Francis Henry Underwood (January 12, 1825 – August 7, 1894) was an American editor and writer. He was the founder and first associate editor of ''

The Atlantic Monthly ''The Atlantic'' is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher. It features articles in the fields of politics, foreign affairs, business and the economy, culture and the arts, technology, and science. It was founded in 1857 in Boston, ...

'' in 1857 while still working as a publisher's assistant.

Biography

Underwood was born on January 12, 1825 in

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, the son of Phoebe (Hall) and Roswell Underwood. Underwood worked in Kentucky from 1845 to 1850, but his hatred of slavery caused him to quit the state. He became an ardent supporter of the

Free Soil Party The Free Soil Party was a short-lived coalition political party in the United States active from 1848 to 1854, when it merged into the Republican Party. The party was largely focused on the single issue of opposing the expansion of slavery int ...

. Originally, he planned to launch a Free-soil magazine in 1853, but the idea did not come to fruition until ''The Atlantic Monthly'' in 1857. Underwood traveled to Britain in August 1885 on SS ''Cephalonia''. He arrived in

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and then traveled by railway to Glasgow. In 1885, Underwood was appointed American Consul at Glasgow in Scotland. In 1893, he was Consul for

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. He is noted as being a member of

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's "Pen and Pencil Club". He lived at 35 Mansionhouse Road in the Grange, Edinburgh. He died in

on August 7, 1894.''Dundee Advertiser'' (newspaper). 8 August 1894

Works

* ''

Cloud Pictures ''Cloud Pictures'' (1872) is a book by Francis H. Underwood Francis Henry Underwood (January 12, 1825 – August 7, 1894) was an American editor and writer. He was the founder and first associate editor of '' The Atlantic Monthly'' in 1857 while ...

'', a novel * ''Hand-books of English Literature'' * ''Builders of American Literature'' * ''Lord of Himself'' * ''Man Proposes'' * ''Dr. Gray's Quest'' * Biographies of Lowell, Longfellow, and Whittier

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Underwood, Francis Henry 1825 births 1894 deaths People from Enfield, Massachusetts American biographers 19th-century American diplomats American emigrants to Scotland