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DAVID LOGAN UNDERWOOD, county surveyor of Morrow county, Ohio, was born in Canaan township, this county August 30, 1868, a son of William and Caroline (Shuey) Underwood.
     His father, a farmer and blacksmith, David L., passed his boyhood days assisting in the farm work and attending district school, and as a young man learned his father's trade and worked with him in the shop. Later he studied engineering and gave considerable time to the work of civil engineer. In the fall of 1905 he was elected to the office of county surveyor of his native county. He rendered such acceptable service in this office that in 1908 he was elected to succeed himself, and at this writing, 1910, he has the nomination for a third term.
     Mr. Underwood has always been a stanch Republican. Fraternally he is an Odd Fellow, having membership in both the Lodge (No. 760) and Encampment, and he is also an honored member of the Charles H. Hull Lodge of Knights of Pythias No. 195. His religious creed is that of the Methodist Protestant church at South Canaan. He is unmarried.
Source:  History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – pp. 546-547
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