Dr. Underhill, a Patriarch and a Man of Renown The Eclectic Magazine, in an April 1864 piece, praised Dr. Underhill as "a patriarch and a man of renown" among grape growers. The publication highlighted his fifty-acre Croton Point vineyards as the source of celebrated grapes known for their quality and sweetness. Thousands of grape baskets from his vineyard reached New York households annually, f…