Judge Eugene Douglass
One of the representative citizens of Manteca, San
Joaquin County, is E. E. Douglass, justice of the peace of Castoria
Township since 1918, who has been identified with the varied
interests of the town and county for a period of eleven years. He
was born at Morristown, Vermont, on March 30, 1886 the son of Albert
and Ellen F. (Baker) Douglass, both natives of the same place. The
Douglass family in America dates back to the Scotchman known as
Black Douglass, a general in the Continental Army during the
Revolutionary War. Frank Douglass, superintendent of the U. S. mails
at Boston, Massachusetts, is a cousin of our subject. Douglass
Castle still stands in northern Scotland, a monument to the early
members of this illustrious family. The father, Albert Douglass, was
a farmer by occupation and from 1870 to 1880 rode the range in the
Middle West, after which he returned to Vermont, where he married
Miss Ellen F. Baker, and there they reared their family. The father
passed away in 1915, and is survived by his widow who resides in the
old home in Vermont. During 1917 and 1918 she visited her son, our
subject, at Manteca.
E. E. Douglass received a good education in the schools of
Morristown, Vermont, and remained at home until he was twenty-one,
when he came to California, arriving at Stockton in March, 1907. He
found work on the Woodward ranch near Lathrop and five months later
he returned to Stockton, where he took and passed the civil service
examination and served as a clerk in the Stockton post office for
three years. Then he resigned his position and became a salesman for
Hodgkins & Stitt, real estate and insurance brokers at Stockton,
where he remained until 1911, when with a partner, he established
himself at Manteca on Yosemite Avenue, the firm being known as
Woodward & Douglass from 1911 to 1914. In 1911 and 1912 this company
put on the Overshiner Addition to Manteca. In 1914 the partnership
was dissolved and then Mr. Douglass organized the E. E. Douglass
Company and for the following three years was actively engaged in
construction work, among his contracts being the Treder Building,
Hotel Waldorf, Dr. Goodal’s residence, and almost a hundred other
structures in Manteca and environs. Mr. Douglass had the opportunity
of reading law with Anthony W. H. Wall, and since being elected to
the office of justice of the peace in 1918, his knowledge of law has
been invaluable to him; during the same year he reopened his real
estate office.
The marriage of Mr. Douglass occurred in 1912 and united him
with Miss Ada Griffin, a native Californian, born near Corona, a
daughter of Mrs. J. J. Rawleigh of Manteca, and they are the parents
of three children: Frances, Dorothea and Donald. In 1920 Mr.
Douglass was appointed clerk of the board of trustees of the Manteca
grammar school and in April, 1921 he was elected for a term of three
years; he also was appointed city recorder in 1920, and still
serves. He is president of the Masonic Temple Association of Manteca
and since 1920 has served as secretary of the Associated Charities.
In politics he is a Republican and a member of the county central
committee, also a member of the Lions Club of Manteca; he is also a
liberal contributor to the Union Church at Manteca and belongs to
Tyrian Lodge No. 439, F. and A. M. of Manteca.
Source:
Tinkham, George H., History of San Joaquin County, California ,
Pages 1364. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic Record Co., 1923.
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