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Douglass (surname)
Douglass is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Abel Douglass (before 1849 â c. 1907), American whaler * A. E. Douglass (1867â1962), American astronomer * Astyanax Douglass (1897â1975), Major League Baseball catcher for the Cincinnati Reds * Bill Douglass (1923â1994), American jazz drummer * Bobby Douglass (born 1947), American football quarterback for the Chicago Bears * Brooks Douglass (1963-2020), American lawyer, politician, and actor * Charles Douglass (1910â2003), American sound engineer, credited as the inventor of the laugh track * Charles Remond Douglass (1844â1920), African-American clerk and soldier * Dale Douglass (1936â2022), American professional golfer * David Douglass (physicist), American physicist * David Douglass (1720-1786), British-American stage actor and theatre manager * David John Douglass, British trade unionist, political activist and writer * Dorothea Lambert Chambers (nÊe Douglass, 1878â1960), English tennis player ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abel Douglass
Abel Douglass (1841â1908) was an American whaling captain. Douglass born in 1841 in Maine as part of a seafaring maritime family. Career In the 1860s, Douglass partnered with James Dawson. The Dawson and Douglass Whaling Company worked off the coast of British Columbia. The non-Native whaling industry in British Columbia began when Dawson and Douglass took eight whales from Saanich Inlet in 1868. Dawson and Douglass founded Whaletown, British Columbia, Whaletown in 1869 as a whaling station on Cortes Island. The Whaletown operation was later moved to what is now called Whaling Station Bay on Hornby Island; the Dawson and Douglass Company merged with the Lipsett Whaling Company to form the British Columbia Whaling Company, but the company closed in 1871. Personal life Douglass had a Common-law marriage, common-law relationship with Maria Mahoi, who was of Hawaiian and First Nations in Canada, First Nations descent; they lived with their seven children on Saltspring Island. Mahoi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |