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leased space for this material on East Main Street in Oyster Bay. They continued to operate from this location through the 1990s, when the
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The founder of the family here was a good soldier and a good citizen, and the Underhills have to-day furnished their full quota of good soldiers and good citizens in their time. If they had not, I would not have been
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and other descendants of Captain John Underhill. The purpose of the Underhill Society of America initially was to establish a monument at the gravesite of the immigrant ancestor.
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was a leading American industrialist and a key diplomatic figure at the hub of many of the most important geopolitical events before, during, and after World War II.
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that recounted the history of the family and notable people buried in the family cemetery in Lattingtown. Two general interest books on the Underhill family,
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neglected graveyard" and how he "heard whilst there, of an intention to erect a Monument over the remains of 'Fighting John.'"
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