I ff/s f/ojy^fsy By RALPH R. SILVER PliotoisrRjpliN for thin article taken by Bert. G. Cnvcil an honor, such an exalted and high po- street arm in arm, entering: a restaurant | dollar terminal station and below It the sition, had never entered his head. of or cafe together and enjoying a quiet tall skyscrapers and office buildings Lewis W. Turpin was democratic con- the business district of little meal. The two men Birmingham. gressman from the Ninth district then hq^niobbcd about together until the matter w$.s ton- Has Been Twice Married On May 6. 1862, in a three-story, light hunting and fishing and developing the minghty.ni he became a member of the and when Turpin online back home in ally settled, then they shook hands, Mr. I'nderwood returned to a colored brick house which now stands sturdy constitution that now enables him Ninth district the summer of 1S93 he found himself Virginia democratic congressional op- Aldrich went to the to work far for capitol an<! short time after his coming to Birming- in the old the W. from early, morning until posed re-nomination by Oscar \\\ part of city, Oscar committee. His services in this connec- took Underwood!*, seat and Underwood ham and there married his into the night, gathering statistics on Underwood; for the persuasion of Under- boyhood second striking characteristic of the man Underwood was born in Louisville, Ky. tion brought him no particular attention carfae home. sweetheart. Miss Massie. The schedule K or preparing a welcome ad- wood’s friends had prevailed and he Eugenia appears. Underwood's next election was Although the young Kentuckian made dress for J., of demo- until in 1892. when lie was elected a del- to enter tlife theft couple returned to Birmingham and Mrs. William erstwhile agreed race. It was then and It is his conservatism- from district there a settled matter. When he beeaimva factor in the his initial advent into this world but cratic fame and now of Lincoln. Neb. egate the Ninth to the dem- that the republican party and its allied Underwpod potent came home.to he was Conservatism bristles out of Under- It was in 1S7.1 that the I'nderwood fam- ocratic state committee meeting. That Birmingham made success of her husband- Two sons were five days after the memorable surrender partyettes in Alabama began their death a the martyr, a large crowd met him at th*> born to this John ‘Lewis Under- wood likp quilts out of. a porcupine. He ily returned to. Louisville, Ky., again was time of the heated contest, be- struggles. Truman H. Aldrich, present union, of New Orleans and during the spring old Louisville and Nashville station with always couches his answers to such to take up their residence in that city. tween R. F. Ivolb and Gov. T. G. Jones of wood, now 25 years of age, and connected postmaster Birmingham, was nomi- a in of 1862 when the civil war was at for the brass band and gave him a rousing- with the Woodward Iron and questions such language that they raging Oscar was then 13 years of age. I-Je had gubernatorial democratic nomina- nated by these allied forces as Under- company, welcome. He received three times the can not. foe twisted about and made to its height, yet none of the Underwood gone to a preparatory sohool In St. tion, both men claiming that they had wood’s opponent. Oscar XV. Underwood, Jr., 21 years of attention Aldrich -mean that he didn't had been nominated. Underwood was made paid when he returned age last and a student In his see-' something say. No fafrnily were ever connected with either Paul, received some education from The campaign was pretty lively, with a July to Birmingham a few weeks later. Un- ond at the law of the Uni- party secff.ts or plans ever get out private instructors and upon his return chairman of the committee on creden- few little tilts now and then, but Under- year college eifle of tho historic conflict. Eugtone Un- derwood entered the race through Underwood and he to Louisville he entered tials and made the majority report which undaunted and versity of Virginia, his father’s alma before the Louisville wood didn’t deliver any pyrotechnical or- in derwood, the present congressman's fa- 18% was fleeted again; there was no mater. places his endorsement on such plans Rugby school, where he received what gave Jones the nomination and the elec- atory or do any mud slinging; he just doubt about it this time, and Congress- the all forms of radicalism are removed. ther, was a well to do lawyer, who be- might be termed a school tion. That was ids first conspicuous in- the Mrs. Underwood passed away in high edqca- calmly passed about among vo- man W. That's the realm of Oscar Underwood has repre- year 1900 and her death the what is now drawing the strong- lieved in peace and he had h Moj \ into politics. Not ters,. to them as brought prosperity; yasioji talking personally often sented the of est financial Interests of the afterward he was chosen candidate Ninth district Alabama In sorrow' Into Oscar Underwood’s country of children and therefore for the. Law lotfig aa possible, making speeches which greatest large family Training the House of ever since. life. toward Underwood with the view of of the Ninth district democratic con- teemed with Representatives Ever since Mr. Underwood had never took an active in the The elder l’ndc*rw<ipd as a often good common horse sense, part great lawyer committee the been in and from her very backing his presidential campaign. The to gressional and political and when the votes were counted the Is Work Birmingham talked the son of ho.w •some day he Policy interests like a conservative man war. But important event often .hap- career of Oscar W. Under wood was get- Childhood, he had known Miss Bertha money wanted him to ho a the Ninth district had a congressman by the lawyer, q\t$r*. .Vs. Since his return to Congress in 189t'. he of If. Wood- and Underwood fills their bill to the pen in bunches, and the war between ting well under way.1 name of Underwood. /Woodward, daughter Joseph boy grew" older idieii discussed With has never made an last lif active personal cam- ward of the Woodward Iron company, requirement. the states and the arrival of a now mem- his f^th^r a law darker, and his Then the old Ninth district democratic through Always a Peacemaker paign. Underwood's policy was work, of Birmingham's millionaires. In A remark made by one of his friends ber of the Underwood were not father s was into committee elected a new chairman, and pne family yraottce brought close and work all the time. His political cam* Miss a short time ago very clearly illustrates Underwood has always been a peace- in the fall of $904 Woodward became the wife of the rule. touch with the profession. The boy’s 1894 Oscar Underwood bid were characteristic. He was one •ireptions to maker. When lie became chairman of | paigns conducted accordingly. 5*1r. I’nderwood. She is a talented and this of the desires were so by the father good-by to smoky Birmingham, the city who first The latter was a great event for-two tempered the During the “off year or his term, the educated whose men urged Underwood to make Ninth district congressional com- of blast and went to Highly lady personal that when he grew oUl enough to be- furnaces, Washing- year after his and the the race for in 18M. and was mittee there was in election preceding ciharm and social graces have won her Congress reasons. That Underwood baby, later to to have party friction the ton, D. (’., to see that the folks back gin ambitions he. uuturally end of his term, he came home speaking of why it was Underwood to ranks. The old Ninth district covered home always parked distinction. It is said that she be known as Oscar VV. Underwood, Ala- thouglit of himself as the were not forgotten w'hen the ap- the choice fell to make entering pro- than it and “just visited round among the fel- Has a particular for wliorA the race more territory then does now. were and faculty wearing bama's choice for President of these fession <>f law. He just gre\t up with propriations handed around lows.' He didn't do out and out then. “Underwood Is a whose and included what is now known as the any Certain kinds of evening and dinner gentleman that idea in his head and ho never felt ( When a little southern oratory was need- seems United States in the year 101,2. weighed, campaign work, but he made it a point ff*>wns which make her one of personal bearing I have Tuscaloosa district. The city of .Birming- ed on always perfect. any inclination to change Ids hi i n cl tlie floor of the House to put spice to of never known him to a 13 from the stand- ham to get into ail corners his district, tHe best dressed women and- the center actually offend pounds. Speaking about it. was' just commencing realize into things. make once in a man thoughtlessness or mistake. IT* an It was public speeches while, attraction at social gatherings. She is by point of that is some baby, what important place was and Underwood was avoirdupois, Alter completing his course at Rugby disappointed.