Silas Albertson Underhill was an orthodox Quaker, an attorney, and later an assistant clerk in the New York Supreme Court, Brooklyn.
He also served in the Civil War, and later was a member of the Grant Post of the Grand Army of the Republic.
His father Alexander Underhill was born in house Major John Andre was captured on the highway from Peekskill to Somerstown.
He was one of twelve students to receive the degree of Bachelor of Arts from Haverford College during commencement exercises in 1860.
Ultimately he decided to give his services and was enlisted in the Regiment of Colonel Stewart L. Woodford.
[4] General Steward L. Woodford recognized he was a college man and selected him as one of his secretaries to write in his headquarters.
He remained with General Woodford including when he became the Military Governor of Charleston, South Carolina.
Enlisting as a private soldier, and continuing such from principle throughout the entire Rebellion, he survived its vicissitudes and dangers.
[7] Silas Albertson Underhill died December 24, 1906, in the office of the Brooklyn Union Gas Company.