama, born in Louisville, Ky., in 1862. He was educated at the Rugby School and at the University of Virginia, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1884, and engaged in practice in Birmingham, Ala. Taking an active part in politics, he served in 1894 as chairman of the Democratic district executive committee, was later elected to the 54th Congress, and was successively re-elected up to and include ing the 63d Congress. During his service in the House of Representatives he made a careful study of financial and economic subjects and became one of the leading authorities on all matters relating to the tariff. He was chairman of the Ways and Means Committee of the 63d Congress. In 1914 he was elected to the Senate for the term ending 1921.
Underwood LUCIEN MARCUS, an American botanist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
LUCIEN MARCUS, an American botanist; born in New Woodstock, N. Y., Oct. 26 , 1853; spent his youth on a farm, and was graduated at Syracuse University in 1877. He was instructor in several colleges in Illinois in 1879-1883; at Syracuse University in 1883-1891, and at De Pauw University in 1891-1895. He was made Professor of Botany at Columbia University in 1896. He was the author of "Descriptive Catalogue of North America Hepatice" (1884); "Moulds, Mildews and Mushrooms" (1899); and "Our Native Ferns and How to Study Them" (1900); etc. He edited the Torrey Botanical Club "Bulletin." He died Nov. 16, 1907.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's, writing in 1921, could only say that Oscar Underwood "was elected to the Senate for the term ending 1921"; he was in fact re-elected and served until 1927, led Senate Democrats from 1920 to 1923, sat on the American delegation to the Washington Naval Conference, and made a famous second run at the presidency in 1924, when Alabama's twenty-four votes were cast for him through more than a hundred ballots of a deadlocked convention. He died in 1929, remembered chiefly for the Underwood Tariff Act of 1913, passed while he chaired Ways and Means. Francis Henry Underwood is now generally credited as the man who first proposed the "Atlantic Monthly," rather than merely assisting in its management, and his birthplace of Enfield, Massachusetts, which he described in his 1893 book about a New England town, no longer exists: it was emptied and flooded in the late 1930s to create the Quabbin Reservoir. Lucien Underwood's ferns and hepatics have been thoroughly reclassified since 1907, DNA sequencing having rearranged the fern family tree, but his popular guides kept amateur botanists in the field for decades.
Written for this edition, 2026.