Edward Oakes Douglas

December 1858–29 January 1936 (Age 77)
Springville, Adams, Wisconsin, United States

The Life Summary of Edward Oakes

When Edward Oakes Douglas was born in December 1858, in Springville, Adams, Wisconsin, United States, his father, John Smart Douglas, was 30 and his mother, Isabel Amanda Oakes, was 19. He married Hattie Angelia Morris on 23 April 1883, in Adams, Wisconsin, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 29 January 1936, in Springville, Adams, Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Olin Cemetery, Adams, Wisconsin, United States.

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Family Time Line

Edward Oakes Douglas
1858–1936
Hattie Angelia Morris
1863–1894
Marriage: 23 April 1883
May E Douglas
1877–
Henry Albert Douglas
1884–1957
Cecil John Douglas
1887–1950
Celia Belle Douglas
1887–1954
Rufus Llord Douglas
1892–1954
Hattie A. Douglas
1894–1966

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    23 April 1883Adams, Wisconsin, United States
    • Children

    (6)

    +1 More Child

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings

    (5)

    World Events (8)

    1863
    Age 5
    Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
    1867 · The First Successful Typewriter is Invented
    Age 9
    A patent was filed on October 11, 1867, on a new direct action typewriter. The patent was filed by Christopher Latham Sholes, Carlos Glidden, and Samuel Soule who had invented the prototype in Milwaukee.
    1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
    Age 23
    Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.

    Name Meaning

    Scottish: habitational name from any of various places called from their situation on a river named with Gaelic dubh ‘dark, black’ + glas ‘stream’ (a derivative of glas ‘blue’). There are several localities in Scotland and Ireland so named, but the one from which the surname is derived in most if not all cases is Douglas in Lanarkshire 20 miles south of Glasgow, the original stronghold of the influential Douglas family and their retainers.History: The family taking their name from Douglas in Lanarkshire were of Flemish origin. They rose to great prominence in the 14th and 15th centuries, controlling the earldoms of Douglas, Morton, and Angus, and later, Queensberry.

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

    Possible Related Names

    Douglass

    Sources (17)

    • Edward Oakes Douglas, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"
    • Edward Douglas in household of John Douglas, "United States Census, 1870"
    • Edward Oakes Douglass, "Wisconsin, County Marriages, 1836-1911"

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