John J. Douglass and Mary Patterson

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Husband John J. Douglass ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 13 Jan 1811 - Elizabeth Twp, Allegheny Co, PA 1 4
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           Died: 14 Sep 1894 4
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         Father: Thomas Douglass (      -1859) 3 4 5
         Mother: Margaret Johnston (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage: 1839 1

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Wife Mary Patterson ^{1 2}

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           Born: 4 Apr 1817 - Rostraver Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 4
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           Died: 26 Aug 1871 1 4
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         Father: John R. Patterson (1774-1868) 1 4 6
         Mother: Mary Orr (1791-1853) 1 4 6

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Children

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1 M Robert P. Douglass ^{1 2}

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2 M Thomas P. Douglass ^{1 4}

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3 M John S. Douglass, M.D. ^{1 4}

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4 M James E. Douglass ^{1 2}

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           Born: 8 Jan 1851 - Elizabeth Twp, Allegheny Co, PA 2
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         Spouse: Lizzie May Nicholls (      -      ) 7
           Marr: 3 Oct 1889 7

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5 M William L. Douglass ¹

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6 M Elijah R. Douglass ^{1 4}

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7 F Margaret J. Douglass ^{1 4}

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         Spouse: James H. McCune (      -      ) 1 4

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General Notes: Husband - John J. Douglass

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He was born on the family homestead and lived there until 1840, when he removed to his own place and engaged in the milling business until 1865, and then carried on a farm.
He was elected justice of the peace of Elizabeth township in 1870. Douglass station, on the Pittsburgh, McKeesport & Youghiogheny railroad, was named in honor of him. He was a member of the U. P. Church of Buena Vista.

He and his wife had a family of twelve children; six were still living in 1906.

He was born in Elizabeth township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, near Buena Vista, within three miles of where he spent the last fifty-four years of his life. He learned the trade of cooper in early life, but followed it only a short time. In 1838 he bought land at Douglass and moved there, and two years later purchased a grist mill which he operated for many years. During the war, in which his sons were fighting for the Union, it burned to the ground, at the time when his insurance had just expired, and he was compelled to buy flour for the family supply when that commodity was selling at eighteen dollars a barrel. He was a staunch Republican in politics, but never a bigoted partisan, and for twenty years was justice of the peace, a fact which gained for him the appellation of Squire Douglass, a name which clung to him long after he had retired from the office. During the greater part of his life he was a member of the United Presbyterian church, but four years prior to his death joined the Presbyterian church and was an honored elder at the time of his death. His generous disposition, often imposed upon but never narrowed, reduced his worldly possessions but gained him a respect and admiration that made him greatly mourned when his death occurred. [HWC 1906 ii, 260]

1 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 576.

2 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 259.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 980.

4 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 260.

5 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 334, 576.

6 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 310.

7 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 261.