When Joseph Smith Douglass was born on 22 May 1855, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, William Douglass, was 36 and his mother, Agnes Cross, was 37. He married Julia Janette Smith on 25 October 1875, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Utah, United States in 1870. He died on 19 December 1919, in Payson, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Payson, Utah, Utah, United States.
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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.
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Possible Related NamesHere is Joseph Smith Douglas' mission journal. I scanned it in, but it is too large of a file to upload, so this is the link to it: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzHLSyarpOB0NVg2RXJrQVFZYXc/view?us …
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