George A. Douglas

DOUGLAS, ROBERTS, MEECH

Posted By: C Swearingen (email)
Date: 2/12/2007 at 21:41:06

George A. Douglas, the present County Auditor, was born in Remsen, Oneida County, N.Y., March 19, 1845, and is the son of Samuel and Emily (Roberts) Douglas. Our subject, at the age of eighteen, removed to Hampton, N.Y., and engaged as a clerk in a store, and there and in Utica remained until 1867, when he came to Onawa, and entered into partnership with R.G. Fairchild, and continued in the mercantile trade until 1882. The fall of 1883 he was elected Auditor, and still holds that office. Mr. Douglas was married September 1, 1870, to Miss E.J.V. Meech, who died July 25, 1876. She was the mother of one child, that died when but eight days old.

Source: History of Monona County Iowa
Chicago National Pub. Co. 1890