When John Smart Douglas was born on 11 September 1828, in Howland, Penobscot, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Jeremiah Douglass, was 41 and his mother, Margaret Smart, was 40. He married Isabel Amanda Oakes on 23 March 1856. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Rutland, Dane, Wisconsin, United States in 1850 and Springville, Adams, Wisconsin, United States for about 45 years. He died on 30 January 1917, in Grand Rapids, Wood, Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Olin Cemetery, Adams, Wisconsin, United States.
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Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
Historical Boundaries: 1836: Dane, Wisconsin, United States
Historical Boundaries: 1856: Wood, Wisconsin, 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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