An Anthropologist's Arrival: A Memoir

Genealogy

ix Genealogy Maternal Grandfather: Robert Lindley Murray (1824–1874), born in Flushing, New York, a wool merchant, insurance agent, and Society of Friends minister. Maternal Grandmother: Ruth Sherman Taber Murray (1827–1907), born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and gave birth to eight children. Paternal Grandfather: Jesse Haight Underhill (1812–1896), a Quaker farmer descended from Captain John Underhill, who settled in New England in 1630. Paternal Grandmother: Eliza Sutton Underhill (1821–1906), lived in Ossining, New York, and had two children. Mother: Anna Taber Murray Underhill (1854–1919), from a prominent Quaker family after which New York City’s Murray Hill was named. Father: Abram Sutton Underhill (1852–1942), grew up on a farm near Chappaqua, New York, and became a successful lawyer. Sister: Margaret Underhill (1886–1970), Ruth’s beautiful sister, married Edward F. Barron and had a child. Brother: Robert Lindley Murray Underhill (1889–1983), earned a PhD from Harvard in 1916 and became a professor there with a specialty in logic; celebrated as a pioneering alpine mountaineer; married Miriam O’Brien in 1932 and had two sons, Robert and Brian. Sister: Elizabeth Sutton Underhill (1892–1982), a suffrage activist, graduated New York University Law School in 1921 and became first female bank director in Westchester County; unmarried. ...