Brief Life History of Volney Marx
When Volney Marx Douglas was born on 3 July 1908, in Sonoita, Santa Cruz, Arizona, United States, his father, Irvin Warren Douglas, was 45 and his mother, Maud Daisy Jacobs, was 27. He married Blanche Audrey Lawson on 19 October 1936, in Los Angeles, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Maricopa, Arizona, United States in 1950 and Arizona, United States in 1954. He died on 13 March 1977, in Tempe, Maricopa, Arizona, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Canelo, Santa Cruz, Arizona, United States.
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- Volney M Douglas, "United States 1950 Census"
- William Thomas Douglas, "Arizona, Birth Certificates and Indexes, 1855-1930"
- Volney Marx Douglas, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
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1909 · The NAACP is formed
Organized as a civil rights organization, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans. It is one of the oldest civil rights organizations in the nation.
1910 · The BSA is Made
Being modeled after the Boy Scout Association in England, The Boy Scouts of America is a program for young teens to learn traits, life and social skills, and many other things to remind the public about the general act of service and kindness to others.
1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
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.
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Volney Douglas Career Experience
**Volney M. Douglas** 1226 E. Rose Lane, Phoenix, Arizona July 3, 1908 Associate Appraiser **Narrative of Experience** I was born and raised on an Arizona livestock farm. I worked for two y …
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