J. W. Douglass; Winn Parish, LA

Contributed by Greggory E. Davies

120 Ted Price Lane

Winnfield, LA  71483

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J. W. Douglass

Is a son of William M. Douglass, who was born and reared in Lockport, Niagara County, N.Y. 

He was a farmer.  He married Elizabeth Herspool in Hartland, N. Y., in 1851.  They have nine

children.  John was born in Hartland, N. Y. Nov. 13, 1868.  He was educated in Michigan, but

came to Louisiana six years ago.  



April 18, 1903, he married Miss Carrie Colvin, of the well known family, of Winn, Jackson, 

Union, and elsewhere.  They have two children.



Mr. Douglass is a lumberman and one of Winnfield's captains of industry, prudent, bold,

independent, amiable in manner and kind in spirit.  



He is manager for Douglas and Neill, whose mill is presented in another column.  Mr. Douglas is

a member of the M. E. Church South, also a Mason, Woodman, and a B. of L. F. and E.



For a young man Mr. Douglas is rather widely traveled and he has the most assuring confidence in

the material and spiritual development of this country. 



His motto:  "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."



(The above article was copied from The Guardian newspaper, Volume XXVII, No. 8-9, published

September-October, 1907 at Winnfield, La., and was taken from that issue which is on file at the

Watson Memorial Library, Cammie Henry Archives, Northwestern State University,

Natchitoches, La., and submitted by Greggory Ellis Davies., Winnfield, LA.)