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William Douglass (other)
William Douglass may refer to: *William Douglass (abolitionist) (1804–1862), American abolitionist and church community leader * William Douglass (engineer, born 1831) (1831–1923), engineer-in-chief for Trinity House and later for the Commissioners of Irish Lights *William Douglass (engineer) (1857–1913), Chief Engineer for the Commissioners of Irish Lights * William Douglass (physician) (1691–1752), physician and pamphleteer in Boston *Bill Douglass William Douglass (February 28, 1923 – December 19, 1994) was an American jazz drummer born in Sherman, Texas. Douglass relocated to Los Angeles when he was six months old,Bryant, 233. becoming in his adulthood a popular Los Angeles musician w ... (1923–1994), American jazz drummer * Klondike Douglass (William Bingham Douglass, 1872–1953), American Major League Baseball player * William Boone Douglass, lawyer, engineer, surveyor and genealogist See also * William Douglas (other) {{hndis, Douglass, William ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Douglass (abolitionist)
William Douglass (18041862) was an abolitionist and Episcopal priest. He preached for peace, racial equality, and education in the religious community. Early life Douglass was born in Baltimore, Maryland, to African-American parents who were not enslaved, although such was legal in Maryland at the time. He received his education from Rev. William Levington, who founded the St. James Church and School for African Americans in Baltimore, Maryland in 1824. While attending the St. James Church School, Douglass learned Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. Career Douglass became a Methodist preacher on Maryland's Eastern shore. On June 22, 1834, Maryland's bishop Stone ordained him an Episcopal deacon at St. Stephen's Church in Cecil County. Douglass then moved to Philadelphia to serve at the African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas The African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas (AECST) was founded in 1792 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as the first black Episcopal Church in the United Sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Douglass (engineer, Born 1831)
William Douglass (1831 – 10 March 1923) was for twenty-six years an engineer for Trinity House and engineer-in-chief to the Commissioners of Irish Lights from 1878 to 1900. He built a number of offshore lighthouses and was responsible for the design of the second Fastnet Rock lighthouse. Early life His father was Nicholas Douglass, who in 1839 was engaged by Trinity House in London as a constructive engineer, rising in the course of time to be its superintending engineer. His two sons, James and William, would accompany their father to his place of work from an early age. William, born in London, was apprenticed to Robert Stevenson, Civil Engineer working for the Northern Lighthouse Board. In 1847 Mr Nicholas Douglass was selected by his employers, Trinity House, to erect the first lighthouse on the Bishop Rock on the Isles of Scilly. The first attempt, designed by the engineer-in-chief, James Walker, decided on a tower comprising accommodation and a light on top of iron leg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Douglass (engineer)
William Tregarthen Douglass (1857–1913) was an engineer, from a lighthouse engineering family. He was a consulting engineer for lighthouse construction for several governments around the world. His father was Sir James Nicholas Douglass, and his uncle William and his grandfather Nicholas were also famous in lighthouse construction. Personal life Douglas married Ada James of Plymouth at Charles Church, Plymouth on 27 December 1881. Career William T Douglass was Assistant Engineer to Thomas Edmond in the construction of the fourth Eddystone Lighthouse and then superintendent of work after Edmond was called to other work. Douglass supervised the whole work of fitting up the internal arrangements of the new Eddystone LIghthouse, as well as dismantling and removing the upper portion of Smeaton's Tower, leaving the foundation intact. One of William Douglass's most impressive achievements was his supervision of the renovation and reinforcement of the Bishop Rock Lighthouse. Cons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Douglass (physician)
William Douglass (c. 1691–1752) was a physician in 18th-century Boston, Massachusetts, who wrote pamphlets on medicine, economics and politics that were often polemical. He was a central figure, along with Cotton Mather during the controversy surrounding the 1721 smallpox epidemic in Boston. Personal life Douglass was born in Gifford, East Lothian, Gifford, Scotland in about 1691. Douglass studied at University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh (MA, 1705), Leyden, Paris, and University of Utrecht, Utrecht, where he received his MD in 1712. He first arrived in Boston in 1716, with letters of introduction to Increase Mather, Cotton Mather and Benjamin Colman. After travelling in the West Indies, Douglass returned to Boston in 1718, where he lived for the rest of his life.Bullock:266 Douglass prospered in Boston, and put his money into property, both in the city and in remote parts of the Massachusetts Bay colony. Although he owned houses in Boston, he lived at the Green Dragon Tavern, which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Douglass
William Douglass (February 28, 1923 – December 19, 1994) was an American jazz drummer born in Sherman, Texas. Douglass relocated to Los Angeles when he was six months old,Bryant, 233. becoming in his adulthood a popular Los Angeles musician who worked shows and sessions. Douglass provided drums for notable instrumentalists such as Benny Goodman and Ben Webster, as well as providing backing for vocalists such as Lena Horne and June Christy. He was also known for his work in the American Federation of Musicians, where he was an active proponent of desegregation. He held offices in local unions both before and after their racial integration. Early childhood Six months after Douglass was born in Sherman, Texas, his extended family relocated to Los Angeles in an effort to escape Jim Crow laws. A member of a musical family, Douglass took an early interest in music. He cited as a pivotal moment in his life when he first heard Benny Goodman's drummer Gene Krupa performing "Sing, S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klondike Douglass
William Bingham "Klondike" Douglass (May 10, 1872 – December 13, 1953) was an American Major League Baseball player who split his time between first base, and at catcher for the St. Louis Browns and the Philadelphia Phillies from 1896 to 1904. A good hitter, he had a career batting average of .274, including a high of .329 in 1897. Early life Born in Boston, Pennsylvania, Douglass was raised in Wellsville, Missouri. He played independent baseball in Missouri before ascending to professional baseball. Douglass played in the minor leagues only briefly, appearing as a player-manager for the 1895 Sherman Orphans of the Texas-Southern League. MLB career Douglass was a left fielder when he debuted for the St. Louis Browns in 1896, but he registered a fielding percentage of only .894, and the team moved him to catcher the next season. Douglass was sent to Philadelphia in a multiplayer trade before the 1898 season, and he became the team's first baseman. Promising infielder Nap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Boone Douglass
William Boone Douglass was a lawyer, engineer, surveyor, genealogist, and founding President of the Boone Family Association. Earlier in his engineering career, he was active in New Mexico both as an engineer and as an anthropologist. He made a particular study of the prehistoric homes of the Tewa and other Pueblo peoples of New Mexico, and was instrumental in the protection of the shrine on Redondo Peak Redondo Peak is a conspicuous summit in the Jemez Mountains of New Mexico, in the southwestern United States. It is located entirely within the Valles Caldera National Preserve. It is the second highest summit in the Jemez after Chicoma Mountain. ..., sacred to the Pueblo. On August 14, 1909, Douglass, then Examiner of Surveys of the General Land Office, discovered the world's greatest natural bridge, in southern Utah, which he named "The Rainbow Natural Bridge." Family Born in Corydon, Indiana, USA on 30 June 1864, he was the son and eldest child of Judge Benjamin Penn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
