When John Douglas was born on 9 June 1815, in Meigs, Orange Township, Meigs, Ohio, United States, his father, John F. Douglas Sr., was 29 and his mother, Eleanor Shepherd, was 31. He married Emaline French on 16 August 1838, in Scipio Township, Meigs, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 9 daughters. He lived in McLean, Kentucky, United States in 1860 and Ohio, United States in 1870. He died on 10 January 1892, in Scipio Township, Meigs, Ohio, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Wells Cemetery, Scipio Township, Meigs, Ohio, United States.
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The western part of Kentucky purchased by Andrew Jackson from the Chickasaw Indians in 1818. It became known as the Jackson Purchase. This included land that wasn't originally part of Kentucky when it became a state.
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
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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