About - Underwood Machinery Transport

Underwood was established in 1899 as Underwood Transfer Company founded by Andrew Underwood, an Irish immigrant, who came to the U.S. in the 1880s. Andrew was employed by Western Union to lay telegraph poles in the western part of the U. S. In the 1890s he settled in Indianapolis and built a stable to house mules, which he used to haul wagons that transported telephone poles around Indianapolis. In addition to renting mules to the city, Andrew used the mules and dray wagons to transport machinery received from the railroad yards and deliver them to factories in the area. With the advent of the motor truck, the company replaced mule transportation and became motorized. Andrew’s two sons, Donald and Edward, worked Underwood when their father passed away in the 1930s.