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Kyne began life as a sort of underclerk with the San Francisco headquarters of Dolbeer & Carson.

From Time Magazine Archive

While an underclerk in the War Office, he sympathized with our fathers in their struggle for independence.

From The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 4 of 4 by American Anti-Slavery Society

Mr. Greenhithe was an underclerk in the Internal Improvement Bureau, who had shown an amount of attention to Miss Matty, which she had disliked and had refused to receive.

From The Brick Moon and Other Stories by Hale, Edward Everett

An underclerk of the Treasury, a man of no extraction, accused me of a fraud, in executing the late regulations for the distribution of corn to the poor.

From The Nephews: A Play, in Five Acts. by Iffland, August Wilhelm

In the same year Pont-Gravé traded at Three Rivers, and he was assisted by two clerks called Loquin and Caumont, and an underclerk, Rouvier.

From The Makers of Canada: Champlain by Dionne, N.-E. (Narcisse-Eutrope)