My Genealogy Hound

JOHN J. DOUGLASS, farmer, post office Blythedale, is a son of Thomas and Margaret (Johnston) Douglass. His grandfather was a native of Scotland, and settled in Adams county, Pa., where the father of our subject was born, and when seven years of age came to this county and settled in this township, where he lived until his death, in 1859. His family consisted of seven children, four of whom are still living: Maria, Mrs. George Weddle, of Versailles township; Sidney J., widow of Joseph Gillespie; James, of Buena Vista, and John J., who was born on the homestead in 1811, and lived there until 1840, when he removed to his present place and engaged in the milling business until 1865, and has since carried on his present farm. In 1839 he was married to Mary, daughter of John and Mary (Orr) Patterson, who died in 1871, leaving seven children, as follows: Robert P. and Thomas P., of Pittsburgh; John S., a physician in Columbus, Ohio; James E., a merchant at Douglass station; William L., a farmer of this township; Elijah R., of Bradford, Pa; Margaret J., now Mrs. James H. McCune, of Alabama. Mr. Douglass was elected justice of the peace of Elizabeth township in 1870, and has since held that office. Douglass station, on the Pittsburgh, McKeesport & Youghiogheny railroad, was named in honor of him. Mr. Douglass is a member of the U. P. Church of Buena Vista.