When Thomas Jefferson Douglas was born in October 1863, in Hardin, Illinois, United States, his father, Jeremiah S Douglas, was 37 and his mother, Nancy Conner, was 36. He lived in Illinois, United States in 1870 and Richwood Precinct, Calhoun, Illinois, United States in 1880. He died on 8 January 1934, in Gallatin, Illinois, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Gold Hill Township, Gallatin, Illinois, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
In 1871, a cow kicked over a lantern, causing a fire that burned down half of Chicago. Today this city is the third largest in the US.
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
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.
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