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WILL N. UNDERWOOD, editor and proprietor of the Cannelton Enquirer and Reporter, is a native of New York, where he was born in Delaware County, September 16, 1841. He is the youngest child and only son in a family of six children born to the marriage of Nathaniel Underwood and Roxanna Cannon. When he was four years old his parents removed to Ostego County, of the same State, where he was reared and received a good education, graduating from the New Berlin Academy in 1857. The next three years he spent in learning the printer’s trade in the office of the Chenango Union. In the fall of 1860 he went to Janesville, Wis., and was engaged as pressman on the Democrat. In October, 1861, he enlisted as a private in the Sixteenth New York Heavy Artillery, with which regiment he served until August, 1865. After his return from the war he was engaged in the printing business at Pittsburgh, and later spent three years at Carlinville, Ill., where he married Etta Wargensted on March 7, 1869. From Carlinville he went to Topeka, Kan., and assumed the foremanship in the office of the State Record, remaining there until 1873. In that year he came to Cannelton and purchased an interest in the Enquirer, a few years later he became the sole owner, and in 1877 bought the Reporter and consolidated the two under the title of Enquirer and Reporter.