Brief Life History of John Henry
When John Henry Douglass was born on 13 September 1854, in Middlesex Township, Butler, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, John Louis Douglass, was 26 and his mother, Martha Jane Anderson, was 24. He married Mary Ellen Rogers on 27 October 1885, in Johnson, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Johnson, Iowa, United States in 1895 and Scott Township, Johnson, Iowa, United States for about 10 years. He died in December 1925, in Iowa City, Johnson, Iowa, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Iowa City, Johnson, Iowa, United States.
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- John Douglass, "Iowa State Census, 1925"
- John H. Douglass, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"
- John Douglass in entry for Agnes Lippincott, "Iowa, Death Records, 1904-1951"
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1857 · The State Capital moves to Des Moines
The Capitol was located in Iowa City until the 1st General Assembly of Iowa recognized that the Capitol should be moved farther west than Iowa City. Land was found two miles from the Des Moines River to start construction of the new building. Today the Capitol building still stands on its original plot.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
Scottish and English (Durham and Northumbria): variant of Douglas .
History: William Douglass, a physician recognized for his identification and description of an epidemic of scarlet fever, was born c. 1691 in Gifford, Haddington County, Scotland, and settled in Boston in 1718. The abolitionist, orator, and journalist Frederick Douglass assumed the name after escaping from slavery in 1838 and traveling to Massachusetts. Son of a white father and a slave with some Indian blood, he was born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey c. 1817 in Tuckahoe, MD.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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