Levi Underwood

Levi Underwood

Levi Underwood (born December 24, 1821 in Hardwick , Vermont , † March 11, 1902 in Brattleboro , Vermont) was an American lawyer and politician who was Lieutenant Governor of Vermont from 1860 to 1862 .

Life

Underwood was born in Hardwick, Vermont. He studied law with Luke P. Poland and worked as a lawyer in Burlington . Underwood has been involved in several local companies and banks.

He was originally a member of the Free Soil Party , but switched to the Republican Party when it was reorganized in Vermont. At the first convention of the Vermont Republican Party in 1856, he held the office of chairman. He was a delegate to the first Republican National Convention later that year.

He was a deputy in the Municipal Council of Burlington, worked as District Attorney for the Chittenden County and was a senator in the Senate of Vermont before Lieutenant Governor was of Vermont from 1860 to 1862. Underwood was also a delegate from Vermont to the Peace Conference of 1861 in Washington, DC , at which attempts were made to prevent the later Civil War .

On June 17, 1851, he married Cornelia Van Ness Chamberlain. After he left politics, he worked again as a lawyer.

He died in Brattleboro, Vermont on March 11, 1902. His grave is in Burlington's Greenmount Cemetery. The day before, his wife died at their daughter's home in Brooklyn .

Honorary doctorate

He was awarded honorary degrees from the University of Vermont in 1855 and Dartmouth College in 1865.

Individual evidence

1. Jump up ↑ One Thousand Men , edited by Vermont Historical Society, 1915, 209
2. ^ The Vermont Historical Gazetteer , edited by Abby Maria Hemenway, Issue 1, 1867, p. 510
3. ↑ Vermont: The Green Mountain State , by Walter Hill Crockett, Volume 3, 1921, p. 447
4. ^ Proceedings of the First Three Republican National Conventions of 1856, 1860 and 1864 , edited by Charles W. Johnson, Minneapolis, 1893, 24
5. ^ Newspaper article, Delegates to Chicago and Charleston: Vermont Republican State Convention , New York Times, April 5, 1860
6. ^ Gazetteer and Business Directory of Chittenden County, Vermont, for 1882-83 , compiled by Hamilton Child, 1882, 99
7. ^ Proceedings of the Supreme Council of Sovereign Grand Inspectors General of the Thirty-third and Last Degree of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite , edited by Andrew H. Kellogg, New York, 1902, pp. 203-204
8. ^ The Massachusetts Register for the Year 1853 , edited by George Adams, Boston, p. 301
9. ↑ General Election Results, 1813-2011 ( Memento of the original of September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Edited by Vermont Secretary of State, State Archives and Records Administration, 2011, 10 
10. ↑ Lucius E. Chittenden entry , National Eyclopaedia of American Biography, edited by James T. White, New York, Issue 13, 1906, p. 553
11. ^ A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention , by Lucius Eugene Chittenden, 1864, 465
12. ↑ Cornelia Underwood's grave on Find a grave, accessed July 19, 2014
13. ^ The Bankers Magazine for 1864-65 , edited by I. Smith Homans, 1865, p. 853
14. ↑ Annual report on the railroads of New York , edited by The Argus Company, Albany, 1870, p. 490
15. ^ Proceedings of the National Commercial Convention , edited by the convention, 1872, p. 48
16. ↑ The Underwood Families of America, by Howard James Banker, Issue 1, 1913, pages 76-77
17. ↑ Recent Deaths column , The American Lawyer, May 1902, 224
18. ^ Levi Underwood necrology entry , Dartmouth College Necrology 1901-1902, edited by the college, 1902, 47
19. ^ Catalog of the Officers of Government and Instruction, the Alumni and other Graduates of the University of Vermont , edited by the University, p. 115

Web links

• Levi Underwood in the database of Find a Grave (English)