James E. Douglass and Lizzie May Nicholls

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Husband James E. Douglass ^{1 2}

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           Born: 8 Jan 1851 - Elizabeth Twp, Allegheny Co, PA 2
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         Father: John J. Douglass (1811-1894) 1 2 3
         Mother: Mary Patterson (1817-1871) 1 2

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       Marriage: 3 Oct 1889 4

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Wife Lizzie May Nicholls ⁴

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Children

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1 M Harry Stantley Douglass ⁴

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           Born: 24 Jun 1890 4
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2 M David R. Douglass ⁴

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           Born: 20 Apr 1892 4
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3 F Margaret M. Douglass ⁴

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           Born: 29 Jun 1895 4
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4 M James Gordon Douglass ⁴

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           Born: 8 May 1898 4
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General Notes: Husband - James E. Douglass

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He grew up and was educated in the place of his birth, attending public schools. At the age of twenty years he left the farm and learned the trade of carpenter, at which he worked for ten years. In 1883 he engaged in the mercantile business at Douglass, and was identified with same for twenty-one years. During a portion of this time he was postmaster and ticket and express agent for the P. and L. E. Railroad. In 1904 he sold his business to the Federal Supply Company, and removed to West Newton. He organized the Douglass Coal Company in 1892, and was one of the well known coal operators of this state until 1899, when he sold the mines to the Pittsburg Coal Company; he retained the residence properties, numbering some fourteen houses. He organized the Douglass Raugh Coal and Coke Company, in 1904, acquiring four thousand acres of land with valuable coal veins in Clarksburg, West Virginia. This included a seven foot vein of Pittsburg coal. In addition to these interests he owned sixty-one valuable building lots in McKeesport, was one of the organizers of the First National Bank of West Newton, and the Hazelwood bank of Pittsburgh, and two other well known banks, and was one of the promoters of the Newton and Webster street railway line. He was a Republican and was a member of Dallas Lodge, No. 508, F. and A. M., of Pittsburgh; Zernbable Chapter, No. 162, R. A. M., of Pittsburgh; Pennsylvania Consistory and Syria Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., of Pittsburgh. [HWC 1906 ii, 260]

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General Notes: Wife - Lizzie May Nicholls

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from Elizabeth Twp, Allegheny Co, PA

1 Editor, 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 261.