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Passed Away.PROMINENT HARDIN CO. PHYSICIAN.Eldora, Aug. 13.—Dr. Myron Underwood, a loading physician and prominent citizen of this county, was found dead in bed yesterday morning at 8 o’clock, having expired during the night of heart. disease. The doctor was county coroner several years ago and it was in this capacity that he secured the ill will of the notorious Rainsbarger gang and was shot at by them and his life threatened. lie was instrumental in exterminating the gang and became noted in his fight against law breakers. He represented Hardin and Grundy counties in the state, senate in 1880, filling out the unex-pired term of the late Governor Eastman.Dr. Underwood was a prominent citizen, whose loss was not. confined to Hardin county alone. Ilis professional life was a constant devotion to duty and no call at his door for assistance, whether made by the rich man or the penniless beggar, was ever left unanswered. He was a man of untiring energy, prominent in all works of charity and the upbuilding of town and county. In his death Eldora loses a worthy citizen, humanity a friend, his family a father ever kind and indulgent. A widow and five children are left to mourn his loss.Myron Underwood was born at Montville, Geauga county, Ohio, Aug. 7, 1838, where ho lived until he was 12 years of age, when he moved with his parents, Jonas and Mary Underwood, to McHenry county, 111. His literary cdutntion was received in common schools and at Mount Morris, 111. lie began the study of medicine with Dr. llager, of Marengo, 111., in 1855. In May, 1851), he came to Hardin county, locating first at SteamboatRock, moving to Eldora in July, 1800. In the first dark days of civil strife be considered it a duty to offer his services in defense of the llag. Re was commissiond as assistant sprgepn of the Twelfth Iowa infantry, serving until final discharge in October 1805. Ho was united in marriage in 1801 to Miss Sophia A., daughter of John Ellis, who located in this county in 1850. He was elected atato senator in 1880, when Hardin and Grundy counties comprised the senatorial district.
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Union Star
Union, Iowa, US
Fri, Aug 17, 1894
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