Background
Underwood, Lucien Marcus was born on October 26, 1853 in New Woodstock, New York, United States. Son of John Lincklaen and Jane H. (Smith) Underwood.
Botanist mycologist pteridologist
Underwood, Lucien Marcus was born on October 26, 1853 in New Woodstock, New York, United States. Son of John Lincklaen and Jane H. (Smith) Underwood.
Lived on farm in boyhood. Graduate Syracuse University, 1877, Doctor of Philosophy.
Taught in various colleges in Illinois, 1879-1883. Syracuse University, 1883-1891. De Pauw University, Indiana, 1891-1895, Alabama Polytechnic Institute, 1895-1896, professor botany, Columbia, since 1896.
Author: Descriptive Catalogue of North American Hepaticæ, 1884.
Moulds, Mildews and Mushrooms, 1899. Our Native Ferns and Their Allies, 1900.
Our Native Ferns and How to Study Them, 1901. Address: New York, New New York
Married Marie Antoinette Spurr, August 10, 1881.