Founder of the town of Altoona in Etowah County, Alabama.
Businessman, born July 24, 1848, at Nashville, Tennessee, and died June 25, 1916, in Williamsburg, Kentucky; the son of Eugene and Katherine (Thompson) Underwood, the former who was a native of Glasgow, Barren County, Ky., who lived at Nashville and was one of the pioneer officers of the Louisville and Nashville railroad, and a lawyer; grandson of Joseph Rogers and Eliza (Trotter) Underwood who lived at Glasgow, and Bowling Green, Kentucky, the former who was a cousin of George Rogers Clark, was a congressman and senator from Kentucky, and was a contemporary of Henry Clay also an intimate friend and counselor, and of William Thompson and Susan (Vance) Thompson who lived at Nashville, Tennessee; and a half brother of Senator Oscar Underwood.
The family history is traced back to Shropshire, England, from whence the family came to America with the Lees of Virginia in the seventeenth century. The early days of William T. Underwood were spent in Kentucky and he received his education in the public schools of Louisville and at the Forrest Academy. Began the study of law early; was admitted to practice in the Kentucky courts; located in the northwest and ventured in the state of Minnesota with land deals and speculations; and settled in Birmingham in 1881.
In 1883, he and Henry F. DeBardeleben formed a company and opened the Mary Pratt furnace; in 1884 they leased a tract of ore land from the Alice Furnace Company on Red Mountain and opened the Reading Mines; operated mines not alone in the Birmingham district but included Blount and Etowah Counties and even extended to Whitfield County, Kentucky. Mr. Underwood was also a director in the First National Bank and in the Birmingham Trust and Savings Company.
Married: October 4, 1871, at St. Paul, Minn., to Miss Marinda Burnett, daughter of Oscar and Frederika Virginia (Smith) Wilder, the former a native of Maryland who moved to Louisville, Kentucky., when a boy and died there in 1854, the latter who was a daughter of Jabez Sidney Smith, mayor of Petersburg, and owner of cotton mills there.
Children: 1. Kenneth, b. May 30, 1887 in Birmingham, m. Miss Lucie Crommelin Wood of Montgomery; one child. May Crommelin Underwood, residence Montgomery; 2. Virginia, b. November 28, 1890, in Birmingham, m. William Carter O'Ferrall, son of former Gov. Charles T. O'Ferrall of Virginia, one child, William Underwood, b. August 10, 1917.
Last residence: Williamsburg, Ky.
Businessman, born July 24, 1848, at Nashville, Tennessee, and died June 25, 1916, in Williamsburg, Kentucky; the son of Eugene and Katherine (Thompson) Underwood, the former who was a native of Glasgow, Barren County, Ky., who lived at Nashville and was one of the pioneer officers of the Louisville and Nashville railroad, and a lawyer; grandson of Joseph Rogers and Eliza (Trotter) Underwood who lived at Glasgow, and Bowling Green, Kentucky, the former who was a cousin of George Rogers Clark, was a congressman and senator from Kentucky, and was a contemporary of Henry Clay also an intimate friend and counselor, and of William Thompson and Susan (Vance) Thompson who lived at Nashville, Tennessee; and a half brother of Senator Oscar Underwood.
The family history is traced back to Shropshire, England, from whence the family came to America with the Lees of Virginia in the seventeenth century. The early days of William T. Underwood were spent in Kentucky and he received his education in the public schools of Louisville and at the Forrest Academy. Began the study of law early; was admitted to practice in the Kentucky courts; located in the northwest and ventured in the state of Minnesota with land deals and speculations; and settled in Birmingham in 1881.
In 1883, he and Henry F. DeBardeleben formed a company and opened the Mary Pratt furnace; in 1884 they leased a tract of ore land from the Alice Furnace Company on Red Mountain and opened the Reading Mines; operated mines not alone in the Birmingham district but included Blount and Etowah Counties and even extended to Whitfield County, Kentucky. Mr. Underwood was also a director in the First National Bank and in the Birmingham Trust and Savings Company.
Married: October 4, 1871, at St. Paul, Minn., to Miss Marinda Burnett, daughter of Oscar and Frederika Virginia (Smith) Wilder, the former a native of Maryland who moved to Louisville, Kentucky., when a boy and died there in 1854, the latter who was a daughter of Jabez Sidney Smith, mayor of Petersburg, and owner of cotton mills there.
Children: 1. Kenneth, b. May 30, 1887 in Birmingham, m. Miss Lucie Crommelin Wood of Montgomery; one child. May Crommelin Underwood, residence Montgomery; 2. Virginia, b. November 28, 1890, in Birmingham, m. William Carter O'Ferrall, son of former Gov. Charles T. O'Ferrall of Virginia, one child, William Underwood, b. August 10, 1917.
Last residence: Williamsburg, Ky.
Founder of the town of Altoona in Etowah County, Alabama.
Businessman, born July 24, 1848, at Nashville, Tennessee, and died June 25, 1916, in Williamsburg, Kentucky; the son of Eugene and Katherine (Thompson) Underwood, the former who was a native of Glasgow, Barren County, Ky., who lived at Nashville and was one of the pioneer officers of the Louisville and Nashville railroad, and a lawyer; grandson of Joseph Rogers and Eliza (Trotter) Underwood who lived at Glasgow, and Bowling Green, Kentucky, the former who was a cousin of George Rogers Clark, was a congressman and senator from Kentucky, and was a contemporary of Henry Clay also an intimate friend and counselor, and of William Thompson and Susan (Vance) Thompson who lived at Nashville, Tennessee; and a half brother of Senator Oscar Underwood.
The family history is traced back to Shropshire, England, from whence the family came to America with the Lees of Virginia in the seventeenth century. The early days of William T. Underwood were spent in Kentucky and he received his education in the public schools of Louisville and at the Forrest Academy. Began the study of law early; was admitted to practice in the Kentucky courts; located in the northwest and ventured in the state of Minnesota with land deals and speculations; and settled in Birmingham in 1881.
In 1883, he and Henry F. DeBardeleben formed a company and opened the Mary Pratt furnace; in 1884 they leased a tract of ore land from the Alice Furnace Company on Red Mountain and opened the Reading Mines; operated mines not alone in the Birmingham district but included Blount and Etowah Counties and even extended to Whitfield County, Kentucky. Mr. Underwood was also a director in the First National Bank and in the Birmingham Trust and Savings Company.
Married: October 4, 1871, at St. Paul, Minn., to Miss Marinda Burnett, daughter of Oscar and Frederika Virginia (Smith) Wilder, the former a native of Maryland who moved to Louisville, Kentucky., when a boy and died there in 1854, the latter who was a daughter of Jabez Sidney Smith, mayor of Petersburg, and owner of cotton mills there.
Children: 1. Kenneth, b. May 30, 1887 in Birmingham, m. Miss Lucie Crommelin Wood of Montgomery; one child. May Crommelin Underwood, residence Montgomery; 2. Virginia, b. November 28, 1890, in Birmingham, m. William Carter O'Ferrall, son of former Gov. Charles T. O'Ferrall of Virginia, one child, William Underwood, b. August 10, 1917.
Last residence: Williamsburg, Ky.
Businessman, born July 24, 1848, at Nashville, Tennessee, and died June 25, 1916, in Williamsburg, Kentucky; the son of Eugene and Katherine (Thompson) Underwood, the former who was a native of Glasgow, Barren County, Ky., who lived at Nashville and was one of the pioneer officers of the Louisville and Nashville railroad, and a lawyer; grandson of Joseph Rogers and Eliza (Trotter) Underwood who lived at Glasgow, and Bowling Green, Kentucky, the former who was a cousin of George Rogers Clark, was a congressman and senator from Kentucky, and was a contemporary of Henry Clay also an intimate friend and counselor, and of William Thompson and Susan (Vance) Thompson who lived at Nashville, Tennessee; and a half brother of Senator Oscar Underwood.
The family history is traced back to Shropshire, England, from whence the family came to America with the Lees of Virginia in the seventeenth century. The early days of William T. Underwood were spent in Kentucky and he received his education in the public schools of Louisville and at the Forrest Academy. Began the study of law early; was admitted to practice in the Kentucky courts; located in the northwest and ventured in the state of Minnesota with land deals and speculations; and settled in Birmingham in 1881.
In 1883, he and Henry F. DeBardeleben formed a company and opened the Mary Pratt furnace; in 1884 they leased a tract of ore land from the Alice Furnace Company on Red Mountain and opened the Reading Mines; operated mines not alone in the Birmingham district but included Blount and Etowah Counties and even extended to Whitfield County, Kentucky. Mr. Underwood was also a director in the First National Bank and in the Birmingham Trust and Savings Company.
Married: October 4, 1871, at St. Paul, Minn., to Miss Marinda Burnett, daughter of Oscar and Frederika Virginia (Smith) Wilder, the former a native of Maryland who moved to Louisville, Kentucky., when a boy and died there in 1854, the latter who was a daughter of Jabez Sidney Smith, mayor of Petersburg, and owner of cotton mills there.
Children: 1. Kenneth, b. May 30, 1887 in Birmingham, m. Miss Lucie Crommelin Wood of Montgomery; one child. May Crommelin Underwood, residence Montgomery; 2. Virginia, b. November 28, 1890, in Birmingham, m. William Carter O'Ferrall, son of former Gov. Charles T. O'Ferrall of Virginia, one child, William Underwood, b. August 10, 1917.
Last residence: Williamsburg, Ky.
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