Charles Remond Douglass
 Charles
Remond Douglass (October 21, 1844 – November 23, 1920) is the third
and youngest son of abolitionist
Frederick Douglass and his
first wife Anna Murray Douglass. He was the first African-American
man to enlist in the military in New York during the Civil War, and
served as one of the first African-American clerks in the Freedmen's
Bureau in Washington, DC.
When the
family moved to Rochester four years later, he entered into the
school system. Later he helped his father by helping with the
delivery of the abolitionist newspaper, North Star. He also briefly
was a messenger for the abolitionist John Brown.
In
1863, Charles Douglass enlisted in the Union Army, in which he
served for 13 months.
After the war, he held various
government posts, including a first class clerkship in the War
Department. In 1871 he was appointed U.S. Consul to Santo Domingo.
Later he became involved in the School Board and the militia in
Washington D.C., and also engaged in newspaper work.
In 1866 he married Mary Elizabeth Murphy, also known as Libbie. The
couple had six children: Charles Frederick, Joseph Henry, Annie
Elizabeth, Julia Ada, Mary Louise, and Edward Douglass. Of these
six, Joseph Henry was the only one to live to adulthood, becoming a
famous violinist. Douglass and his wife were married until her death
in 1879. On December 30, 1880, Douglass married his second wife,
Laura Haley Canandaigua. The couple had one son together, Haley
George Douglass, who became a school teacher at Dunbar High School
in Washington, DC, and mayor of Highland Beach, Maryland.
Charles
Douglass was the model for the monument to his father which stands
in Rochester, N.Y.
Douglass died in Washington, D.C., on November 23, 1920, (age 76)
after a short illness attributed to Bright's disease. He was buried
at Columbian Harmony Cemetery in Washington, D.C., on November 26.
He was survived by his wife Laura, and his two sons Joseph Douglass
and Haley George.
One of his brothers was Lewis Henry Douglass.
Sources
Sources for this article include:
• Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619–1895: From the
Colonial Period to the Age of Frederick Douglass. Oxford University
Press
• "C.R. Douglass Dies". The Evening Star. 24th November 1920
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