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...Brooklyn (at the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church) last week a 53-year-old missionary and his 25-year-old twin sons were together ordained to the Presbyterian ministry. They were Dr. Horace H. Underwood (of the typewriter Underwoods), who was repatriated two years ago from Korea, and his sons, James and John, graduates of Princeton Theological Seminary. Dr. Underwood has had no theological training. His 32 years' work as a veteran missionary in Korea kept him "too busy to be ordained." But he has a Ph.D. from New York University, and Presbyterian usage permits the ordination of men with...
First to Go In. The first Underwood in Korea (while it was still the Hermit Kingdom) was Grandfather Horace Grant Underwood, who went there as Korea's first Protestant missionary in 1885. Though Seoul was swarming with cholera (Koreans call it "the rat in the stomach disease") old Dr. Underwood used to stride about unscathed in his black buttoned-up coat and white tie. He was extremely proud of the fact that he was the only ordained Calvinist in the city. Later he married a medical missionary, Lillias Horton, who became physician to Korea's Queen Min. Soon...
Last week Grandfather Underwood's son recalled his Korean childhood. Queen Min used to dandle him on her royal knee. When the palace burned down the royal family moved next door to the Underwoods. When King Ik Song feared assassination, he sent for Grandfather Underwood and two other missionaries. They sat up all night guarding His Majesty with loaded revolvers...
Pearl Harbor Casualty. After his education in the U.S., young Underwood returned to Korea to teach at Chosen Christian College, founded by his father. In 1934 he became the College's president, held the job until the Japanese ousted him the day after Pearl Harbor...
Died. Bert Elias Underwood, 81, newsphoto pioneer, Underwood & Underwood's cofounder; in Tucson, Ariz. Onetime Kansas door-to-door salesman of stereoscopic views, by 1890 he and his brother had offices throughout the U.S. and Europe. To improve their wares, Bert learned photography, in 1897 sent his syndicate off to a good start by covering the Greco-Turkish War for Harper's Weekly and the Illustrated London News...