He died as the result of an automobile accident in Coopers Plains, New York, February 7, 1929.

He served as chairman of the Committee on Industrial Arts and Expositions (Sixty-third Congress).

His father owned the Steuben Farmers' Advocate newspaper in Bath, and Edwin Underhill he served as editor there, and at the Canandaigua Messenger, before becoming editor and publisher of the Daily Democrat in Corning, New York, in 1899.

He also engaged in banking, serving as vice president of the Farmers & Mechanics' Trust Co., Bath, New York.

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