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DANIEL UNDERHILL
| Daniel Underhill, was born January 10, 1826, in Tippecanoe county, Indiana. He was educated in the common schools and came to Linn county, Kansas, in march 1857. He was the first postmaster of Jackson, Linn County, being appointed in November 1857. He was elected to the legislature of 1863 and was a member of the senate of 1867-68. He was appointed a trustee of the Osawatomie state Hospital, serving from 1866 to 1869, and was its steward in 1870-73. In 1869 he was elected probate judge of his county, but resigned. He was county treasurer in 1878-82. He enlisted in Company I, Tenth regiment Kansas state militia, organized to repel the invasion of General Price. Mr. Underhill was married July 24, 1851, to Julia A. Richhart.
(Transactions of the Kansas State Historical Society 1907-1908, Vol. X, edited by Geo. W. Martin, Secretary, State Printing Office, Topeka, 1908, page 268) |