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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Underwood, John Cox 1840- (search)
Underwood, John Cox 1840- Engineer; born in Georgetown, D. C., Sept. 12, 1840; graduated at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1862; served in the Confederate army as military engineer in Virginia, but was taken prisoner in 1863 and confined in Fort Warren till the close of the war. He was mayor of Bowling Green, Ky., in 1870-72; city, county, and (consulting) State engineer in 1866-75; lieutenant-governor of Kentucky in 1875-79; major-general of the United Confederate Veterans in 1891-95; and superintendent and secretary of the Confederate Memorial Association in 1896. He published various documents; established the Kentucky Intelligencer; organized a publishing company in Cincinnati, O., in 1881; and issued the Daily Yews, of which he was managing editor.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Whittier, John Greenleaf 1807-1892 (search)
Among them are the pamphlet Justice and expediency, which he refers to in his account of the convention of 1833 as his first venture in authorship, and his two letters to the Jeffersonian and times, Richmond, Va. (1833), on The abolitionists: their sentiments and objects. The life of Whittier, by Samuel T. Pickard, is especially full, touching his work against slavery and his general political life, which was much more active than is commonly supposed. There are briefer biographies by Underwood, Kennedy, and Linton, and interesting volumes of personal reminiscences by Mrs. Mary B. Claflin and Mrs. James T. Fields. The Anti-slavery convention of 1833. By John G. Whittier. Written in 1874. Copyright, 1888, by John Greenleaf Whittier. Reprinted by permission from Whittier's Prose Works, published by Houghton, Mifflin & Co. In the gray twilight of a chill day of late November, forty years ago, a dear friend of mine, residing in Boston, made his appearance at the old f