Frank Livingston Underwood

Frank Livingston Underwood (July 26, 1844 – March 17, 1918) was a US banker and copper magnate who built several Western United States railroads which afterward became parts of larger systems.

Underwood organized and was president of the Merchants' National Bank of Kansas City, Missouri, from 1879 until he left the West.

He built in 1886 the Saline, Lincoln & Western Railroad (later part of Union Pacific System, in Kansas).

He built the Lake Street Elevated Railroad in Chicago in 1893-94, and sold same to Charles T. Yerkes.

He procured options for and was the promoter of American Smelting & Refining Company, 1898.