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Francis Henry Underwood was the son of Roswell Underwood, a farmer of Enfield, Massachussets, and Phoebe (Hall) Underwood. He was probably a descendant of Joseph Underwood who emigrated from England to Massachusetts in 1637.
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Francis Henry Underwood was the son of Roswell Underwood, a farmer of Enfield, Massachussets, and Phoebe (Hall) Underwood. He was probably a descendant of Joseph Underwood who emigrated from England to Massachusetts in 1637.
In spite of extreme poverty he managed to prepare himself for college and entered Amherst with the class of 1847. After one year, however, Underwood left college and went to Kentucky where he studied law. He received an honorary LL. D. from the University of Glasgow.
In 1847 Underwood was admitted to the bar (1847). His original antipathy to slavery was increased by what he saw of the institution, and he returned to Massachusetts in 1850 an ardent advocate of Free Soil principles. After twelve months of private law practice in Webster, Massachussets, he was appointed clerk of the state Senate for the session of 1852. Political feeling in the North had been roused by the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law, but had not yet taken form.
Underwood succeeded in interesting John Punchard Jewett, the publisher of Uncle Tom's Cabin, in a scheme for establishing a magazine which should enlist the literary forces of New England in a crusade against slavery. He secured the cooperation of a distinguished list of contributors and was ready to launch the new venture in December 1853. But at the last moment the publishers declined to proceed and the whole scheme had to be temporarily abandoned.
Underwood next entered the publishing house of Phillips, Sampson & Company, Boston, as literary editor, and for sometime devoted himself to extending his acquaintance among Boston and Cambridge authors. He then revived the project of a magazine. The cautious Phillips was slow to accept the proposal, but Underwood's efforts were warmly seconded by William Lee, a junior member of the firm, and by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Their united persuasions at length overcame the publisher's reluctance. On May 5, 1857, occurred the memorable dinner at the Parker House when Emerson, Lowell, Holmes, Longfellow, John Lothrop Motley, and James E. Cabot joined Phillips and Underwood in discussing plans for the yet unnamed magazine. In consequence of this and several succeeding dinners Underwood, who naturally expected to act as editor, was sent abroad to solicit contributions from British authors.
He returned in midsummer to find the success of the project imperiled by the financial panic of 1857. Realizing at once that the prestige of James Russell Lowell as editor would strengthen the undertaking, Underwood, "without a suggestion from any person, " nominated his friend for the position, and Lowell accepted. At the same time Holmes christened the new publication the Atlantic Monthly.
The first number appeared under the date of November 1857, and almost at once the magazine assumed the lead among American periodicals. Underwood's connection with the enterprise that he had projected and brought into being lasted only two years, during which time he loyally performed the routine work of assistant editor, sifting all contributions and making up numbers subject to Lowell's approval.
In 1859 both Phillips and Sampson died, their firm was dissolved, and the Atlantic became the property of Ticknor & Fields. Underwood, to his deep regret, was not retained by the new proprietors. After leaving the Atlantic he was elected (1859) clerk of the Superior Criminal Court of Boston. Social, literary, and civic affairs occupied much of his time. He was an original member and second president of the Papyrus Club, and for ten years served on the Boston school committee. To secure leisure for more sustained literary work he resigned his clerkship in 1866 and engaged in private business ventures, some of which proved to be unfortunate.
Meanwhile he wrote manuals of English and American literature; Cloud-Pictures (1872), a volume of short stories; Lord of Himself (1874), Man Proposes (1885), and Doctor Gray's Quest (1895), novels; and biographies of Longfellow, Lowell, and Whittier. By appointment of President Cleveland (confirmed, April 28, 1886) Underwood succeeded Francis Brett Harte as United States consul at Glasgow. He was recalled when the Democrats went out of office, but returned to Scotland (appointment confirmed, September 2, 1893) at the beginning of Cleveland's second term, this time to be consul at Leith. He died in Edinburgh.
Underwood's life abroad brought him many friendships and new distinctions. Nevertheless, his last years were not entirely happy. He was painfully conscious that he had not won the recognition that his industry, talent, and genial nature deserved. Always it had been his fate to play a secondary role, contributing much to the fame of others but gaining little credit for himself. As Francis Parkman lucidly pointed out to him, he was "neither a Harvard man nor a humbug" and so, being both unassuming and unsupported, a victim of his own merit.
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Underwood married Louisa Maria Wood in Taylorsville, Ky. , May 18, 1848. His wife, by whom he had had five children, died in 1882. Later he found consolation in a young Scotch wife, Frances Findlay of Callendar, near Glasgow.