Isaac W. Douglass

DOUGLASS, GAMBLE, WERTENBERGER, LUNDAHL, DEBORD

Posted By: Deborah Gilbert (email)
Date: 9/11/2016 at 14:14:35

Maxwell Book: 1883-1983

Isaac W. was the son of John and Mary Wertenberger Douglass and was born in 1866 and died in 1940. His wife, Addie, born in 1868 and died in 1959, was the daughter of John D. and Elizabeth Gamble. Both Isaac and Addie taught country schools before their marriage in 1892. Isaac was a graduate of University of Iowa College of Law and established in 1891 his practice in Maxwell. They had three children: Lucille was the Story County Superintendent of Schools at the time of her death in 1937; Dudley G. was a partner in the Douglass and Douglass Law Firm; Emlin was a salesman and farmer. The only descendants are Anne K. Lundahl, daughter of Dudley and Grace Debord Douglass and her two children David D. and Julie K.