Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Underhill, Joel 1825 - 
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Author: History of Grundy Co 1882

Joel Underhill, physician, Gardner. Prominently identified among the 
physicians of this county is the man whose name heads article. He was born 
November 25, 1825, in Dutchess County, N. Y.; is a son of Henry N. and Julia 
A. (Carpenter) Underhill, natives of New York, and the parents of nine 
children - Caroline, Joel, Louisa, Henry P., Ida, only survive. The parents 
belonged to the Christian denomination known as Friends. The Doctor had but 
little chance of attending school in his younger days. At the age of twenty-
one, he started for himself. While at New Orleans, he was taken with yellow 
fever, and returned home when only partially recovered. He engaged some time 
after this in farming, renting of his father. He later met with another 
misfortune, that of the erysipelas, and after recovering he began reading 
medicine with Dr. Galord, and remained with him till 1849-50, at which time he 
attended lectures at a medical college, New York, transferring from there to 
Sodus Ridge, N. Y., where he bought a drug store with Dr. Galord, and remained 
there for two years, when he sold out and went to Buffalo, and continued his 
studies with Dr. Hill for about three years, after which he attended three 
courses of lectures at Buffalo, at which city he opened up an office for three 
years. At this period, he gave up his practice on account of poor health. He 
made some changes in locality, and finally engaged in a flouring mill at 
Dwight, this State. In 1864, he bought a farm in Greenfield Township, this 
county, and has farmed the same since until 1872, when he resumed practice, 
taking up the homeopathic system. Was married, in 1862, to Caroline Crouthers. 
His wife is a member of the Presbyterian Church. The Doctor votes the 
Democratic ticket.

Additional Comments:
Source: History of Grundy County, Illinois. (1882) Chicago: O.L. Baskin & Co. 
Historical Publishers.

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