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UNDERWOOD J. H. book-seller and dealer in stationery, picture frames and miscellaneous articles, west side Square, Carrollton. Mr. Underwood was born in Harrison Co., Kentucky, July 31, 1825; he was but eight years of age when his parents immigrated to the West, settling in Sangamon Co., Ill., in 1833, where the subject of our sketch passed the days of his youth and grew to manhood. Receiving a liberal education in Schuyler Co., he was united in marriage to Miss Ellen Smith, a daughter of James Smith, by whom he has seven children. For one year Mr. Underwood became a resident of Mt. Sterling, Brown Co., where he taught the public school of this enterprising town; in 1862 he moved to Jacksonville, Morgan Co., where he became engaged in the drug business for a period of three years, when he moved to Carrollton, where he began, in a small way, the business mentioned above; slowly but surely, however, success attended his energetic efforts, and today he has the only regular establishment of its kind on a permanent basis in Greene Co., and a look through his well-stocked store, by those intending to purchase, will well repay the visit.