Edwin Stewart Underhill (October 7, 1861 – February 7, 1929) was a

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from

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. Born in

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, Underhill attended the common schools of his native city and Haverling High School at Bath. He graduated from

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in 1881. He died as the result of an automobile accident in

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, February 7, 1929. He was interred in Grove Cemetery,

Political service

He served as presidential elector on the Democratic ticket in 1888. Underhill was elected as a

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to the Sixty-second and Sixty-third Congresses (March 4, 1911 – March 3, 1915). He served as chairman of the Committee on Industrial Arts and Expositions (Sixty-third Congress). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1914. He served as delegate to the Democratic National Convention at

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, in 1928.

Professional life

His father owned the ''Steuben Farmers' Advocate'' newspaper in Bath, and Edwin Underhill he served as editor there, and at the ''Canandaigua Messenger'', before becoming editor and publisher of the ''Daily Democrat'' in

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, in 1899. After his political service he returned to newspapers; he was publisher of the ''Democrat'' and its successor, '' The Evening Leader'', until his death, and his descendants continued to run the newspaper until 1972. He also engaged in banking, serving as vice president of the Farmers & Mechanics' Trust Co.,

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*Peer, Dick
"The Leader: About Us"
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