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 Pennebaker Douglass (teacher, merchant, attorney, and politician) and Queen Victoria Boone. He married Alvira Luckett (called Allie), daughter of Hiram and Amanda Luckett. They had 4 children, Marguerite Douglass; Dorothy Douglass; Maude Douglass and William Douglass.
References
People from Corydon, Indiana
American surveyors
People from New Mexico
American anthropologists
American genealogists
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