Brief Life History of Harry Clinton
When Harry Clinton Douglass was born on 26 October 1802, in Sumner, Tennessee, United States, his father, James Sewell Douglass, was 40 and his mother, Catherine Katesey Collier, was 31. He married Elizabeth Wynne "Bettie" Elliott on 18 December 1828, in Sumner, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 12 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Kaufman, Kaufman, Texas, United States in 1870 and Justice Precinct 1, San Saba, Texas, United States in 1880. He died on 11 August 1899, at the age of 96, and was buried in White Rose Cemetery, Van Zandt, Texas, United States.
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- Harry C Douglass, "United States Census, 1870"
- Harry C Douglass, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
- H C Douglass, "Find A Grave Index"
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1803
France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
1803
Historical Boundaries 1803: Louisiana Purchase, United States 1812: Missouri Territory, United States 1821: Missouri, United States
1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
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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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