Brief Life History of James Madison
When James Madison Douglass was born in 1836, in Columbia, Boone, Missouri, United States, his father, James Harvey Douglass, was 25 and his mother, Elizabeth D Wash, was 21. He married Martha Jane Lee on 22 December 1864, in Lafayette, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Arkansas, United States in 1870 and Justice Precinct 3, Wise, Texas, United States in 1880. He died in 1881, in Wise, Texas, United States, at the age of 45.
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- James M Douglass in household of James H Douglass, "United States Census, 1850"
- James M Douglas, "Arkansas, County Marriages, 1837-1957"
- The Life of James Madison Douglass (1836-1881)
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1836 · Remember the Alamo
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.
1844 · German Immigration to Texas
Over 7,000 German immigrants arrived in Texas. Some of these new arrivals died in epidemics; those that survived ended up living in cities such as San Antonio, Galveston, and Houston. Other German settlers went to the Texas Hill Country and formed the western portion of the German Belt, where new towns were founded: New Braunfels and Fredericksburg.
1850 · Compromise of 1850
The United States Congress passed a package of five separate bills in an attempt to decrease tensions between the slave states and free states. The compromise itself was received gratefully, but both sides disapproved of certain components contained in the laws. Texas was impacted in several ways; mainly, the state surrendered its claim to New Mexico (and other claims north of 36°30′) but retained the Texas Panhandle. The federal government also took over the public debt for Texas.
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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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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