From Ethel Ingalls, correspondent, [email protected]
I can trace the Douglass history back to Scotland, County of Nairn. Alexander Douglass and his wife, Christian (Grant) left Scotland with eight children and arrived in Boston on the day of the Boston Tea Party in 1773.
Five of the eight children died at sea. Of the three remaining, James returned to England and was a successful wine merchant, Christina/Catherine married a fellow immigrant and moved to Iowa (I have not found her yet) and
John fought in the Revolutionary War, settled in Montgomery Co, NY, and started a family in 1791. Eventually John had nine children. Four sons settled in Northern New York. One son and four daughters moved in 1824 with John and his (1st or 2nd?) wife Patience to Halton County, Ontario. The son
who moved to Canada, Robert, was Charles Douglass' grandfather. Robert farmed the land that John bought in Halton County until 1857 when he moved to Winterbourne, and then in 1864 to Port Elgin. Robert's son William, Charles'
father, moved to Port Elgin after he married and farmed with his father until he had a stroke in 1885. William died in 1888. The family continued to live on the farm until 1896 when the house burned, at which time they sold the
property and moved to Chicago, where Charles' oldest brother had already moved. Charles would have been 15 when he moved to Chicago. Just when he moved to Yakima is unknown. But in 1918 when he registered for the draft he
was living in Yakima. He married his first wife Pansy Holmes in Chicago, date unknown. She died Mar. 19, 1922.
Charles and his brother William S. Douglass were partners in the Emporium Dry Goods Co. in Yakima from about 1915 until 1926. When they went out of business, Wm. left the area, but Charles stayed and worked at various jobs,
one selling insurance, until he died in 1964. Both he and Gertrude are buried in the Terrace Heights cemetery in Yakima.
First wife, Pansy Holmes
Married 1903 in Chicago
.
I can trace the Douglass history back to Scotland, County of Nairn. Alexander Douglass and his wife, Christian (Grant) left Scotland with eight children and arrived in Boston on the day of the Boston Tea Party in 1773.
Five of the eight children died at sea. Of the three remaining, James returned to England and was a successful wine merchant, Christina/Catherine married a fellow immigrant and moved to Iowa (I have not found her yet) and
John fought in the Revolutionary War, settled in Montgomery Co, NY, and started a family in 1791. Eventually John had nine children. Four sons settled in Northern New York. One son and four daughters moved in 1824 with John and his (1st or 2nd?) wife Patience to Halton County, Ontario. The son
who moved to Canada, Robert, was Charles Douglass' grandfather. Robert farmed the land that John bought in Halton County until 1857 when he moved to Winterbourne, and then in 1864 to Port Elgin. Robert's son William, Charles'
father, moved to Port Elgin after he married and farmed with his father until he had a stroke in 1885. William died in 1888. The family continued to live on the farm until 1896 when the house burned, at which time they sold the
property and moved to Chicago, where Charles' oldest brother had already moved. Charles would have been 15 when he moved to Chicago. Just when he moved to Yakima is unknown. But in 1918 when he registered for the draft he
was living in Yakima. He married his first wife Pansy Holmes in Chicago, date unknown. She died Mar. 19, 1922.
Charles and his brother William S. Douglass were partners in the Emporium Dry Goods Co. in Yakima from about 1915 until 1926. When they went out of business, Wm. left the area, but Charles stayed and worked at various jobs,
one selling insurance, until he died in 1964. Both he and Gertrude are buried in the Terrace Heights cemetery in Yakima.
First wife, Pansy Holmes
Married 1903 in Chicago
.
From Ethel Ingalls, correspondent, [email protected]
I can trace the Douglass history back to Scotland, County of Nairn. Alexander Douglass and his wife, Christian (Grant) left Scotland with eight children and arrived in Boston on the day of the Boston Tea Party in 1773.
Five of the eight children died at sea. Of the three remaining, James returned to England and was a successful wine merchant, Christina/Catherine married a fellow immigrant and moved to Iowa (I have not found her yet) and
John fought in the Revolutionary War, settled in Montgomery Co, NY, and started a family in 1791. Eventually John had nine children. Four sons settled in Northern New York. One son and four daughters moved in 1824 with John and his (1st or 2nd?) wife Patience to Halton County, Ontario. The son
who moved to Canada, Robert, was Charles Douglass' grandfather. Robert farmed the land that John bought in Halton County until 1857 when he moved to Winterbourne, and then in 1864 to Port Elgin. Robert's son William, Charles'
father, moved to Port Elgin after he married and farmed with his father until he had a stroke in 1885. William died in 1888. The family continued to live on the farm until 1896 when the house burned, at which time they sold the
property and moved to Chicago, where Charles' oldest brother had already moved. Charles would have been 15 when he moved to Chicago. Just when he moved to Yakima is unknown. But in 1918 when he registered for the draft he
was living in Yakima. He married his first wife Pansy Holmes in Chicago, date unknown. She died Mar. 19, 1922.
Charles and his brother William S. Douglass were partners in the Emporium Dry Goods Co. in Yakima from about 1915 until 1926. When they went out of business, Wm. left the area, but Charles stayed and worked at various jobs,
one selling insurance, until he died in 1964. Both he and Gertrude are buried in the Terrace Heights cemetery in Yakima.
First wife, Pansy Holmes
Married 1903 in Chicago
.
I can trace the Douglass history back to Scotland, County of Nairn. Alexander Douglass and his wife, Christian (Grant) left Scotland with eight children and arrived in Boston on the day of the Boston Tea Party in 1773.
Five of the eight children died at sea. Of the three remaining, James returned to England and was a successful wine merchant, Christina/Catherine married a fellow immigrant and moved to Iowa (I have not found her yet) and
John fought in the Revolutionary War, settled in Montgomery Co, NY, and started a family in 1791. Eventually John had nine children. Four sons settled in Northern New York. One son and four daughters moved in 1824 with John and his (1st or 2nd?) wife Patience to Halton County, Ontario. The son
who moved to Canada, Robert, was Charles Douglass' grandfather. Robert farmed the land that John bought in Halton County until 1857 when he moved to Winterbourne, and then in 1864 to Port Elgin. Robert's son William, Charles'
father, moved to Port Elgin after he married and farmed with his father until he had a stroke in 1885. William died in 1888. The family continued to live on the farm until 1896 when the house burned, at which time they sold the
property and moved to Chicago, where Charles' oldest brother had already moved. Charles would have been 15 when he moved to Chicago. Just when he moved to Yakima is unknown. But in 1918 when he registered for the draft he
was living in Yakima. He married his first wife Pansy Holmes in Chicago, date unknown. She died Mar. 19, 1922.
Charles and his brother William S. Douglass were partners in the Emporium Dry Goods Co. in Yakima from about 1915 until 1926. When they went out of business, Wm. left the area, but Charles stayed and worked at various jobs,
one selling insurance, until he died in 1964. Both he and Gertrude are buried in the Terrace Heights cemetery in Yakima.
First wife, Pansy Holmes
Married 1903 in Chicago
.
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