Frederick Douglas Underwood
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Most Influential Person Across History
American businessman
Why Is Frederick Douglas Underwood Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Frederick Douglas Underwood was president of the Erie Railroad from 1901 to 1926 and a director of Wells Fargo & Company. Early life Underwood was born in 1849 in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, the son of Enoch Downs Underwood and Harriet Flint Underwood. He attended the public schools of Wauwatosa and Wayland Academy, Beaver Dam, Wisconsin. In 1867 he entered the employ of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad, rising from clerk and brakeman to division superintendent.
