Brief Life History of Charles Edmund
When Charles Edmund Douglass was born on 31 January 1859, in Peacham, Caledonia, Vermont, United States, his father, Samuel M Douglass, was 24 and his mother, Martha Harriet Shepard, was 26. He married Nelly Maria Banker on 1 January 1883, in Thetford, Orange, Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He died on 27 March 1928, in Thetford, Orange, Vermont, United States, at the age of 69.
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- Charlie Douglass, "United States Census, 1860"
- Legacy NFS Source: Charles Edmund Douglas - Individual or family possessions: Cemetery record or headstone: birth:
- Charles E Douglass, "Vermont, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1732-2005"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1864 · St. Albans Raid
St. Albans Raid took place on October 19, 1864. It was a Confederate raid from Canada into Union territory. Confederate soldiers that were in Canada raided the town of St. Albans killed one person and robbed three banks.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
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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